"They're scrutinizing his every gesture." 
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.
The mere fact that he is going to the memorial is extremely bad optics.
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.
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.
It needs to be!
It’s his second apologize and grovel tour.
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.
Japan allows muslims now?
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.
He will curtsy to the Emperor.
“”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.
(1) April 30, 2016, Larry Wilmore called Obama a "nigga"which was not denied.
What an Assclown!
Weak bough gives strong bow.
He will flush the USA down the toilet. Nothing new here.
The Japanese did not sign the Geneva Convention rules of war. It might however been just as effective to turn Mt Fujiama into a glass platter.
Given the treatment the Japanese meted out. Obama should just say “We won, you lost “
He’s going to announce something like Hiroshima induces in him “national reflection” or something like that:
the term reflection is very widely understood in Japan to mean a non-apology apology, meaning the apology you give when you cannot for some reason officially apologize.
Let me give the strongest assurance that he would be widely understood in Japan as apologizing if he uses this word reflection.
another less likely possibility is that he will use the occasion to announce some cut in US nuclear arms or force posture.
Ødungo could F up a marble...
I wonder if he'll turn into a human "beat box" again like he just did in Vietnam the other day. Don't those words and gestures count?
"They're scrutinizing his every gesture."