Posted on 06/10/2009 7:51:43 AM PDT by pillut48
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DISRESPECTFUL to the Office of the President of the United States.
Oh, I’m sure the MSM can find HUNDREDS of pictures where previous presidents had their dirty shoes propped up on the desk in the Oval Office of the White House!!
/sarc
(Thank God the desk President Bush used was removed from that room and is hopefully in a safe place somewhere—did he get to keep it?)
According to a 2003 editorial in the Wall Street Journal by TUNKU VARADARAJAN, one of the greatest insults one can make in Islam is to show the sole of your foot:
As anyone who has been to the Middle East (or even to countries like India) knows, the foot and shoe are imbued with considerable significance.
The foot occupies the lowest rung in the bodily hierarchy and the shoe, in addition to being something in which the foot is placed, is in constant contact with dirt, soil and worse. The sole of the shoe is the most unclean part of an unclean object....In the Muslim world, according to Hume Horan, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to have the sole of the shoe directed toward one is pretty much the equivalent of someone in our culture giving you the finger. Matthew Gordon, a historian of Islam, says that since one takes ones shoes off before entering a mosqueas a way of maintaining the purity of the place of worshipthe use of a shoe as something to hit you with is an inversion, directing impurity and pollution at the object of the beating.
The link is at: http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110003324
I find it interesting that this is the picture selected by the White House to memorialize Obamas conversation with Netanyahu.
Doubt it. It was JFK’s.
To be clear, only the first and last paragraphs of my post are my writing. The middle of the post was supposed to be indented as it is a quote from Varadarajan’s article, but I screwed up the formatting.
bttt
Phone: Mr. President, Mr. Netanyahu is on the phone for you.
Zero: Can someone PLEASE tell me who this guy is and why he keeps trying to contact me? I thought Chavez was supposed to Holla at me! Hey, has Castro called yet? Tell that Netanyahu fella that I'll call him back... No need to get a number though.
Do you mean that Obama is disrespectful to the office of the president of the US?
So, the photo was taken DURING Zero’s conversation with Isreal’s PM?
Odd, he put on a Muslim cloth to go see Egypt - right next door to Isreal......
Perfect picture of a used car salesman!
Hello?.....Yes ! this is Odinga Motor Car Corporation. May I help you?
My thoughts exactly and you said it perfectly for me.
“I already told you: In the interest of preserving what’s left of our national unity, I have decided against trying Bush and Cheney as the war criminals they are.”
Mob boss at work.
I'm very sorry Mr. Soros. It was the teleprompter's fault. 2 centuries...20 centuries...what's the difference anyway?
People are so stupid they actually believed the Hope-Change thing, so it's no big deal.
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