| Author | Message | ||
     Sifo |
WTF! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11 /obama-emperor-akihito-japan.html
(Message edited by SIFO on November 14, 2009) | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Gee we are weak, we dont even warrant paper tiger status. Thanks o'bama. Who was your state dept protocol adviser on that one? | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Perhaps, he's just looking at the pattern in the floor. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Well next time he can just pull out his d*** & p*** on whoever, will that make you any happier?  | ||
| Roadcouch98 |
Why Yes, Yes that would. It's been a while since this Country's leaders have put it to anyone. | ||
| Gregtonn |
"Well next time he can just pull out his d*** & p*** on whoever, will that make you any happier?" You bet it would! G  | ||
| Gregtonn |
Uh, well I guess that is assuming he has a d***. He's certainly lacking balls. G | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
There you go, Hilary schmilary, I can do all your foreign policy stuff from my house. | ||
| Sifo |
If he did that the rest of the world would at least think that we were weak. This is a demonstration to the entire world, friend and foe, that we are weak. Not good in any way, shape or form. | ||
| Fahren |
Respect for an elder, perhaps? Presidents are coached as to how to act with regard to foreign customs. Do you think the US is so weak that we have to get into stupid, macho Cheney - er, I mean Dick - measuring contests to prove our strength? The strongest have nothing to prove to anyone, and only gain by acting magnanimous and gracious to others. (Message edited by fahren on November 14, 2009) | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Nah, he's just bent over that far so nobody can read his lips as he says, "Listen you slant eyed bastard we bombed the f*** out of you once & we can do it again!" These comments are made with no malice & purely for the purposes of entertainment. If you have been offended by the comments, don't complain to me because I don't give a toss. (Message edited by mr_grumpy on November 14, 2009) | ||
| Joebuell |
this pic will be used for terrorist recruitment to show that the US is weak. /thread | ||
| Sifo |
Respect for an elder, perhaps? Presidents are coached as to how to act with regard to foreign customs. Do you think the US is so weak that we have to get into stupid, macho Cheney - er, I mean Dick - measuring contests to prove our strength? The strongest have nothing to prove to anyone, and only gain by acting magnanimous and gracious to others. There's a huge difference between showing respect and showing subservience. This is a clear demonstration of subservience. | ||
| Dentguy |
Right after his bow he probably apologized on behalf of our country for something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd425zfw5Ew&feature =related | ||
| Rocketsprink |
man. you people need to get a f(_)cking life. Really. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
I find it humorous Obama is bent over at a 90 degree angle and he's still taller than the Emperor...... if you count that lump on Barrak's back ....lmao (Message edited by Ferris_von_bueller on November 14, 2009) | ||
| Rocketsprink |
this is by far worse. WHAT A TOTAL MORON!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjIb6trxBI | ||
| Aesquire |
Obama's excuse with the king of Arabia was that the king was short & he had to lean over to be eye to eye. He lied. The King's not that short. The Emperor of Japan is that short, ( that he would have to lean over to be face to face ) but he is not face to face, he is subservient. That fits well with his policy of American unexceptionalism, and kowtowing to dictators, since we are just another country in Obama's view. I, disagree, but he's the one bowing. Yeah, Bush at least had a sense of humor about his minor mistakes. Hey, his dad puked on the Prime Minister of Japan! Beat that one! ( yeah, yeah, food poisoning, & you have to go to these things, but still......Ralph!!! ) | ||
| 4cammer |
Rocketsprink- you know Bush is not the president anymore, right? And the POTUS should bow to nobody. What a little piece of milktoast. | ||
| Gregtonn |
"Do you think the US is so weak that we have to get into stupid, macho Cheney - er, I mean Dick - measuring contests to prove our strength?" Cheney has both a spine and a brain. Obama lacks the former and Joe Biden the latter. G | ||
| Dentguy |
"man. you people need to get a f(_)cking life. Really." and then.... "this is by far worse. WHAT A TOTAL MORON!!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjIb6trxBI I guess that means you need to get a f(_)cking life also. | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
Just wondering, does anybody know the proper way to bow to A fellow leader? according to Their custom not ours? | ||
| Gregtonn |
"Just wondering, does anybody know the proper way to bow to A fellow leader? according to Their custom not ours?" In Japanese custom Obama would bow to the same degree as the Japanese leader, no more no less. G | ||
| Froggy |
These political threads are a load of Pelosi. | ||
| Tbolt_pilot |
From having lived in Japan for a few years... AND from traveling in support of the previous President... The depth of the bow depends on several things. Yes, the depth of the bow is most times dependent on whether they are a superior. But it is also polite to bow deeper for elders or in a first meeting in a formal setting (as this is for sure). The more formal the setting, the more pronounced the bow. Like when meeting someone at a bar having a few beers it would be a handshake and barely a head nod. But when meeting the mayor of the prefecture where the base was, it was a very pronounced bow. Now, the reasons that BO bows for.. I dunno. | ||
| F_skinner |
From having lived in Japan for a few years Misawa by chance? | ||
| Xb12xmike |
I miss Bush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEbZqvMu2cQ&feature =related | ||
| Whatever |
Jesus, don't you guys have anything better to do with your time...  | ||
| Tbolt_pilot |
Yokota. "Jesus, don't you guys have anything better to do with your time..." No. I'm posting as long as my wife is cleaning. Otherwise I'll have to clean too. | ||
| Dbird29 |
Cut n Paste from Hotair.com Douglas Jehr, in a 1994 New York Times report, made it clear that had Clinton actually executed a full bow, it would have destroyed a precedent dating to the founding of the Republic: It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan. Canadians still bow to England’s Queen; so do Australians. Americans shake hands. If not to stand eye-to-eye with royalty, what else were 1776 and all that about? … Guests invited to a white-tie state dinner at the White House (a Clinton Administration first) were instructed to address the Emperor as “Your Majesty,” not “Your Highness” or, worse, “King.” And in what one Administration aide called “some emperor thing,” an Army general was cautioned that he should not address the Emperor Akihito at all as he escorted him to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. But the “thou need not bow” commandment from the State Department’s protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years. Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President had not really done the unthinkable. The New York Times didn’t have much to say after Obama’s bow to Abdullah despite having scolded Clinton in this manner for almost bowing to Akihito. Now that Obama has done “the unthinkable” twice, and this time to Akihito, will the New York Times have anything to say about it? |
