What an obsequious half-wit!

[Tarheel]

The ONE meets the islamist state monarch and bows deeply.  I really despise The ONE more and more each day.

It used to be that the President of the United States of America bowed to no one!

But, here's your president doing just that:





Here's the story for those interested:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/obama_bows_down_to_saudi_king.html

[AUTiger1]

The ONE meets the islamist state monarch and bows deeply.  I really despise The ONE more and more each day.

It used to be that the President of the United States of America bowed to no one!

But, here's your president doing just that:

I guess that is all part of this hope and change for you.  Although that picture gave me no hope, it definitely showed me something had changed.

[Tarheel]

I guess that is all part of this hope and change for you.  Although that picture gave me no hope, it definitely showed me something had changed.

The ONE was showing his best side; while also being an ass.

[Thrilla]

He most likely was on his way down to his knees.

[Tarheel]

Drudge has noted that the White House just today is denying that The ONE actually bowed to the Saudi king despite the video evidence (and photo, posted in this thread by the way).  I would have thought that The ONE purposefully did this since he's such a self-proclaimed weltbuerger.  For whatever reason this little stunt vexes me greatly.

While some of the leftist MSM don't consider this a story I refer to the left-of-center Washington Times which has editorialized repeatedly that this gesture by a U. S. President is "shocking" (noted below).  I had forgotten about it but even Bubba Clinton was criticized heartily for partially nodding to Emperor Akihito of Japan (also noted below). 

(Of course for those who think I don't criticize President Bush, there's a picture of him holding the king's hand while the king visited his ranch in Texas...you can find that one on your own.)

Well, I guess that The ONE could have been picking up a bar of gold that King Abdullah dropped.

Here's a little excerpt on this insanity from The Politico.com (they have the video from Italian TV on this post showing what is clearly a bow):

Ben Smith's Blog
April 08, 2009

White House: No bow to Saudi


The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.

"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Washington Times called the alleged bow a  "shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate" and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted that American protocol apparently rules out bowing, or at least it reportedly did on the occasion of a Clinton "near-bow" to the emperor of Japan.
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Link:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/White_House_No_bow_to_Saudi.html

[RWS]

Its been great hearing him traveling the globe badmouthing Americans the past week. Now everybody thinks we are a bunch of pussies. We're not perfect or anything, but fuck everybody else. We're American.  :thumbsup:

[Tarheel]

Its been great hearing him traveling the globe badmouthing Americans the past week. Now everybody thinks we are a bunch of pussies. We're not perfect or anything, but fuck everybody else. We're American.  :thumbsup:

I don't think that American Exceptionalism is quite dead yet...but it has taken several body blows the last couple of weeks.