Again, with the bowing?!?

on a tip from my newly-single friend, Eric

Why is this man bowing?

November 14, 2009 Posted by Scott at 7:06 AM

We criticized Barack Obama when he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. Americans do not bow to royalty. When the royal is the ruling tyrant of a despotic regime, the wrong is compounded. Obama's bowing to the King was deeply offensive.

When the story emerged from the shadows of the Internet, Ben Smith ran an item on Politico with the White House denying the bow. "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Bill O'Reilly ran a bemused segment on it once the White House denied what Obama had done.

A reporter asked Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs about the bow. Under his own name and on the record, Gibbs denied what any fool could see. Indeed, one astute observer commented on CNN that "Ray Charles could see that he bowed."

Obama has now done it again. Andrew Malcolm asks (and reports): "How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow."

Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same plane as other regimes based on tribal privilege and royal bloodlines. He gives expressive form to the idea that the United States now willingly prostrates itself before the rest of the world. He declares that the United States is a country like any other, only worse, because we have so much for which to apologize.

This makes me sick. I mean, really, when I saw it, I felt like throwing up. He can't be bothered to put his hand over his heart for his own country but he just loves to bow to foreign monarchs?

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[Reasonsjester]

Check out this vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6fL7Y4BZA) with about 40 foreign dignitaries SHAKING HANDS with the Japanese emperor and the "jackass" Obama bowing like he is a serving girl bringing him sake. Disgraceful.