White House Defends Obama’s Bow to Japanese Emperor as ‘Protocol’

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[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Politico: A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Yep

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6fL7Y4BZA

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[mewzilla]

UPDATED: Obama bows again -- how will White House explain?

According to York, there is no protocol that calls for Zero to do that.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Well said. Watch this VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6fL7Y4BZA

[John.Galt2012]

They must have had a different Protocol Office when Reagan was in office. But then again we didn't DVD and Ipods then...

[Cindy]

OPINION:

I agree.

He needs to call an America or even a former America president and find out how to shake hands.

He’s not a servant; he’s the President of the United States of America.

[Roccus]

Next he’ll have us dipping our colors.

[cliff630]

HOT JIMMINEY!! You got that right

That was my immediate thought when I saw the bow
on Drudge. Big cover up for the Saudi REAL bow

Doesn't Odumba realize we are not all dumb bunnies
like acorn?

[libh8er]

Next time he will bow so deeply that his head will pass between his ankles and enter an orifice on the other side. An orifice devoid of sunlight.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

No next he is taking over all of our public transportation to keep us safe...

[mware]

Bet you will never see an Aussie bow before a Japanese Emperor.

[screaminsunshine]

Obama Sucks!

[LibLieSlayer]

Proto bullsh!t if you ask me.

LLS

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I never thought of it that way. They do think like that. But at the same time he looks like a dolt.

[ElayneJ]

Right. I spent some time there too, and I never saw anyone bow like this.

[goodnesswins]

He just doesn’t “look like a dolt”.....he IS A DOLT!

[1776 Reborn]

So according to this White House, their protocol requires our President to kiss the crotch of every tin horn dictator anywhere in the world?

[samtheman]

It’s a coverup. Trying to get us to forget the bow to the Muzzie King... that bow was REAL.

[mewzilla]

He just doesn’t “look like a dolt”.....he IS A DOLT!

And he bows like a serf.

[AmericanInTokyo]

My earlier COUNTER ARGUMENTS to the WHITE HOUSE over this FIASCO:

SINGAPORE – A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday. Oh, realllllllly?? All the US diplomatic protocol and international norms are against you. This was not only (just) a bow in Tokyo--as you clearly try to get away with here by leaving out material fact--it was an extensively DEEP, awkward if not subservient bow, almost unprecedented in the history of Emperor Akihito receiving foreign vistors. We have the proof. We have the cultural and diplomatic experts. We are not only talking about the bow, jerks, we are talking about how ridiculously low it was and amateurish, if not ill- advised for many geopolitical reasons which you DNC cub interns just joy-riding around for the first time in Asia on Air Force One don't have the slightest idea about. We have precedent (in Saudi Arabia) to bowing and scraping by Obongo on the international stage. OK, bring it on, White House, MSM and Daily Kos! "I think that those who try to politicize those things are just way, way, way off base," the official said.-- Righhhht. You koolaid-drinking White House morons have the nerve to cry about "politicization". OK, smarty pants, what specifically is "off base?" Throw in another "way" and you just might have a chance at this. "He observes protocol. ---In what way? We have the evidence and photographs to show this was a breach of protocol and cannot be defended back home to the American People. But I don’t think anybody who was in Japan – who saw his speech and the reaction to it, certainly those who witnesses his bilateral meetings there – would say anything other than that he enhanced both the position and the status of the U.S., relative to Japan. --Washington D.C. Beltway Bullsh@t Spin. You changed the subject COMPLETELY, didn't you? This has NOTHING to do with the Tokyo speech, we are not discussing that--even though that flopped. (Even Japanese press is emerging today in Tokyo that nothing was accomplished on this visit.) However, Mr. Senior White House official, what we ARE talking about is Obama's deep "ojigi" bow to Emperor Akihito. Don't try to change the subject to wiggle out of it. Now, back on the topic! The "bow"! It was a good, positive visit at an important time, because there’s a lot going on in Japan." --What kind of asinine, vague, sophmoric comment is this? You sound like a second year university journalism student over a beer. Completely challengeable.