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At the time - and especially after witnessing his obsequious bowing and scraping to the Saudi king, and then other heads of state - I thought it to just mean a purposeful insult to our long time ally.

But it may have this other meaning as well. “I’m not a loyal British subject - see me diss the Queen!”

What a great point that you both draw out here! I had forgotten about that fact. It also brings to mind the poor treatment of Brown when he was here (I recall reading something about some cheap, obviously last minute, gifts that were gathered (DVDs (in the wrong format) in a basket?) and also the fact that a bust of Churchill and something else of highly historic national value was rudely being sent back to England).

Many wise observers have pointed out that the key is to watch his actions and listen less to his words. Certainly good advice with respect to the point you have made.

Reading the posts on this page also brought something else to mind -- "Common Sense." Not the pamphlet but the basic usage; it would only be the simple application of common sense for the framers to specifically add the Natural Born Citizen (born a citizen of citizen parentS) requirement to protect the Presidency from any potentially inherited foreign allegiance. It is a purely a common sense, highly practical, and very wise choice for them to have made. In that light, it is very easy to see that the original intent of this very specific requirement was to provide as a form of protection from usurpation.

And hence that leads me to the next point. As you may have seen in some of my other posts on the questions surrounding the very remarkable and often dramatic "anti-birther" efforts that we read daily, I have been struggling with trying to find a rationale for these efforts (i.e., to be able to rationalize them with the fact that they are being mounted by self-proclaimed "conservatives" with only the "best of intentions"). I've listed some of the key areas where the attempt to perform this rationalization just simply breaks down, and other have also contributed many other very germane points. What I have missed all along is the simple fact that none of it passes a simple "Common Sense" test.

So common sense is the key on both fronts:

the Founders used common sense to ensure another level of protection for the Executive branch, and did it in a very common sense manner!
and the key to understanding and comprehending the disturbing nature of the apparently irrational motives of the "conservative anti-birthers" is that it simply makes no common sense, at any level. They are arguing against a very common sense protection for reasons that simply make no common sense.

To me, it makes it all very easy to understand now. Thank you all very much for your contributions that finally penetrated my simple mind that all too often tends to over complicate issues to the point of distracting me from the very simple and obvious conclusions that are sitting there at the end of the nose on my face!

I think the the Saudi King, definitely his Muslim MASTER was the first he really bow to, halfway kneeling and Sarkozy seeing laughing his socks off!

He was then call on it even from the SRM!!

After that he start bowing to everybody as try to fool us that what is what he "normally" does out of respect, come-on LOL