Nixons' "bow"
Posted on 11/15/2009 5:13:39 PM PST by RobinMasters
It's still early.
If you put them together yourself, maybe someone would like to have them. DrudgeReport, BigGovernment.com, etc
EXACTLY!! Love the photo!! “Let’s push the reset button for Obama’s re-election, oK?”- Hillary
The TelePrompTer made him do it.
““Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel”
This article had to get a Bush jab in, didn’t it? The Nipponese might wish for the day that the USA will come to their defense. All you foreign libs will need someone to protect your sorry coward asses.
Nixons' "bow"
The bow was meant to convey “I don’t just bow to muzzie bastards, I bow to everybody”.
The bow was meant to convey “I don’t just bow to muzzie bastards, I bow to everybody”.
The bow was meant to convey “I don’t just bow to muzzie bastards, I bow to everybody”.
*bears repeating*
>>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.<<
Or perhaps he’s a closet Otaku and learned all about Japan from watching low level “H” (anime porn).
obama - A study of a brain on drugs.
If you look at the youtube video of the bow, as he approached the empress, the old lady looked alarmed and kept backing up.
I swear, the old emperor’s wife thinks Obama might mug her or something.
I was hoping someone would post something like this! Great job! Thanks for posting this.
Even Ralph Macchio seemed manly in comparison to this Kenyan pantywaist
“The bow was meant to convey “I don’t just bow to muzzie bastards, I bow to everybody”. “
I agree, I think it’s cover to minimize the commercial that will be run of him and the Saudi king in 2012. I could be wrong but hmmm. “See I bowed a couple times. Not just to the keepers of Mecca.
The bow in Japan is not , contrary to Western conventional thought, a gesture of submission. According to Japanese tradition, the human body has three “zones” . Heaven ( from the shoulders up) Man (from Shoulders to hip)and Earth ( from the hips down.) When one bows in Japan, one offers the highest of the body in respect, the heaven aspect. Obama is indeed as you say, prostrating himself, and Akihito Samma, is not bowing even a little, either because he i s surprised, or because he does not respect Obama.The real key is the empress, who is not bowing even a little.
They do not respect Obama enough to bow even a little.This is done with feeling in Japan, and is spontaneous.It is a thing involving a type of perception very different to Westerner's cultural ettiquette. A genuine bow can actually be felt in the heart. And Akihito knows this bow is all show.No heart. That is likely why he does not return Obama’s bow, even a little.Nor does the Empress. Obama , intent on being the skillful inter cultural president, shows here that he knows nothing of Japanese culture.Before one bows there is a brief glance at the eyes of the person to whom one bows, a spark. This is what Obama is missing, or they both would be bowing back.
Secondly, Obama should have bowed before he shook hands, in the proper way, with his hands on his upper thigh, and he should not have bowed so deeply, because he is not a Japanese subject... a slow respectful bow of 45 to 50 degrees would have been required in his case, if Obama knew the correct protocol, which he obviously does not. So it is a false submissive bow of a man who has little honor in the way of Japanese thinking. A man who wants something. A man not to be trusted.
Obama did not fool the Imperial couple even one little bit, and they are strained to remain polite, humoring Obama as it were. Patronizing conduct gets one no where fast in Japan. Generally Japanese folks know a genuine bow from a false one by the way it feels, a form of perception which few Westerners experience, but still some do.
Obama has idiots for protocol officers, or alternatively, he did not listen to what they had to say about it.
Obama would have been much better off simply shaking hands, instead of this empty, false bow, completely off in its lack of genuineness. The bow of a snake.
I predict that Obama will make little progress with his diplomatic agenda in Japan, he will give much, and receive little in return.
104 posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:02:13 AM by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
-PJ
The bow seems mutual in that pic.
If it is correct that the Japanese press is not showing the photo, it probably is because their in their culture it is so embarrassing as to be destructive to the government’s desire to continue as a major US ally.
But with the internet being what it is and with the Japanese public being as well informed as it is, I expect the photo has been viewed by millions by now.
Always....
Oh man, that picture is awesome! He looks like he just saw a mouse and desperately wants a chair to stand on!
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