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U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.

The mayor of Tampa isn’t a Third World potentate, totalitarian dictator, or terrorist leader so I can’t understand why Obama would be in full-bow mode. Is bowing now the standard way the President greets people these days? Is he misoriented, for some reason, and thinks Tampa is a terrorist stronghold or an enemy of the United States? Does the US owe Tampa a boatload of money and the bow just good business practice?

Check out the video. After his brief, listless and cliché-ridden speech in Copenhagen ["time for action, not words," "we should live in the future, not the past"] that aired live on Morning Joe today, Pres. Obama makes the hand-shaking rounds on the podium. He continues the glad-handing off the podium, until he spots someone and breaks into . . . a bow [screen cap after the jump]. With all the mulling around, it's hard to determine exactly what's going on. It looks like he might have been exchanging bows with a man in the scrum surrounding him. But PBO's bow...

JOIN THE MOCKING IN SONG - the classic "SUKIYAKI"

Seeking photos of Obama bowing, to anyone, anything, anywhere.

Meet Obama's Trainer. Pay is probably low, but the guy in the white house is a fast learner.

President Barry Hussein Soetoro by his own admission is a man who is concerned with notions. The word ‘victory’ conveys the wrong notion has far as Soetoro is concerned. So naturally I’m curious about what notion does Mr. Soetoro think he is sending each time he as President of the United States of America curtseys before a foreign monarch? If in Soetoro’s mind the word victory conveys the wrong notion, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, what notion does pictures of him bowing before the Saudi King and now the Japanese Emperor send?

We all remember when Obama nauseated freedom-loving Americans with his groveling bow before the King of Saudi Arabia. Apparently his inability to stand upright in front of a royal extends to Japan's Emperor, too, as the LA Times reports in this disheartening photo. For 200 years, our elected Presidents proudly stood before the heads of state the world over, even those who claimed divinity. We were over all that divine-right-of-kings nonsense. Or so we thought. Strange that he doesn't engage in this kind of obsequious groveling to the Queen of England. For those who think I'm being too tough on...

I though Americans do not bow to members of royalty? The King of Saudi Arabia, and now the Japanese Emperor? And as the LA Times points out …. there was no reciprocal bow from the Emperor. Contrary to some claims, the video shows no reciprocal bow by the emperor, who traditionally bows to no one. And we’ve added a file photo from 2007 of Vice President Dick Cheney greeting the Japanese Emperor in the same door way in a different fashion. And all the Queen got was an ill advised pat on the back. I guess when it comes to...

Must be a Saudi prince.

With the leaders of France, Germany and NATO slapping President Barack Obama around, and Obama undermining U.S. sovereignty at every turn, he would have done better to conduct his world tour via GoToMeeting.com.

Has anyone ever seen Barack Obama publicly bow and bend his knee when meeting someone prior to yesterday? I don't recall any photos of such a gesture of greeting, but I would be very happy if some of the President's defenders on the left could provide such evidence that his striking body language yesterday before the monarch of Saudi Arabia and custodian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina was simply a habitual gesture of warmth. (See also: Obama bows down to Saudi King and Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king?) When meeting the Saudi...

I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a President of the United States. Update (for the doubters who claim this was not a bow). Here is a video of the unmistakable bow: (hat tip: Michelle Malkin) Update: See Miss Manners on the protocol. Americans do not bow to foreign monarchs because that act signified the monarch's power over his subjects. Here is the protocol from the Queen of England's website -- which applies even to her own subjects: "The Queen meets thousands of people each year in the UK and overseas. Before meeting...

Why is the POTUS bowing to Saudi royalty? (.53sec mark on the video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60U-hl35Gw

"Grace", we are taught by Holy Mother Church, "is a participation in the life of God" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, §1997) – and Mary, the Angel Gabriel declares, is filled with it! Filled with the life of God, participating in the life of God as no other human being in history. She alone is full of grace, she alone participates consummately in the life of God – even before she bore His Son.Why? Because she was to bear His Son. It was from Mary that Jesus took His Sacred Humanity. It was from Mary that He took His...

TEHRAN, July 09 (ISNA)-Iran has successfully overhauled five 747 Bowings. This is while before this, Iranian airlines had to send their planes to foreign companies, but today Iran has gained the ability to carryout this service with much lower expenses. "Of course we can not deny the negative effects of the placed airplane part sanctions, but we have removed many of the obstacles through the aid of airlines," said the executing company's manager.

PARIS - President Jacques Chirac on Monday scrapped a controversial part of a youth labor law that triggered massive protests and strikes, bowing to intense pressure from students and unions and dealing a blow to his loyal premier in a bid to end the crisis. Unions celebrated what they called "a great victory," and also were deciding whether to keep up the protests. The top two student union UNEF and FIDL said they would press on with demonstrations Tuesday across France. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who devised the law, had faced down protesters for weeks, insisting that its most...

ROME, JUNE 1, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Answered by Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University. Q: 1) Is the crucifix essential to the celebration of the Mass? 2) When the priest comes to the altar, does he bow toward the altar? At the end of Mass, the priest venerates the altar; does he bows toward the crucifix or the tabernacle? 3) During the consecration prayer ("Take this ...") the concelebrants extend their hands, but they do not do this uniformly. Some extend the hand with palm downward, while others extend it with palm open toward the...