shoulda patted the boy on his head...
Posted on 11/15/2009 7:26:34 PM PST by iloveamerica1980
OK, I've recovered from the S.E. Cupp clip! Question: Does this President have ANY common sense? Gee, I wonder what would the MSM say if Bush did this.....
Hey President Obama was just showing the Japanese Emporer the top of his head. /Sarcasm -off
Could this have be a Clinton dirty trick? Is the Clinton State Dept giving him wrong advice on protocol?
Obama is an educated idiot. He assumes that he knows everything and will not accept the advice of ANYONE, even if he looks like a fool.
What do you mean, if he looks like a fool? He IS a fool!
Did he Quack like a Duck?
Perhaps I should have said, even when he looks like a fool.
shoulda patted the boy on his head...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386153/posts?q=1&;page=101
The bow in Japan is not , contrary to Western conventional thought, a gesture of submission. According to Japanese tradition, the human body has three “zones” . Heaven ( from the shoulders up) Man (from Shoulders to hip)and Earth ( from the hips down.) When one bows in Japan, one offers the highest of the body in respect, the heaven aspect. Obama is indeed as you say, prostrating himself, and Akihito Samma, is not bowing even a little, either because he i s surprised, or because he does not respect Obama.The real key is the empress, who is not bowing even a little.
They do not respect Obama enough to bow even a little.This is done with feeling in Japan, and is spontaneous.It is a thing involving a type of perception very different to Westerner’s cultural ettiquette. A genuine bow can actually be felt in the heart. And Akihito knows this bow is all show.No heart. That is likely why he does not return Obama’s bow, even a little.Nor does the Empress. Obama , intent on being the skillful inter cultural president, shows here that he knows nothing of Japanese culture.Before one bows there is a brief glance at the eyes of the person to whom one bows, a spark. This is what Obama is missing, or they both would be bowing back.
Secondly, Obama should have bowed before he shook hands, in the proper way, with his hands on his upper thigh, and he should not have bowed so deeply, because he is not a Japanese subject... a slow respectful bow of 45 to 50 degrees would have been required in his case, if Obama knew the correct protocol, which he obviously does not. So it is a false submissive bow of a man who has little honor in the way of Japanese thinking. A man who wants something. A man not to be trusted.
Obama did not fool the Imperial couple even one little bit, and they are strained to remain polite, humoring Obama as it were. Patronizing conduct gets one no where fast in Japan. Generally Japanese folks know a genuine bow from a false one by the way it feels, a form of perception which few Westerners experience, but still some do.
Obama has idiots for protocol officers, or alternatively, he did not listen to what they had to say about it.
Obama would have been much better off simply shaking hands, instead of this empty, false bow, completely off in its lack of genuineness. The bow of a snake.
I predict that Obama will make little progress with his diplomatic agenda in Japan, he will give much, and receive little in return.
104 posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:02:13 AM by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
“Hit me wit cha tea bag, Brah!” - Pres. Borat 0bagme
its a little late for Hillary to make a comeback.
The President has his own protocol team. Or at least he is supposed to.
Has it occured to anyone that he does these things on purpose to take the heat from the czars, etal? Everyone cries about birth certificates while people without any background checks are running the show?
Ilovew, all of us know how msm would react, but then they are in worp land.
We on the other hand, are to do not just different, but better. This 0 man, our elected president, negotiates with friend and foe alike. He is followed everywhere by a man carrying the nuclear football. His behavior has seemingly morphed from slightly bizarre, to less slightly bizarre.
Well its easy and lots of fun to throw stones, but for those of my fellow FRs that see the man as an opportunity to snide and cute and bloviate, maybe just cool a bit. Keep a cool head and pay close attention Rab thinks, things don’t seem to be getting better.
Rabin
Nope, nothing bizarre about that statement. /s
I know the White House also has a protocol team. I wonder if any Clintons might still be hanging around there?
One would think after the semi bow in Saudi Arabia, Obama would get this right. As someone said on the Fox panel tonight, we can be pretty sure Obama was not swearing loyalty to the Empire of Japan. So it was stupidity or someone is pulling dirty tricks on him.
Look, guys if he was really anti-American, then why hasn’t he done anything insane, like spending trillions of tax payer’s dollars to seize controlling interest of major industries?...oh wait a minute, he did do that...never mind.
Having only seen the picture of the famous moment where Obama does not place his hand on his heart during the national anthem, I always assumed it was because he was un-American. Having now heard the audio, I think he may have been too distracted by the butchering of the song by a woman that was obviously in pain during her rendition. Okay, that was sarcasm, but that “singing” was hideous.
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