[Recon Dad]

You begin to get the idea that Zero and his close staff are extremely obtuse. There are no pro's in this crowd at all.

My prediction has not changed, by October of 2010 you won't be able to find a Democratic pol other than a Schumer or Pelosi who would be seen with him. He will be toxic.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here is the irony. He screws up big time on the bow with the Emperor. But has the audacity to pass himself off as some kind of person sensitive to this region, which means languages, customs, culture, food, history, pop culture, etc.

So what does his press spokesman or handler Gibbs and Axelrod say about the "bow" afterwards to give some kind of indication of the big boss's thoughts following the scene?

"No biggie, it's not a problem. We did not spend any time thinking about that as an issue."

That to me reflects arrogance and shows to me their "senstivitity to the local situation in Asia including culture" is nothing but empty words. Their elite arrogance and refusing to probably listen to or solicit good advice from professionals on what to do was apparantly ignored outright. Otherwise they would have admitted a mistake and said they are learning. Shows the heighth of arrogance, know-it-all-ism and narcissism. They are going to trip over their shoelaces all over the globe like this, with this kind of attitude if you ask me.