Posted on 04/08/2009 6:04:14 PM PDT by kellynla
In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week.
Mr. Obama later said in Strasbourg, France, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." Symbolism is important in world affairs. By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States.
The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king's subjects, not his peer. There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt shook hands with Saudi King Abdulaziz in February 1945. Granted, Mr. Roosevelt was wheelchair-bound, but former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shook hands when he first met King Saud in January 1957. Mr. Obama's bow to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques does not help his image with those who believe he is secretly a Muslim, and why he chose to bow only to the Saudi King and not to any other royals remains unexplained.
No Americans of any station are required to bow to royalty.
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Is she still 5’4” ? She appears smaller than that. Most women loose some inches with age.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33289_Bush_Bowed_Too
I don't ‘get’ LGF’s take on this but there is the video.
But, the sooner we start drilling more here, the sooner we can become independent of foreign oil and keep those hundreds of billions of dollars HERE instead of “over there”...
There is a video at little green footballs that shows Bush “bowing”. Actually, the king was putting a medal on him and he only ducked his head so that the medal could be put on it because Bush was taller than the king.
Obama was clearly genuflecting and Bush was getting a medal put over his head - huge difference.
“Newt claimed again that President Bush bowed also, I just don’t believe that’s true because the msm would be using to justify Obama.”
If there was video or a photo of Bush bowing it would have hit the leftwing media would have plastered it everywhere within minutes of Obama’s sickening actions. There were a number of ‘trolls’ or suffers of ‘BDS’ that posted that same accusation here and when asked to prove them they mysteriously disappeared. So that’s that, but as far as the Bush hand holding I did not approve of it,but holding hands, hand shaking are both the acts of EQUALS. A BOW is an act of SUBMISSION and/or SUBSERVANCE! As I said I did not care for Bush’s stroll with the King that much myself, but the two acts are in NO WAY comparable!
LOL, R_Kangel.
Barack (or Barrack - however the hell you spell it), take a bow! You deserve it. Good boy!
Bowed only to Saudi. Now we know where the money came from.
Huge difference. Bush was bending over for the purpose of receiving the medal. Obama was bowing down for the purpose of ...
as usual, the cover-up “gives legs” to the crime...
What else would you expect FRom a Kenya-born Muslim?
I heard Brigitte at a conference in Colorado Springs. You could have heard a pin drop. She’s a little powerhouse of a woman: Her book, “They Must Be Stopped, Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It” is a must read. She knows of what she speaks: that Radical Islamists are everywhere and seek to destroy our democracy and our lives.
I’m just trying to figure out her height. I decided long before this thread that it was inappropriate for him to bow to the King. I sent the video to Drudge and the MSM the day he did it.
So, back to my original question, do you know her current height?
Certainly.
More important to me than the cost of oil, is our need to not to be in a position where THEY have control over us and can shut off the oil any time they want.
If we did “all of the above” we could cut THEM off.... well maybe. ;>)
“So, back to my original question, do you know her current height?”
Nope, but the last time she was over to the house, she was about 5-4. LOL
Yeah, but Newt's been borg'd, and is now only slightly to the right of that tower of Conservatism, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You would get my vote, but I want the Secretary of Defense job and during all months ending with “r” I get to hold onto the “football”. Deal? ;>)
I’ve heard acommon saying that says, in effect..
“Give me a child until they are 7, and I’ll give you ROman Catholic for life” - Anonymous Catholic teacher.
Barak HUSSEIN Obama was a Muslim until he was 7-8 years old. Remember him talking about remembering the call to prayers, in Arabic?
For a person who had to address the question of his faith during the campaign to quell rumors he was a Muslim, the bow to King Fahd was galactically stupid. Moronically stupid.
A breach of protocol that will send reverberations through the Muslim world.
The zero literally went to Europe to bow and scrape to the Eurotrash and the Muslims.
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