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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.