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Why is he bowing to the Japanese Emperor Akihito?
Reuters photo ^ | 11-14-09

Posted on 11/13/2009 9:10:01 PM PST by STARWISE



TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 538obowma; apology; asiantripfailure; bambow; bho44; bhoasia; bhovisit; booboo; bow; bowbow; bowwow; emperorakihito; fauxpas; fealty; ignorance; impeachobama; japan; kowtow; obama; obamabow; obowa; obowma; overdoingit; overdone; pl; weakkneed
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To: kevao
Well you would have to put up a few shekels!

LOL.

261 posted on 11/14/2009 12:35:51 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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Anyway, payback is a bitch.


262 posted on 11/14/2009 12:37:26 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: Candor7

Zer0 after a run on the US Dollar has run its course.

263 posted on 11/14/2009 12:38:34 AM PST by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: STARWISE

I don’t know starwise, I don’t think his back was straight enough.


264 posted on 11/14/2009 12:39:52 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Candor7
OK, here is footage of the whole incident, including the arrival by limousine. Link may be good for only a short time and expire shortly, may not play on all PC systems:

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/jnn/20091114/20091114-00000025-jnn-soci.html

Click picture to stream video.

Japanese news reports "fukubuka to ojigi shimashita", or "a deep, deep bow" but avoided any kind of editorialization. I kind of thought he looked rather awkward in international diplomatic culture/protocol affairs as a result of this video from JNN News.

265 posted on 11/14/2009 12:40:37 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: The kind of American "clinging bitterly to religion and guns" FBI/DHS WON'T go after!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; Candor7
Thank you both for all of the insight you have brought to this thread. The implications certainly have been exposed here and they are not insignificant.

I take from both of your answers to my last question that the social faux pas will stand out like a sore thumb to most all Japanese but if they have anything to say about the geopolitical ramifications in the press it will be subdued and limited to Japanese language press.

That will save our press from having to recognize reality. Again.

266 posted on 11/14/2009 12:41:01 AM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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To: STARWISE

Was he more enthusiatic than he was for the fallen at fort hood?


267 posted on 11/14/2009 12:41:01 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: STARWISE

Americans bow to no foreign leader. And American women don’t curtsy either, not even to the Queen. It is ion the State Department Protocol Handbook.

re: the Japanese. They are the most racist groupo of people I have ever encountered They absolutely hate black people, and aren’t too crazy about Caucasians either.

The only exception is the Pope.Catholics may bow to the Pope and kiss his ring.


268 posted on 11/14/2009 12:44:57 AM PST by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I wonder if we have a you tube clip yet.

Obama carries around his own wailing wall.

I bet Michelle whips him every night with a birch tree branch.

LOL.

Next will be a hair shirt and a crown of thorns.

I guess that makes him a shi'ite.

Obama wants everyone to forgive American history every since the Spanish American War.

'Forgive us, we were ignorant, a nation controlled by the eeeeevil blue eyed devils. I have changed that!'

Redefining history, the major mark of a Utopian National Socialist, one that our allies reject overwhelmingly.

His international apologia will be used to justify atrocity here at home,wait until his historic justice campaign reaches full swing domestically.It will be very ugly.

You are lucky to be well away from it.

269 posted on 11/14/2009 12:46:51 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Good point. When he was doing that “shout-out” thing, he was quite animated & enthusiastic; then when he talked about the shooting, it was as if all life had drained out of him, not so much because of the tragic content of what he was saying but because HE was no longer the FOCAL POINT of the discussion.

As for the bowing, granted he’s a GREENHORN about protocols with other heads of state, but doesn’t this guy have ANY ADVISORS who can advise him & M.O. on proper etiquette & protocol?


270 posted on 11/14/2009 12:46:53 AM PST by LiberaMa
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thanks!


271 posted on 11/14/2009 12:47:45 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: eyedigress

No , I wasn’t paying attention at the time.What was the trend?


272 posted on 11/14/2009 12:49:58 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: TigersEye
Correct.

It involved The Emperor so they will not publicly make a big noise about it.

But the private , subtle implications will be both widespread and unparalleled.

273 posted on 11/14/2009 12:50:19 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: The kind of American "clinging bitterly to religion and guns" FBI/DHS WON'T go after!)
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To: TigersEye

Well Tiger,maybe we will luck out and scoop the lot if them.


274 posted on 11/14/2009 12:52:04 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: LiberaMa

Int. White House. Foreign protocol office.

Advisor1: He’ll do whatever we say. Briefing book, teleprompter, whatever, he’s a puppet. (laughs)

Advisor2: Do you think he’ll actually BOW to the Japanese Emperor? It’s absurd.

Advisor1: It’s worth a shot. Remember, he bowed to the Saudi King. We’re dealing with a child.

Advisor2: If this works, he goes down on one knee and hands “the ring of peace” to Ahmadinejad. (laughing)


275 posted on 11/14/2009 12:54:59 AM PST by MediaMole
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To: AmericanInTokyo; All
Well ,have to sign off now.It's 4 am here and I have to get a couple of hours of shut eye. Thanks for this illuminating discussion.

Goodnight and bless you all.

276 posted on 11/14/2009 12:55:18 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Eyes were solidly shut. Was looking straight down. Had a furrowed brow and tense mouth as if apologizing for something. (FOR WHAT!!?) Somebody tell this dingbat it is not 1943 anymore; anyone can look directly into the Emperor's eyes nowadays.

You know this fits in with this feeling I've been getting about 0ba-Mao for some time. He is apologizing and he is apologizing for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He feels it personally as if he represents the U.S. in a completely anthropomorphic sense. Not only at this time but for our entire history as if he is America embodied in himself.

My feeling is that he has been doing that with everybody. Of course in his lib/Marxist raised mind America should be apologizing to everybody. It is very weird and I don't quite know how to express it. Narcissism, man-child, self-proclaimed deity just don't fully cover it. It's almost like some child-like role playing thing that he fully buys into.

277 posted on 11/14/2009 12:56:39 AM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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To: Candor7

That is whats going on. China pegged the yuan to match the dollar regardless. Short memories abound.


278 posted on 11/14/2009 12:57:52 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: AmericanInTokyo
If he had embarrassed the PRIME MINISTER, it would be openly spoken, and all over the press, in talk shows and in English and Japanese. Since it involved THE EMPEROR, the topic cannot be so easily broached IMHO,...

Ah, I see. Thank you. That is a subtlety that I would not have seen.

279 posted on 11/14/2009 12:59:06 AM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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To: Candor7
Well Tiger,maybe we will luck out and scoop the lot if them.

I believe we (FR) have. ;-)

280 posted on 11/14/2009 1:07:39 AM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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