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Japan expert to ABC : Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot
Hot Air ^
| November 13, 2009
| ALLAHPUNDIT
Posted on 11/15/2009 5:13:39 PM PST by RobinMasters
So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tappers source, at least one Japanese paper isnt running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.
The good news for O-bots? It wasnt unprecedented. Nixon evidently made a modest bow to Hirohito in the early 70s. The bad news?
Obamas handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bushs back-rub of Merkel.
Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.
The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms
.The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anotherbowgate; bhoasia; bhovisit; blunders; bow; bowgate; disgrace; idiot; illegitimate; miserablefailure; moron; obama; obowma; weakling
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To: RobinMasters
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:14:36 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: AmericanInTokyo; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:15:17 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: RobinMasters
Hillary’s “protocol people” are getting a HUGE laugh out of this ONE!!!
To: RobinMasters
**Yes, Obamas bow made him look like an idiot**
And the advisory staff who told him this was protocol are likewise idiots!
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:16:31 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: RobinMasters
The bow was meant to convey "I don't just bow to muzzie bastards, I bow to everybody".
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:17:34 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
To: RobinMasters
That can’t be! The Bamster is NEVER wrong! He needs no advice on how to bow from anyone. The Japanese are undoubtedly wrong. /s
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:17:47 PM PST
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
To: RobinMasters
If he had simply bowed and held eye contact, it would have been MUCH better. In Asian cultures, acquiescing eye contact is a sign of weakness, and sometimes an acknowledgment that the person across from you is ‘greater’.
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:17:55 PM PST
by
rintense
(You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
To: RobinMasters
WTF did we do to deserve this bozo???
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:18:06 PM PST
by
2nd Bn, 11th Mar
(The "P" in democrat stands for patriotism)
To: SevenofNine
It really is hilarious. RAHM to the State Department Department of Protocol: “Are you sure he has to bow below the Emperor’s navel?” HILLARY’s PROTOCOL STAFF: “Yes, and lower if he can manage it. And he should stay perfectly still until the Royal Empereror GETS A PHOTO OF THE BOW!!”
To: RobinMasters
How many world leaders bow to the Emperor of Japan?
Answer: Only one
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:18:53 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
To: RobinMasters
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:19:52 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Major Hasan: One Amercan "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
To: RobinMasters
This inexperienced, self-absorbed, puffed-up public-tit sucker is in so far above his pay-grade that he doesn't even know he makes us all look like a bunch of ass-monkeys.
Good grief.
;-/
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:20:03 PM PST
by
Gargantua
("Hodar" in Lithuanian means "anus")
To: RobinMasters
He’s a child in the grown-up world. We will be lucky to survive him without further damage.
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:20:21 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
To: RobinMasters
To: RobinMasters
I believe 0bama is bending way over again to simply hide the fact the he is a Muslim.
This way, he can say, look at me, I am simply a humble president that shows humility to all dignitaries.
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:22:10 PM PST
by
TheDailyChange
(Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
To: browniexyz
Hillarys protocol people are getting a HUGE laugh out of this ONE!!!
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:22:20 PM PST
by
digger48
To: paulycy
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:23:38 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Obama is a DIC....... Ditherer-in-Chief)
To: RobinMasters
the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs
That is probably accurate. I can envision Obama's classless lefty staff renting a DVD of The Karate Kid as research for how to instruct Obama to behave before the Emperor. After all, this is the administratiion that gave the Queen of England an Ipod and a $20 set of unrefined public domain movies to Gordon Brown.
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posted on
11/15/2009 5:23:43 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When the riders in the cart outnumber those pulling the cart, the cart stops moving. My back hurts.)
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