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OBAMA'S EVERY GESTURE WILL BE SCRUTINIZED IN HIROSHIMA VISIT
AP ^ | May 26, 2016 | FOSTER KLUG

Posted on 05/26/2016 9:45:25 AM PDT by PROCON

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Every gesture. Every word uttered or avoided. Every person Barack Obama speaks with, listens to and stands beside in Hiroshima. All of it will help determine the success of a trip with huge potential political and diplomatic pitfalls, both in America and Asia.

The leader of the United States is already one of the world's most watched people. But that daily scrutiny will be magnified exponentially when Obama makes the first presidential journey to the place where the first atomic bomb attack killed tens of thousands 71 years ago.

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TOPICS: Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologytour; assclown; hiroshima; obama
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TO BOW OR NOT TO BOW

Obama knows from past experience that every gesture counts when he's on the world stage.

He took a hit early in his presidency when his deep bow before Japanese Emperor Akihito was criticized by U.S. conservatives who saw him as groveling.

I will be MORE surprised if 0bama DOESN'T apologize and grovel.

1 posted on 05/26/2016 9:45:26 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

The mere fact that he is going to the memorial is extremely bad optics.


2 posted on 05/26/2016 9:47:56 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: PROCON

Obama is going to visit Hiroshima on our USA Memorial Day. He will apologize, we are sure.

But has he ever visited Pearl Harbor (as president), the Vietnam Memorial in DC, the graves in France? No, he hasn’t. Why? He hates America first.


3 posted on 05/26/2016 9:50:48 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: headstamp 2

Any “optics” with him as the subject is always bad optics with the sole exception of him leaving the dais on Jan 20 2017 hopefully with a foot strategically placed.


4 posted on 05/26/2016 9:51:37 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: PROCON
My dad was in the occupation forces for a time and I'm sure he would be displeased that we're begging for forgiveness for an act which he was certain saved countless lives on BOTH sides.

But we've seen Obama's approach to "combating" ISIS: bomb selectively and let a war drag on forever and forever with no victories or progress to speak of. One would almost think his heart isn't in it. Given that I'm sure he does think that actually ending the war decisively was a bad idea.

5 posted on 05/26/2016 9:53:06 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: PROCON

It needs to be!


6 posted on 05/26/2016 9:53:09 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: PROCON

It’s his second apologize and grovel tour.


7 posted on 05/26/2016 9:53:13 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: PROCON

why not visit Bataan. then make the walk to the camp.

I never knew up to 10,000!! Filipinos may have died on the march on top of the 150 Americans.


8 posted on 05/26/2016 9:53:21 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: PROCON

Japan allows muslims now?


9 posted on 05/26/2016 9:55:15 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

yeah, You use everything you got.

that was a war to decide the fate of the WORLD.

Not the Falkland Islands. A nuke in that situation might have been extreme :)


10 posted on 05/26/2016 9:56:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: PROCON

He’s going there to punch us in the face again.
He loves doing it. He regards those bombs as a mistake.
So he goes there.
Oh, and to take a selfie.


11 posted on 05/26/2016 9:57:02 AM PDT by RickGee
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To: PROCON

He will curtsy to the Emperor.


12 posted on 05/26/2016 9:58:07 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PROCON

“”The key thing is to restore dignity,” said Jeff Kingston, a history professor at Temple University Japan. “He realizes this is the unfinished business of reconciliation, that there is a long road from foe to friend.”


Another weird academic.(Probably also for financial reparations to blacks)

Every time a Japanese auto or electronic product was purchased shows that we are friends.


13 posted on 05/26/2016 9:58:44 AM PDT by Mears
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To: PROCON
The "Nigga"(1) will find a way to apologize.

(1) April 30, 2016, Larry Wilmore called Obama a "nigga"which was not denied.

14 posted on 05/26/2016 10:01:01 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: PROCON; gaijin; Bikkuri; MeganC; GraceG

What an Assclown!


15 posted on 05/26/2016 10:03:41 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: PROCON

Weak bough gives strong bow.


16 posted on 05/26/2016 10:05:31 AM PDT by moovova (I'm white and I'm proud. Old too.)
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To: dp0622
Liberals live in a world free of facts and historical perspective. They maintain that Japan was on the verge of surrender and we didn't need to bomb them. This is in spite of the fact that we fought an immensely bloody island hopping campaign against them where they simply didn't surrender. Further, we dropped an atomic bomb on them and they STILL didn't surrender. We had to drop a second one before they got the point.

But hey, the left says Japan was ready to make nice so we were the bad guys. Whatever.

17 posted on 05/26/2016 10:06:18 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: PROCON
... and as usual he will still violate Protocol
18 posted on 05/26/2016 10:08:16 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Tenacious 1

Obama is going to Hiroshima on Monday (Memorial Day)?

Just when I think he can’t sink any lower!


19 posted on 05/26/2016 10:08:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Tenacious 1
Obama is going to visit Hiroshima on our USA Memorial Day.

Gosh, that must have been the only date available on his busy Asian schedule.

Yet another slam in the face of America's veterans, especially those remaining of the Greatest Generation.

20 posted on 05/26/2016 10:09:34 AM PDT by llevrok (Lies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous.)
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