[STARWISE]

Why the dramatic show of reverence ... ?

[N-soku-Yaruo]

N International

[onemiddleamerican]

This idiot just can't help himself, bowing down to every leader in the world and apologizing for every war fought and won in our past. And all the while, he refuses to give our soldiers and military leaders the men and materiel they need to kick the living crap out of the jihadis in Afghanistan.

A walking, talking, worthless piece of donkey-crap, is what he is.

And that's about the nicest thing I can say about the communist SOB.

[Girlene]

Seen this one yet?

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

Maybe he has a shoe fetish

[EternalVigilance]

Obama is a disgrace to all those who have fought for America and for freedom.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[50mm]

It's a photoshop. Here's the original showing Zero had to bend to shake hands with the very short Emperor.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Can we get the thread back on the topic\/title of yesterday’s (outrageous)Tokyo bow?

[lonevoice]

A bow like this from a head of state demonstrates Nobama's subservience and inferiority to the emperor

President Reagan meets the Japanese emperor

VP Dick Cheney meets the Japanese emperor

President Nobama submits to the Japanese emperor

[Genoa]

When will a reporter ask the obvious question?
"Mr. President, several months ago you were photographed bowing from the waist to the King of Saudi Arabia. Recently, you were photographed bowing from the waist again, this time to the Emperor of Japan. This was not the custom for previous U.S. presidents, nor has it been the custom for other world leaders to do so. Your critics say this deep bowing is an inappropriate gesture of inferiority. Would you like to explain this?"

[Chgogal]

Obama is appallingly lacking in world leadership knowhow. It is becoming obvious he thinks he is a private citizen of Indonesia or Kenya and NOT the POTUS.

An American President does not bow to anyone PERIOD.

Obama, since you consider yourself a private citizen of Indonesia and/or Kenya, I do not have to respect the office of POTUS, FUBO! You do not represent me abroad, you despicable excuse of a so called world leader. There is no excuse for your stupidity, your outright disrespect to the United States of America, your buffoonery, your MARXIST ways and support of MARXIST enemies world wide. You are more comfortable with the likes of Qaddafi, Chavez, etc, than you are with the ordinary American citizen.

[Candor7]

Whew! Are we headed for 500 on this thread?( Last night I thought it mugt go to 200 or so, but it seems that people are coming in from other threads referencing this one!)

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the ping, STARWISE.

Beckwith, zero was in Japan on a stop-over when he and his mother flew to Jakarta, when he was six years of age. That’s all he knows about Japanese Culture...he was there long enough to eat an icecream:

http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Barack-Obama/Nikki-Grimes/9781416971443/excerpt/1

last paragraph.

[DoughtyOne]

Bowing is a part of the Japanese culture. It’s a part of the greeting process. There is a protocol. If one is greeting a superior, I believe they are supposed to bow deeper than the person who holds the superior station.

Obama’s deep bow from the waist, seems to indicate he thinks the Emperor is the superior. If that is his vision, he is one lame son of a gun. These are two heads of state, unless Obama wants to grant him the old God status.

I would like to see others chime in on this, because I probably have it partially wrong.

[JrsyJack]

He’s not bowing, the Emperor is applying the Venutian death grip he learned from his wife’s alien buddies.

[thouworm]

Linking American Thinker article and thread

November 14, 2009
Obama’s botched bow
Thomas Lifson

Bad enough that Obama bowed down to another head of state yesterday. Even worse, he did not bother to learn how one bows in Japan, and just winged it.

I agree with Scott Johnson, Steve Gilbert, Andrew Malcom, and many others that the President of the United States should not be bowing before any head of state.

But unlike these astute observers, I actually know a little something about the art of the bow in Japan, having lived in Japan four different times on a resident visa, taught East Asian Studies at Harvard, and counseled many hundreds of American, European, Middle Eastern, and Australian executives on how to work and negotiate with the Japanese — including teaching them the right way to bow.

Obama’s bow (below) violates a fundamental precept: NO TOUCHING while bowing.

Obama’s botched bow

Here is one of many websites that illustrates how to bow in Japan. The one thing that virtually everyone who teaches bowing etiquette stresses is under no circumstance try to combine a bow with a handshake.

(snip)

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.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/obamas_botched_bow.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386681/posts

[missnry]

Wouldn't it be something if this "news" hit the mainstream media? What kind of cover of a magazine do you think they could have?

[Bellflower]

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.

[tedder]

46 instances of handshaking without bowing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6fL7Y4BZA

Obama should take lessons!

[sunny48]

America is the laughing stock of the world and still there’s so many Americans with eyes wide shut.