DISRESPECTFUL to the Office of the President of the United States.
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.
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.
Perfect picture of a used car salesman!
Hello?.....Yes ! this is Odinga Motor Car Corporation. May I help you?
“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.”
...yes, it's 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. One large meat-lovers, uh... but no ham or bacon! Within 30 minutes or it's free, right?
This in our oval office.
This is not much different that bubba having monica under his desk while he discussed deployments to Bosnia.
Trash is trash is trash.
This was by design.
Whew, I’m much more secure talking to you on the phone. When we’re face to face you make me look like a wimp. I mean, did you see those OTHER pictures of me when you were here? I couldn’t even look in your direction.
The Resolute desk has a marvelous history.
I’m sure the British are pleased to see Obama’s shoes on it.
Hope he doesn’t have dog poop on them.
Obama has obviously never been taught basic protocol or manners.
Or else he’s just a pig.
He put his shoes on the leather seats of the presidential limo when he was with Brian Williams.
“As Obama laments his lost freedom, his suit jacket is off and his feet are propped on the seat adjacent him.
The presidential seal is embroidered on the leather seat over his left shoulder ..”
Obama flings basketballs around the Oval Office, which I suppose is better than masturbating ( and having oral and anal sexual contacts )
in the Oval Office like Bill Clinton, but,
he still has plenty of time to prefect his perversions and disrespect-
” and catching a basketball in the Oval Office (you werent supposed to film that.)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06022009/news/nationalnews/obama_wishes_he_could_buy_his_own_shavin_172258.htm