White House Defends Obama’s Bow to Japanese Emperor as ‘Protocol’

breitbart.tv ^ | November 15, 2009 | .breitbart.tv

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Politico: A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.

[browniexyz]

Let’s give Obama a break — his Secretary of State is Hillary Clinton, after all — so Obama bowing to the Japanese Empoeror probably IS protocol, according to HIllary in HER regime...

[FrankR]

So, when in the hell did obama give a damn about protocol?

The U.S. President should bow to NO ONE. That says, "I'm assuming the position to kiss your ass..."...but isn't that really what "political correctness" is all about? Kissing @$$?

So long as you kiss their derierre and call them what they demand, give them what they demand and otherwise shut up, you're fine. If you don't, you're "astro-turf, redneck, racists with an attitude.".

Meanwhile, about 7 out of 10 black people you see look like they're pissed off at the world, and just looking for a reason to show their "bad self" to anyone who will listen...but, nothing is ever said about their "attitude".

A man on his knees is just half a man....

[chris_bdba]

That photo was of Bush and the KIng who was over 80 yo and blind so leading him by the hand was to keep him from falling nothing to do with being subserviant.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I disagree with that slightly. A man on his knees is in prayer or asking a woman to marry him.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Subservience, yes. At least he acknowledges his own personal inferiority among world leaders.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I hope he doesn't visit someplace where it is “protocol” to lie fully prostate when greeting the emperor.

[browniexyz]

Somewhere in the Dept of State...Hillary is laughing so hard the Diet Coke is coming out of her nose!!!!!

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Thank you! I have always wondered that!

Please go here and tell Pelosi’s damned daughter that

Take the poll first tho!

***Vote in the poll***

ARE YOU BOTHERED BY OBAMA BOWING TO THE CHINESE EMPEROR?

http://www.politico.com/arena/

[tiger63]

“obama sucks”

He is also a prick for the many other things this bozo bastard comes up with every day.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I was thinking THE Same thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol!

[FrankR]

Well, I didn't expect to have to micro-explain it, but I though since we were discussing bowing and subservience, it would be understood that it was meant in "subserviant" vein.

Sorry to confuse you, I'll try for smaller words and shorter sentences next time.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Be real careful your arrogance is showing.

[mvpel]

Okay, so the White House says it was "protocol."

The Office of the Chief of Protocol is the organization charged with the responsibility to "plan and execute Presidential Delegations abroad," and to "propose and purchase gifts to give foreign leaders."

Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall, nominated May 13 and sworn in as the Chief of Protocol on August 3, 2009 (having overcome some tax cheat problems like so many other Obama administration appointees) is the head of that Office.

On the web site of the Hillary Clinton Army blog, run by avid Hillary Clinton fangirl Gretchen Baer, there is a September 10 post entitled "Congratulations, Capricia Penavic Marshall!"

The post relates the following details:

Capricia was a tremendous help to me [Baer] on the Campaign Trail. She assisted me many times by doing the work necessary to allow the Hillcar to be included within Hillary's rallies.

She is always kind, friendly and very helpful, and I can see why both Hillary and Bill have trusted in Capricia for many years.

It's great to know that Hillary continues to surround herself with devoted, trustworthy, and extremely competent people.

A Fox News video indicates that Ambassador Marshall was the Clinton White House Social Secretary for eight years, and a WhoRunsGov profile indicates that she worked on the 1992 Clinton campaign. In other words, Ambassador Marshall was an executive of both the Bill and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns, and has been a trusted assistant to the Clintons for nearly 20 years.

She is quoted from her confirmation hearing:

“Understanding and appreciating different cultures was a core part of my upbringing... It will continue to be a central part of the Protocol Office as it shares the fabric of American life with a diplomatic community.”

So she's absolutely, positively NOT an amateur at international protocol.

Does anyone else begin to wonder if the 25 Region 1 DVDs for Tony Blair, or the bow to the Saudi king, or the bow to the emperor of Japan, or many other international gaffes, is not just yet another list of examples of Obama ignorance or arrogance, but part of an overarching plan by the evil genius Clintons and their minions to put Hillary in the White House in 2012?

Or even sooner than 2012, if Biden, Pelosi, and Byrd don't watch their backs? Secretary of State is the highest unelected position in the line of Presidential succession.

And what's Obama going to do about it if this is, in fact, what happened?

Go whining to the media, half of whom were in the tank for Hillary? Call one of Hillary Clinton's most trusted friends and cohorts, or Hillary herself, onto the carpet and chew her out, and/or fire her in disgrace, and thereby outrage and infuriate fully 46% of the Democrat Party delegates, including a full third of the superdelgates, who voted for her in the primary?

I'm beginning to suspect Obama's getting some first hand experience with old-school Clinton-style Arkansas hardball politics, and is finding that they put Chicago-style hardball politics to shame.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s not a US protocol, but it’s a protocol.

The “Emperor” of Japan should be required to kiss the bare ass of visiting US presidents.

[leapfrog0202]

I guess every other leader that has visited just didn’t realize what the right protocol was and now that we have zer0 he can educate the other world leaders on proper protocol. Aren’t we glad that we are the only country that has a leader that is so “up” on the latest protocol?

[browniexyz]

You know, you are right about the “emperor” — because if there were no Douglas MacArthur, there would be no “Emperor”, CORRECT?????????

[Nasher]

I was under the impression that he only bowed once. Just watched the Breitbart video and was stunned. Zero resembles one of these:

Without a teleprompter, this guy is so clueless.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Why has this story and picture disappeared off of Drudge when he broke it days ago?

[FrankR]

Well......it’s MY arrogance to show....

[caveat emptor]