Posted on 11/16/2009 9:01:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers and embarrass the rest of us.
He went off to Asia to tell the Chinese a thing or two about world trade, to prepare the world for a treaty to make the sun change its spots, and of course to pay his respects to assorted heads of state, with particular attention to any royal head (perhaps even including Miss Universe) who crosses his path.
So far it's a memorable trip. He established a new precedent for how American presidents should pay obeisance to kings, emperors, monarchs, sovereigns and assorted other authentic man-made masters of the universe. He stopped just this side of the full grovel to the emperor of Japan, risking a painful genuflection if his forehead had hit the floor with a nasty bump, which it almost did. No president before him so abused custom, traditions, protocol (and the country he represents). Several Internet sites published a rogue's gallery showing how other national leaders - the prime ministers of Israel, India, Slovenia, South Korea, Russia and Dick Cheney among them - have greeted Emperor Akihito with a friendly handshake and an ever-so-slight but respectful nod (and sometimes not even that).
Now we know why Mr. Obama stunned everyone with an earlier similar bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, only the bow to the Japanese emperor was far more flamboyant, a sign of a really deep sense of inferiority. He was only practicing his bow in Riyadh.(continued)
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Yes, its sad when we long for the 8 years of Clinton back over this pathetic clown...
Five years ago I would have told you my biggest fear was Hillary sitting as president...boy was I naive!!!
Love all of your posts, 2ndDivision, btw. Always good reading!
It’s a good thing Obama is a seasoned world-traveler, an accomplished intellectual, and princely Nobel laureate. It takes a special man-of-the-world with his unique credentials to grovel before a hereditary god-emperor with that special mixture of gravitas, flair, and buffoonery.
So Ted Rall is this yet another house nigger kow towing to a “slant”?
http://michellemalkin.com/2004/07/08/the-buck-naked-bigotry-of-ted-rall/
Thank you for your kind words.
Oh, man! That image says everything I tried to!
I don’t miss Clinton (and I never used the term “President” to describe him - nor the current resident of the White House).
And I don’t miss Carter.
Both were and are living disasters for this country.
Zero is just the latest dem disaster - inhabitor of the White House.
Yes, he’s the worst - why? He’s the most openly communist.
He’s the most open about his hatred of this country, cannot disguise it.
And, no doubt, he is the most DANGEROUS person to be in the White House, in power (along with his communist comrades over in Congress) ever.
God help us get through these nightmare years!!! Days! Hours!
Even Hillary would not have been this horrible. Does anybody think she’s going to bow to any man anywhere in the world? Be more likely to kick him in the apple sack than bow to him...
LOL. I love the peace sign on the lapel. The only thing missing is the rainbow flag and Obama logo. Or a hybrid of the two.
“I miss President Clinton”
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(Rahm Emanuel at 0ba-Mao's inauguration)
Ignorant asshat. Gee, I so prude of our kowtowing feeless leader.
I personally believe that 0bozo is the anti-Christ and in fact will be revealed shortly following the world wide rapture of belivers, which will signifiy the start of the 7 years of Great Tribulation before Christ comes back to defeat Satan and those carrying the mark of the Anti-Christ.
Well, I guess those who said he didn’t bow to the Saudi King were lying. Obama must hate being President. He’s doing everything he can to make Americans hate him. With the criticism he received after the Saudi bow, why would he do this? He really has nothing but contempt for America. And I think Beck was right about him hating white people. Why else would he bow to Arabs and Japanese but manhandle the Queen of England.
I’m not sure it’d be HIM, but he’s sure got the narcissism down pat. If he should miraculously bounce back from a mortal wound, I’m loading up with barterables and heading for the boonies.
Says it well.
He is Not One of Us.
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