Bowing to the king
He gives the PM of the United Kingdom a box of movies that don’t work on European DVD players. He gives the Queen of England an iPod. He bows to the king of Saudi Arabia.
What message is President Obama sending? You’d almost rather believe that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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Obama out of touch
about 6 months ago - No comments
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History repeats: Obama = Hoover
about 7 months ago - No comments
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Bring them home
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
The sooner we get out of Afghanistan, the better. When we have to pay the Taliban a billion dollars a year to protect our supply convoys, it’s time to leave.
This explains a lot
about 8 months ago - No comments
Since over 80% of Americans work in the private sector, how is it that President Obama found so few with private sector experience worth appointing to key economic Cabinet posts?
President Clearance
about 8 months ago - 2 comments
A friend snapped this picture at a KMart in western Ohio over the weekend. Do you think someone was making a political statement?
about 1 year ago
He’s putting something down that was in his left hand. Not bowing. Where was your outrage when GW walked thru the White House arm-in-arm with this same Saudi scum??
about 1 year ago
Look at the picture. Watch the YouTube video. There’s nothing on which the president could put anything.
He bowed. It was inappropriate at best.
Now, disregarding the clear difference between a gesture of friendship and one of submission, and since you obviously have never read this blog or listened to any of our podcasts, I’ll simply note that I’ve been just as critical of George W. Bush as of Barack Obama. The Bush family’s cozy relationship with the ruling house of an unfriendly nation is unacceptable.
You want more? I recommend research into the Bush family’s connection to the finances of the National Socialist Party. Then look at the Nazis’ support of the Muslim Brotherhood. Then look at Grover Norquist and his influence in the Republican Party. That should give you some idea of what’s going on out there.
Hey, but what do I know? I criticized President Obama so I must be a right-wing nut job.
about 1 year ago
I watched the YouTube video many times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAnBMkqRJW0), and he’s clearly not picking anything up. His hand is visible during the bow.
In the Asian culture, bowing may be a common greeting, but in this case, the bowing isn’t mutual. Given they’re heads of state, the symbolism is the United States is bowing to Saudi Arabia and not vice versa.
If his handlers said he must bow for protocol, perhaps he should have skipped over Saudi Arabia on the trip.
about 1 year ago
Bowing is protocol in Asian nations, but it is absolutely not the case in Islamic countries.
As mentioned above, it is a gesture of submission, not courtesy, and Muslims bow only to Allah.
about 1 year ago
Seeing Bush arm-in-arm with the Saudi king was nauseating to the nth degree–seeing this new prez actually paying that king hommage, through bowing to him, is bone-chilling, to me, as an American citizen.
What in the world is our new president doing by bowing himself to the king of another country? Our own president, who hails from a nation that was founded on republican principles, which are so antithetically opposed to it’s citizens being ruled over by, or subjected to the whims of, an earthly monarch of any kind–is seen bowing himself to that king?
Perhaps our electing this new president is turning out to be one very gigantic mistake on our parts, of the worst kind–and, even though I heard some liberal Obama supporter rudely exclaim that he believes “The masses are asses”, when refering to the American people, today on Fox News[I believe he was refering to this economic disaster we are suffering from right now, and blaming every American citizen for being it's cause], his misplaced, ignorant devotion to, as well as blind defense of, this new president, will definitely not stop many of us from taking a second, much closer, much harder look, at just who in the world actually was elected into the highest office of our land.
Because, this new president does not appear to love our country, nor us, nor does he seem to respect our country, and it’s constitution, or respect us, in the manner that each American citizen elected to that office definitely needs to openly display, especially to the rest of this world, much of which has been so very hostile towards us over the years.
about 1 year ago
Disturbing to say the least…