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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: missnry

LOL! Great job. Where in the HECK did you get that. You should make THAT go viral. Particularly among Independents in the U.S.


541 posted on 11/14/2009 8:58:26 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Right click with your mouse. Look down where it says “properties” this is the URL of the image Cope and paste into an e-mail.

To save the picture to your computer , right click, look to “save as” click on it, save to your hard drive as “gif”/

I use AOL . To place picture in e-mail, click on insert picture, click on the image and it goes right in the e-mail.

Good luck!


542 posted on 11/14/2009 9:01:35 PM PST by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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To: Red Steel
I couldn't think less of them if they were the citizens of my worm-farm, but that's not fair to the worms...

...as for their behaviour when meeting the Queen of England, there's no excuse for that exhibition of familiarity, none what-so-ever; when our Prime Minister several years ago made a similar mistake, the entire population tore him to shreds. (Well, not literally.) He was also an extremely arrogant man. Paul Keating, an avowed anti-royalist:

I can imagine zero saying to Michelle, 'don't forget to handle her if you get close enough, because the royals hate that, and we need to show them how far they have fallen off their colonial pedestal...'

543 posted on 11/14/2009 9:04:54 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Chickensoup

I don’t think it was Nancy Reagan. It was her friend, Lee Annenberg, wife of Ambassador to the UK Walter Annenberg who curtsied to the Queen.

The American media made a huge scandal of it


544 posted on 11/14/2009 9:08:36 PM PST by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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To: Candor7
They originally had "Nara visit" on the President's schedule and forgot to remove it; Obongo read it and thought it said "O-Nara during visit".

(Horrible, crass, crude, inside joke.)

PS THAT CONSERVATIVE SWEETHEART MICHELE MALKIN'S NOW GOT IT, including the stream of evidentiary photographs from yesterday on Free Republic heading the Lib Spinners off at the pass to show to NO WORLD LEADERS do this protocol-wise, before the Emperor of Japan.

545 posted on 11/14/2009 9:17:32 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Where in the HECK did you get that.

Lovitz

I just bought it at the news stand... yeah, yeah that's the ticket. I bought it at the news stand. There were a thousand copies there, no a million, yeah a million...

Actually I went to this website (http://graphics.imagetemplate.net/) and mixed it up with my photoshop skills. It took about an hour but it was worth the time.

546 posted on 11/14/2009 9:24:56 PM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Fred Nerks
Another Obama bow wow scene.


547 posted on 11/14/2009 9:26:36 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: missnry

lol!


548 posted on 11/14/2009 9:29:21 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: Red Steel

He’s weak. And everyone knows it. Worldwide. Particularly in elite circles. Except 52% of the American People. I guess we have to give them some time. Somebody is also late to get the memo.


549 posted on 11/14/2009 9:30:41 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: STARWISE

Excellent work!


550 posted on 11/14/2009 9:33:52 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: Red Steel

Good night nurse! He bowed to Putin too? This is getting too disgusting to even contemplate.


551 posted on 11/14/2009 9:39:20 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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To: Red Steel

..if he keeps that up he’s going to end up a hunch-back. Quazimodo?


552 posted on 11/14/2009 9:58:57 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: missnry

Great graphic ... copyright it .. put it on tee shirts.. ;)


553 posted on 11/14/2009 10:01:43 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: missnry

Tommy Fla-NAY-gan .... ROFL~!


554 posted on 11/14/2009 10:04:14 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE
He bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito to blur the impact of his automatic genuflect for Saudi Arabian King Abdulla. It is damage control. They can say it was just polite protocol as you can see that he also did the same thing out of respect for the Japanese Emperor. It is just his way of showing his respect.
I believe it most likely was out of his deep felt indebtedness for the Saudi King whose family may have helped Obama through Harvard.

Percy Sutton, a former Manhattan Borough president told a New York cable channel that a controversial black activist and adviser to Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Khalid Al-Mansour, was taking an interest in Obama and was raising money for him and seeking recommendations for him to help him get into Harvard. For some reason someone very connected with the Saudi royal family was helping Obama and we really do not know just how much. My gut feeling is that it was quite a lot and Obama owes them for his fortune in life and that is at least part of the reason that he automatically genuflected to them. That and their common religious goals and beliefs.

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html
So if the figures cited by the Obama campaign for the Senator’s student loans are accurate, that means that Obama came up with more than $32,000 over three years from sources other than loans to pay for tuition, room and board.
Where did he find the money? Did it come from friends of Khalid Al Mansour? And why would a radical Muslim activist with ties to the Saudi royal family be raising money for Barack Obama?
That’s the question the Obama campaign still won’t answer.

555 posted on 11/14/2009 10:08:27 PM PST by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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Obama: "Some of you may be aware that when I was a young boy, my mother brought me to Kamakura, where I looked up at that centuries-old symbol of peace and tranquillity — the great bronze Amida Buddha. And as a child, I was more focused on the "maccha" ice cream. And I want to thank Prime Minister Hatoyama for sharing some of those memories with more ice cream last night at dinner."

Where did a mother on welfare, get so much money to travel all over the world with her children?
556 posted on 11/14/2009 11:27:15 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Candor7; AmericanInTokyo; kabar

Politico’s following the 0 talking points, per usual .. they’re SO predictable .. LOL.

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Barack Obama bowed to Japanese emperor as ‘protocol’
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By MIKE ALLEN | 11/14/09 11:59 PM EST

SINGAPORE – A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.

“I think that those who try to politicize those things are just way, way, way off base,” the official said. “He observes protocol. But I don’t think anybody who was in Japan – who saw his speech and the reaction to it, certainly those who witnesses his bilateral meetings there – would say anything other than that he enhanced both the position and the status of the U.S., relative to Japan.

It was a good, positive visit at an important time, because there’s a lot going on in Japan.”

The Drudge Report gave a banner headline to a photo of the encounter: “OBAMA BOWS BEFORE JAPAN’S EMPEROR.” Drudge linked to a Los Angeles Times blog post that headlined the photo: “How low will he go?”

That led to a raft of e-mail to POLITICO asking why we weren’t covering this big story.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29529.html

Those comments need the addition of accurate info from folks who know about Japanese cultural practices. It’s a free login, then you can post a comment. Lots of uninformed folks there.


557 posted on 11/14/2009 11:34:52 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE; Candor; TigersEye; sushiman; gaijin
They (the mobile White House on AF-1 into and at Singapore) are reading FREE REPUBLIC.

I fully expected this. It is actually kind of flattering. They have now made their opening defense, which was exactly what I expected them to say.

We baited the hook and they came out of the cave and made statements we can now blow the crap out of.

OK, now, let's tear them apart!

558 posted on 11/14/2009 11:38:57 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: STARWISE
Eagles Up!

I will go tear them a new one, accordingly.

559 posted on 11/14/2009 11:40:25 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I think they've been torn apart. It's all right here on this thread. Michelle Malkin picked it up. We could all forward the URL to Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and every other talking head you can think of. The more that send it on to them the better. Get them prepped for Monday.

0buttcrack and company definitely think this will be a problem. Guess they don't plan on any more monumental screwups while in Asia. What is that joke? If you want to make God laugh make plans? LOL

560 posted on 11/14/2009 11:49:58 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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