Posted on 11/14/2009 8:09:57 PM PST by myknowledge
awwww heack, he’s only doing what Val Jarrett has been telling him to do .................roflol
Boy, he sickens me.
You should put that on You Tube. Nice job!
Obama spoke extensively of his own roots in the region – his birth in Hawaii, living in Indonesia as a boy, his mother spending nearly a decade working in the villages of Southeast Asia. “The Pacific rim has helped shape my view of the world,” Obama said, speaking in front of 14 alternating U.S. and Japanese flags.
He bowed to Putin too! I didn’t know that.
This will be good.
Trying to cover up his deep bow for his Saudi King by repeating it for these very small Asians.
Maybe zero got Red China mixed up as Japan in his head?
KDM (Knuckle-Dragging Michelle) has 27 aides, which is about 25 more than any other FLOTUS has ever had. Maybe that’s what you do when you’re African-American rich.
Let’s see if SNL pans it. They should. It’s a perfect kind of thing for them to parody. Jeez, he looks like an idiot! Hey! That’s because he IS an idiot!
I feel like attributing that quote to you in a tagline.
The new man curtsy ;)
Post of the day. Youtube shows him bowing 10 times!!
Quote from InstaPundit:
Reader Thomas Hoyt writes:
“I lived in Japan for seven years and have a BA and almost an MA (still working on the thesis – sigh) in East Asian Studies.
Obama’s bow to the Saudi king was a breach of etiquette and a horrible symbolic act, but bowing in Japan is like shaking hands in America. Anytime you introduce yourself to someone, you bow, regardless of whether it’s the plumber come to fix your sink, your new assistant in the office, or the emperor. It is a common courtesy that has none of the meaning of bowing to a monarch that we have in the West. Refusing to bow, whether to your new assistant or the emperor, has the same insulting connotation as refusing to shake hands does in the US.”
Unfortunately, Glenn's contact link opens directly to Ms Outlook, which is not configured on my machine and the link properties do not show his email, or I would do it myself.
American in Tokyo is correct. The Japanese do not expect foreign diplomats to bow, let alone the President of the United States. For a good frame reference, “google MacArthur Emperor” images and take a good look. Note whose hands are in their pockets. MacArthur shows a keen knowledge of the Orient not Obama.
Beyond the fact that he should not be bowing in the first place, Obama’s bow is ridiculous. It is not even a proper bow. Why would you be bowing and trying to shake hands at the same time. Further, his angle of bow shows that he puts himself at about the scullery maid rung of the status ladder.
I lived in Japan for almost a decade and am well acquainted with type westerners that are saying that this is perfectly acceptable. They tend to get real upset when they finally realize that they are NOT Japanese. Japanese do not expect you to act like one of them. If you want to show some deference to their culture a slight bow will suffice.
46 instances of hand shaking without bowing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6fL7Y4BZA
Obama should have a look!
True. But as discussed on another FR thread, there is greater significance to this. Since the founding of the American republic in a revolution against monarchy, the unwritten protocol has been NO AMERICAN BOWS TO FOREIGN ROYALTY. That is to demonstrate for all to see that we are a free people, not servile to any monarch or other royal.
Obama flouted this protocol (for at least the second time as POTUS), consistent with his disdain for American exceptionalism and his view of being a "citizen of the world." But it's even worse than that in this case. This "commander in chief" disrespected the memory of the hundreds of thousands of American servicemen killed by the Japanese during WWII in pursuit of their emperor worship cult of that era.
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