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 ...
The author was spoofing the leftist blogger’s goofy use of “thin drool” when “gruel” is the usual term.
I made the comment on my earlier post from the Thinker that in the old days, there would have been an effort to impeach a president who made such a move. This is getting to be more blatant than the nudity in the Emperor’s New Clothes.
That’s not how I perceivd the author’s take at all. He’s using the term “drool” purposely, describing the lamestreams.
Love that graphic. LOL
From the article:
“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.’
‘Thin drool’ is priceless, isn’t it? The expression is ‘thin gruel’, but I guess this ‘professor’ has good reason to write under a pseudonym. There’s nothing more ridiculous than an illiterate calling others cretins.”
You forgot to post the photo of Obama bowing to Queen Elizabeth . . . just an understandable oversight on your part, I’m sure . . .
Country will have to collapse
It was covered this morning on CFRA radio.
You can hear the interview by clicking here, and scrolling down to ....
John Robson in the Morning- Apr 03
Or, go to Robson's page and click on Madely in the morning, April 3.
It looks like jovial surprise. Like "whoa that dude is really bowing to this murderous Arab monarch".
Bbbut its SOP here at FR....
The useful leftists will "get it" when they start getting lined up and shot. No person - no problem I believe is the old KGB maxim.
Come, come now! Freepers have been a bit edgy lately (understandably, don’tcha think?) but, on the whole, I’d match the intellectual level of our group here at FR against that of any political blog or website in existence.
“You forgot to post the photo of Obama bowing to Queen Elizabeth....”
There is no picture of Obozo bowing to Queen Elizabeth, because it didn’t happen. He shook her hand.
Go figure...
Shouldn’t African-Americans be offended? Obama acting like a black who knows his place when speaking to an Arab slavemaster?
Many are mad as hell with this fool obama groveling before this Saudi
If you think his greeting to the Queen compares to the to the pronounced lowering of the Saudi bow, I might suggest an optometrist.
I see your point. I didn’t read the wingnut dribble reference ... ;)
But Lifson’s point at the end is a diss of the actual lib drool, I believe.
boy...that’s brutal! now that’s real gallows humor...
BTTT!
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