They say the eyes are the windows of the soul. Perhaps he’s afraid that if he looks one of us in the eyes, we might detect that much like the empty chair, there’s no soul there. (just a guess)
“It’s harder to lie when looking one in the eye.”
I seem to recall folks saying the same thing about Hillary and that she demanded that her staff not look her in the eyes or something like that. Guess her and Obama have that in common.
Obama’s eyes have always looked ‘cold’ to me, and I agree about Hillary. She also moves her eyes all around when talking, never seems to look directly at people.