Japan expert to ABC : Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot

Hot Air ^ | November 13, 2009 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[RobinMasters]

So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.

The good news for O-bots? It wasn’t unprecedented. Nixon evidently made a modest bow to Hirohito in the early 70s. The bad news?

“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.

“Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.

“The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms….The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.

[RobinMasters]

Ping.

[BunnySlippers]

Bump

[SevenofNine]

LOL!

[browniexyz]

Hillary’s “protocol people” are getting a HUGE laugh out of this ONE!!!

[Salvation]

**Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot**

And the advisory staff who told him this was protocol are likewise idiots!

[Graybeard58]

The bow was meant to convey "I don't just bow to muzzie bastards, I bow to everybody".

[ReneeLynn]

That can’t be! The Bamster is NEVER wrong! He needs no advice on how to bow from anyone. The Japanese are undoubtedly wrong. /s

[rintense]

If he had simply bowed and held eye contact, it would have been MUCH better. In Asian cultures, acquiescing eye contact is a sign of weakness, and sometimes an acknowledgment that the person across from you is ‘greater’.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

WTF did we do to deserve this bozo???

[browniexyz]

It really is hilarious. RAHM to the State Department Department of Protocol: “Are you sure he has to bow below the Emperor’s navel?” HILLARY’s PROTOCOL STAFF: “Yes, and lower if he can manage it. And he should stay perfectly still until the Royal Empereror GETS A PHOTO OF THE BOW!!”

[COBOL2Java]

How many world leaders bow to the Emperor of Japan?

Answer: Only one

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well HELLOOO???!!!

[Gargantua]

This inexperienced, self-absorbed, puffed-up public-tit sucker is in so far above his pay-grade that he doesn't even know he makes us all look like a bunch of ass-monkeys.

Good grief.

;-/

[muir_redwoods]

He’s a child in the grown-up world. We will be lucky to survive him without further damage.

[wayne_shrugged]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386717/posts

[TheDailyChange]

I believe 0bama is bending way over again to simply hide the fact the he is a Muslim.

This way, he can say, look at me, I am simply a humble president that shows humility to all dignitaries.

[digger48]

Hillary’s “protocol people” are getting a HUGE laugh out of this ONE!!!

[ErnBatavia]

Ahem...whip it on

[LostInBayport]

the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs

That is probably accurate. I can envision Obama's classless lefty staff renting a DVD of The Karate Kid as research for how to instruct Obama to behave before the Emperor. After all, this is the administratiion that gave the Queen of England an Ipod and a $20 set of unrefined public domain movies to Gordon Brown.