Reprehensible.
Posted on 04/03/2009 11:20:49 AM PDT by Scanian
Has anyone ever seen Barack Obama publicly bow and bend his knee when meeting someone prior to yesterday? I don't recall any photos of such a gesture of greeting, but I would be very happy if some of the President's defenders on the left could provide such evidence that his striking body language yesterday before the monarch of Saudi Arabia and custodian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina was simply a habitual gesture of warmth.
(See also: Obama bows down to Saudi King and Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king?)
When meeting the Saudi King for the first time at a reception in London, the President of the United States unmistakably bowed deeply and even bent his knee. (at 1:37 in the following video)
The American mainstream media apparently paid no heed, and instead focused on Michelle Obama causally touching the Queen of England when introduced to the United Kingdom's monarch. If anyone has seen MSM paying attention to this signal event, a traditional acknowledgement of fealty, please let me know.
If it was not a gesture of subordination, why did the Saudi King fail to respond with a similar bow?
The left wing blogs are doing their best to ridicule reaction to those who reacted in horror to body language conveying subordination and fealty. A self-identified "community college professor" on the left wing site Firedoglake uses a lot of Anglo-Saxonisms in ridiculing conservative reaction:
The wingnut attention span just isn't that long, usually, and even by these cretins' standards this "story" is pretty thin drool.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Did you see the joy on Obama’s face after his bow to a Moslem King?
BHO hates America and, until it became politically expedient, refused to wear a flag pin. Sure, wearing a flag pin ins’t a big deal, but now he’s bowing to a Saudi king?
If Teleprompter was openly respectful of all kind of traditions we could brush it off but remember the “clinging to G-d and guns” comment in San Francisco?
The secret is out about BHO. He’s a traitor in our midst.
Yeah, he looked like he belonged on a street corner, pedaling.
Juvenile. He has no stature, no character.
Was it meeting King-baby that made Zer0 happy or all that hidden, illegal campaign money?
Was he wearing the American flag when he met the King?
The American Flag was painted to the soles of his shoes so he could step on it with every step he takes.
Reprehensible.
I think it was:
fealty
noun historical a feudal tenant’s or vassal’s sworn loyalty to a lord.
Hmmmm... and the Queen gets a slap on the back.
Looks like Sarkozy was enjoying it, too. Wazzup with that?
He’s the real manchurian candidate for sure.
I wonder how long it will be before all but the most radical leftys wake up and realize that they got way more than they bargained for.
Give it a few days and the media lie will be, obama didn’t bow, he only tripped on the carpet.
I am sure that this bow is not lost on people that read these gestures as part of their every day life. This is very troubling to me.
“I wonder how long it will be before all but the most radical leftys wake up and realize that they got way more than they bargained for.”
Never.
Treason is the term that applies.
He didn’t give the Saudi King an I-pod though!
Pinging to bring your work forward here.....
Indeed. Islam, like liberalism, is heavy on symbolism, principally because neither has much of substance to deliver.
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