Posted on 11/15/2009 5:24:13 PM PST by RobinMasters
It didn’t take too long for the Left to defend Barack Obama’s bow to Emperor Akihito yesterday by claiming that the President was merely showing cultural sensitivity to the Japanese emperor by deeply bowing. There’s a couple of problems with that argument. First, American Presidents do not bow to monarchs, or at least they didn’t through the first 43 Presidents and the 220 years they served as the US head of state. Perhaps a few of them might have done so out of cultural sensitivity when traveling to foreign nations as private citizens, either before or after their terms in office, but not when they represented the United States of America. Even the New York Times knew better than that in 1994.
For those arguing that such a policy merely propagates American arrogance and that Obama wants to “change perceptions,” this video by the UConn College Republicans points out the second problem. Heads of state do not bow and show obeisance to one another, regardless of whether either one is an American President. The UConn group reviews 47 different greetings to Emperor Akihito and various heads of state, including a few from fellow Pacific Rim countries with similar cultural sensitivities, and doesn’t find a bow among them:
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Ping.
Help me out here.
Wasn’t it Obammie the Commie who, once again, insulted Americans by saying that we were so culturally stupid that when we go to France all we know how to say is Mercy Beaucoup?
So this jacka$$, who also doesn’t speak French, also bows in such a way as to make himself look like a fool.
The affirmative-action president proves, once again, the failures of affirmative action.
The 0 needs a “Kick Me” sign taped to his back.
What a clown.
I can’t believe we’re represented by Omoslem!
If he didn’t hate the USA, I’d feel slightly better.
OMG! I’d forgotten that one! Great recall on your part!
How soon can we end this? Do we really have to wait another three years?
Hold it right there and back up that bus.
Refusing to defer to monarchies is American arrogance, but
Insistence by subjects in monarchies that any US president bow to any monarch on earth is considered...
What?
Damned arrogance?
[Obambis bow to the Japanese emperor made him look like] 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.
I met Newt Gingrich on the ramp once. I wasn’t impressed with his handshake. But he didn’t bow either.
Actually there were only 42 Presidents before the current occupant of the White House—Grover Cleveland gets counted twice (#22 and #24) because his two terms were not consecutive.
Unnecessary - if this is so Obama can save face. Obama is incapable of feeling embarrassed by his own conduct, or by anything except our country. He thinks everything he does is by definition right, just as everything America has ever done was wrong. Sadly, so do all of his followers. If, on the other hand, they are doing it for themselves, to save on the embarrassment of having invited an evil thug to visit as their guest, then I understand completely.
It’s absolutely devastating to watch.
This happens to be among the most hilarious photos I have ever seen on this site - if, like me, you can find great humor in terrifically sad commentaries on what has happened to this Nation and our leadership.
TOTUS on his shoes saying “Kow Tow” - Simply brilliant!!
a) completely white hair
b) seriously herniated disk in the lower back from too much bowing and scraping overseas
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