Outrage over Obama's bow

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Obama may have bowed but the Reps have stooped to a new level of pathetic.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World...8500/16-11-2009-05-22/Outrage_over_Obamas_bow

Washington - News photos of US President Barack Obama bowing to Japan's emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas.

Obama on Monday was in China, having wrapped up the Japan leg of his Asia trip two days earlier. But Washington's punditocracy was still weighing whether or not the US president had disgraced his country two days earlier by having taken a deep bow at the waist while meeting Japan's Emperor Akihito.


It's not appropriate for an American president to bow to a foreign one," said conservative pundit William Kristol speaking on the Fox News Sunday programme, adding that the gesture bespoke a United States that has become weak and overly-deferential under Obama.

Another conservative voice, Bill Bennett, said on CNN's State of the Union programme: "It's ugly. I don't want to see it."

'We don't defer to emperors'

"We don't defer to emperors. We don't defer to kings or emperors. The president of the United States - this coupled with so many apologies from the United States - is just another thing," said Bennett.

Some conservative critics juxtaposed the image of Obama with one of former US vice president Dick Cheney, who greeted the emperor in 2007 with a firm handshake but no bow.

"I'll bet if you look at pictures of world leaders over 20 years meeting the emperor in Japan, they don't bow," Kristol said.
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Firstly Mr Kristol, Nixon bowed to Hirohito so go to your room and do your homework.

We don't defer to emperors - it's not appropriate?

Get a life ! But keep diverting attention from your own party's failings if it makes you feel better.

What a bunch of arrogant childish snivelly wussy-pants.

And bring it on Bush lovers - I look forward to your support of these babies.
 
I noticed that Obama had two different conferences in Japan, first press conference with the minister he acted as an equal, but later he had to up the rhetoric in the other conference because he looked tame and weak in the first.:D
 
daveza said:
Obama may have bowed but the Reps have stooped to a new level of pathetic.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World...8500/16-11-2009-05-22/Outrage_over_Obamas_bow



Firstly Mr Kristol, Nixon bowed to Hirohito so go to your room and do your homework.

We don't defer to emperors - it's not appropriate?

Get a life ! But keep diverting attention from your own party's failings if it makes you feel better.

What a bunch of arrogant childish snivelly wussy-pants.

And bring it on Bush lovers - I look forward to your support of these babies.
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Storm in a tea cup.

I see it as a gesture of respect, respect for their customs etc.
I actually think it's called manners.
:)
 
Some people don't like the taste of their own medicine :erm:
 
iDenTiTy said:
Storm in a tea cup.

I see it as a gesture of respect, respect for their customs etc.
I actually think it's called manners.
:)
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True.

Next time a westerner extends his arm for a hand-shake the orientals should they just ignore it.

If it was bowing to the queen, it would be a totally different.
 
iDenTiTy said:
True. Democrats don't shoot their friends in the face.
:D
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No they trash their own granmother for political gain

I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. "
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMWfQl_Qeg&feature=related[/ame]


Humping from the pulpit. Praise the lord.
 
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Frankie said:
If it was bowing to the queen, it would be a totally different.
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+1



The first time I read this I was like fsck yeah! :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States#Flag_etiquette
Flag etiquette
Main article: United States Flag Code
The United States Flag Code outlines certain guidelines for the use, display, and disposal of the flag. For example, the flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. (This tradition may come from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: the American flag bearer did not. Team captain Martin Sheridan is famously quoted as saying "this flag dips to no earthly king", though the true provenance of this quotation is unclear.[15][16])
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http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/news/mc080608.htm
 
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Dipping a flag and politely bowing to a Japanese person when greeting him are two entirely different things.

What Obama did was simple good manners, and any American business man who has been to Japan to meet management from another company would have bowed in the same manner.

GAWD these bloody Republican nitpickers are totally pathetic! :mad:
 
Fazda said:
Dipping a flag and politely bowing to a Japanese person when greeting him are two entirely different things.

What Obama did was simple good manners, and any American business man who has been to Japan to meet management from another company would have bowed in the same manner.

GAWD these bloody Republican nitpickers are totally pathetic! :mad:
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That's what I said. The flag issue was something I brought up which I found interesting and agree with.

I also said him bowing is a non-issue. It relates to politeness/manners&customs.

I used a big space between the two issues hoping people would not assume they are related.

Eish, now I'm a repuglican.
 
lol @ this thread. Hissy fits over some people having a hissy fit over something so trivial.

I'm more concerned about his lunatic mentor, advisers and confidants than a few loony bloggers......
 
ponder said:
That's what I said. The flag issue was something I brought up which I found interesting and agree with.

I also said him bowing is a non-issue. It relates to politeness/manners&customs.

I used a big space between the two issues hoping people would not assume they are related.

Eish, now I'm a repuglican.
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LOL No you are NOT a repuglican :D

It's way past my bedtime, and I was simply making a point and added the flag bit...I was actually agreeing with you alll along...
 
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