Obama Takes a Bow
Posted on November 14, 2009
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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.
Maybe it’s time for Valerie Jarrett to speak truth to bower.
I suspect the poor Emperor was so shocked by the faux pas that he just pretended it didn’t happen. That is one way Japanese people deal with breaches of etiquette, especially from the powerful, who are also ignorant. But the end result is that Obama has been snubbed royally. Imperially, in fact.
All in all, a disgrace. The only redeeming feature is that at least he did not bow his head and bend his knee, as he did with the Saudi monarch.
In any case, Obama claims that his youthful encounters with Asia make him “America’s first Pacific President.” What of William Howard Taft, who served his nation from 1901 to 1903 as the first civilian Governor-General of the Philippines, with great dedication and considerable success? And what of John F. Kennedy and George H. W. Bush, who, four decades later, served their country in the Pacific Theater with great distinction. Don’t they qualify–more than Barack Obama–as “Pacific Presidents?”
But then again, none of them bowed to emperors.
Michelle Malkin sees a pattern.
Jim Hoft says its just too familiar.
Let’s hope he bends over this easily in 2012 so we can kick his sorry azz out of the WH where it never belonged in the first place. Hail the boy media king obsessed with his image and determined to destroy the country’s economy just as the media all but destroyed its culture before hand. By 2012, it’ll be well past time to take it back and we can get a good start on it in 2010. Be sure to remember that! Don’t get mad, get engaged in our political process. If O-Bow-Now can’t stand up for America, it falls to us to do it. No one else can, or will.
This is expected of a gutless wonder, a child king with big talk but little action. A fooking disgrace to Americans everywhere he treads.
* American Digest, “If a US President Had Just Done This in January 1942 It Would Have Saved Everyone a Lot of Trouble.”
Another Black Conservative, “Bow Wow! Obama Bows Again.”
* Astute Bloggers, “FOR BOWING DOWN TO ANOTHER FOREIGN KING, OBAMA HAS ONCE AGAIN PROVEN HE IS UNFIT FOR OFFICE AND NEEDS TO BE EFFIN IMPEACHED.”
* Atlas Shrugs, “Obowa: Another Country, Another Deep Bow.”
* Berman Post, “Obama Bows to The Emperor of Japan.”
* The Blog Prof, “Video: Obama Drops Yet Another Contact Lens in Front of Royalty.”
* Chicks on the Right, “Inappropriate.”
* Confederate Yankee, “O-Bow-Ma.”
* Don Surber, “Obama, Bow Wow Wow.”
* Fausta’s Blog, “Say No to the Bow.”
* Hot Air, “Obamateurism of the Day.”
* Hot Air Pundit, “Video: Obama Bows To The Emperor Of Japan.”
* Left Coast Rebel, “Obama Bowing to Japan Emperor AkihitoPresident “O-Bow” to Anyone.”
* Maggie’s Farm, “Life Imitates Satire.”
* Neo-Neocon, “Obama: “Ashamed of His Country but Arrogant About Himself”.”
* Nice Deb, “Obama Bows Yet Again.”
* Protein Wisdom, “Obama “Bows Deeply” – UPDATED: Attention Leftists!.”
* Ruby Slippers, “Take a Bow Barack.”
* Sandra Rose, “OBAMA BOWS DOWN AGAIN.”
* Snooper’s Report, “The Bowing Moron In the Marxist House…He’s An ASSHAT.”
* Sister Toldjah, “I Guess This Wasn’t Really a “Bow” Either, Eh, Mr. President?“
*Sweetness and Light, “Obama Bows Again – Japanese Emperor.”
* Weasel Zippers, “Does Obama Think He ONLY Represents America When He Bows Inferiorly?: BO Bows Again..This Time To Emporer of Japan, Akihito…(Please Bring Your Best Snark).”
*WyBlog, “Obama bows before Japanese Emperor Akihito.”
Definitely doesn’t pass the Reagan smell test:
Big hat tip to American Power! via Rightwing News!
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Bowrack Obama.
Obama is a national disgrace, pitiful, just pitiful.
Obama is hardly an alpha male. Maybe an epsilon, at best.
Brokeback Obama.
Give the guy a break! He’s checking the emporer’s shoe shine.
No, really.
Wow… you people are arrogant as all get-out. Just because you believe in American-exceptionalism, as do I, doesn’t mean you don’t show respect for other cultures… Oh wait, to you, it does mean exactly that.
Jenn- you are an Idiot.
Just ask any of the hundreds of people who’s comments I have been seeing this morning, all of whom have experience in Japan.
He is bowing like a servant to a Superior. Even the Japanese are shocked by his actions.
When I saw that photo, I knew the wingnuts would jump all over it. Thanks for not disappointing.
The bow seemed a bit deeper than necessary, and perhaps it wasn’t necessary at all, but the symbolic freight you all are attaching to it is hilarious.
When he’s in China, if he should attempt to say a few words in Chinese, will you scream “Obama thinks China is the Central Nation!” if he uses the Chinese term for China?
No Otter, I’m not an idiot. I have had experience in Japan but I don’t suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome either, so I see it as a sign of respect for another culture. Of course, as the right-wingers have completely lost their minds since the election, you would see anything Obama does as worthy of criticism. He could have shook the Emperor’s hand and people would be losing it that he didn’t bow. You all are in for a VERY LONG 3 (at least!) years. You really should pace your outrage.
Right on BC.
I voted for obama but I will not be voting for him again. He seems so much out of depth when it comes to the world stage.
Not one leader bowed and yet he does.
He never did it to the Queen of Britain and yet he does it to Saudi and Japan.
If anyone knows Japans culture then they will know that a deep bow like this is a sign of saying I am at your service master.
Obama needs to get his foreign policy in order as of right now he looks like a duck out of water,
The wars, what the generals ask for etc are being looked at by the world and obama is dong nothing but wasting time and not helping my brother over there or any of the troops.
To think I got suckered in to the obama speeches and thought he might bring good change like working on both sides and being tough on terrorists, How wrong I was
I agree its shocking to hear that he bowed down to the Japanese Emporer but of course it was out of respect… jeez get a grip people.
as an american saint of God im not hummbled to bow down to tyrants and dictaters in any shape or form but i will pray for them and pray that obama will stay standing up and see the enemy for who and what they are. GOD BLESS AMERICA, AMEN.
reading all the stupidity that people write, I can understand why many people from others country hate America. You need to read more about others culture and learn to behave and most important to show more respect for our president.
Mountains out of molehills. In this case, a whole mountain range out of a tiny molehill.
If you want people to take this seriously, stop trying to blow it way out of proportion and start a real debate about it.
Just proves why a certain animal was chosen to represent the tax and spend party.
Remember,.. this guy thinks we have 57 states, the media at large won’t do what they did to his predecessor.
This guy is far worse than Richard M Nixon!