Posted on 04/02/2009 5:38:19 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
An article on the games of the ninth Olympiad in the Encyclopedia of the modern Olympic Games takes note of the following: "The American team was also watched closely for their etiquette as they marched passed the reviewing stand. Led by AOC head MacArthur, the Yankee squad continued the American custom of refusing to bow to or salute any foreign monarch…"
Since he is no Olympian, when Barack Obama met with the King of Saudi Arabia recently he proffered what might be interpreted as a deep and unmistakeable bow. Whatever the eventual excuse given for this apparent obeisance, I doubt it will accompany the photo as it is reproduced in publications throughout the Islamic world.
Some people ascribe this alleged faux pas to Obama's ignorance of the proper protocol between Heads of State. Yet when he met with the Queen of England, he shook hands and nodded slightly, a correct and inoffensive greeting under the circumstances. (See the Youtube videos now playing under the heading "Did you Catch that?" to the left.) It appears that the State Department's Acting Chief of Protocol may have briefed him after all.
The difference suggests not ignorance, but an intentional application of Obama's special knowledge.
Thanks to his years of Muslim schooling as a child in Indonesia (from 1967-1971 he lived there with his mother and Indonesian step father, who was like his Kenyan sire, of the Islamic faith), Obama is certainly aware of and sensitive to the special religious status and legitimacy claimed by the Saudi Monarch "as guardian of Mecca and Medina, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and of the Islamic faith." While we citizens of the American republic mull over the possible insult to the sovereignty and republican mores of the people Obama is supposed to represent, his gesture of religious fealty sends an unmistakable message to Muslim millions around the world. Could it be the proverbial wink that a con artist uses to communicate his real identity to those who are in on the sting?
Just another episode that, taken by itself, may mean nothing. But in the context of all we know, and ominously don't know, about the background and policies of the present occupant of the White House, it is as Arsenio Hall used to say, one of those "things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm."
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I guess we know who he works for, now.
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I don’t recognize Obama as president...but I’m just saying
that the POTUS bows before NO MUSLIM!
Completely out of phase with the Founders of this free republic too. After all, their battle cry was: "NO KING BUT JESUS!"
We have no King but Jesus. It's what my ancestors said, at Alamance and King's Mountain.
So now we know what nation and people he's really loyal to.
And he may even be a Wahabi.
This guy is a lot of firsts.
He's apparently the first traitor President.
Put the SOB on trial and throw him out of office. He is not our President.
He wasn’t bowing. He was showing...Just earlier he had said to the king...”Barney Frank likes me in this position.”
The world is laughing as our “Usurper In Chief” and the First Cow make asses of themselves.
These two make Jed and Granny Clampett look suave and cosmopolitan.
There is nothing our “allies” enjoy more than seeing America diminished - especially at the hands of our own mock President.
And what the hell is the matter with that suit Obama is wearing? It shines like leather.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but I can think of one that best describes this photograph...
TREASON
Notice Obama did NOT do his Power Play of putting his hand on the King’s shoulder!!! he KNOWS that the MUSLIM KING is ihs SUPERIOR.
Dr. Keyes is discussing this right now on our Thursday night AIP National Town Hall conference call...
The numbers are here if anyone would like to join in:
http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2387&posts=85
Well, if he is not bowing to the king....then we ought to really think twice about those homosexuality rifts that have been mentioned about our boy Barack. Looks like he is about ready to get down on his knees and service the sultan
butt out!
Maybe The Kenyan bowed because he knows the King has acquired a copy of a certain 1961 Kenyan birth certificate.
Imagine how much certain governments around the world would pay for that or the leverage it would bring to the government that possessed it.
With over 40 lawsuits currently pending in the courts, The Kenyan still won’t produce his original birth certificate. Now that means either his narcissism has kicked into hyper-drive and there’s something so embarrassing on it he’s psychologically unable to tolerate the embarrassment OR the original document confirms he’s ineligible to be POTUS under Article II of the Constitution.
Either way he’s the 1st president in American history that’s subject to being blackmailed if any foreign country has turned up a copy or has copies of his college records which may show him registered as a foreign student.
Doesn’t that leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling?
Maybe Barack Hussein knows more about the Muslim world than anyone else in America. After all he spent some time in
Paaakistaaan. Or maybe it’s simply because he’s a freaking Muslim.
I believe the guy on the far left of the picture is North Korea. He seems to be getting a kick out of Obama!
I think everyone now knows that in the Muslim world a purple-lipped community organizer always bows to a king.
Pimp suit.
I'm surprised he wasn't wearing a hat with a big feather in it.
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