Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same plane as other regimes based on tribal privilege and royal bloodlines. He gives expressive form to the idea that the United States now willingly prostrates itself before the rest of the world. He declares that the United States is a country like any other, only worse, because we have so much for which to apologize.More Video: Infidels Are Cool.
Also blogging:
If I missed anyone, just let me know in the comments, or by e-mail, and I'll add your link to the roundup!* American Digest, "If a US President Had Just Done This in January 1942 It Would Have Saved Everyone a Lot of Trouble."
Another Black Conservative, "Bow Wow! Obama Bows Again."
* Astute Bloggers, "FOR BOWING DOWN TO ANOTHER FOREIGN KING, OBAMA HAS ONCE AGAIN PROVEN HE IS UNFIT FOR OFFICE AND NEEDS TO BE EFFIN IMPEACHED."
* Atlas Shrugs, "Obowa: Another Country, Another Deep Bow."* Berman Post, "Obama Bows to The Emperor of Japan."
* The Blog Prof, "Video: Obama Drops Yet Another Contact Lens in Front of Royalty."
* Chicks on the Right, "Inappropriate."
* Confederate Yankee, "O-Bow-Ma."
* Don Surber, "Obama, Bow Wow Wow."
* Fausta's Blog, "Say No to the Bow."
* Gateway Pundit, "He Did It Again… Obama Gives Japanese Emperor a Waiter Bow."
* Hot Air, "Obamateurism of the Day."* Hot Air Pundit, "Video: Obama Bows To The Emperor Of Japan."
* Left Coast Rebel, "Obama Bowing to Japan Emperor Akihito."
* Macsmind, "President "O-Bow" to Anyone."
* Maggie's Farm, "Life Imitates Satire."
* Neo-Neocon, "Obama: “Ashamed of His Country but Arrogant About Himself”."
* Nice Deb, "Obama Bows Yet Again."
* Protein Wisdom, "Obama “Bows Deeply” - UPDATED: Attention Leftists!."
* Riehl World View, "The Boy King: Where Do O Bow Now?"
* Ruby Slippers, "Take a Bow Barack."
* Sandra Rose, "OBAMA BOWS DOWN AGAIN."* Snooper's Report, "The Bowing Moron In the Marxist House...He's An ASSHAT."
* Sister Toldjah, "I Guess This Wasn’t Really a “Bow” Either, Eh, Mr. President?"
*Sweetness and Light, "Obama Bows Again – Japanese Emperor."
* Weasel Zippers, "Does Obama Think He ONLY Represents America When He Bows Inferiorly?: BO Bows Again..This Time To Emporer of Japan, Akihito...(Please Bring Your Best Snark)."*WyBlog, "Obama bows before Japanese Emperor Akihito."
Added: Linked at Orthogonal Musings, "I Think I Finally Get It."
Plus, Carolyn Tackett, "For the Love of God, STAND UP!," and SWAC Girl, "Obama's Worldwide Apology Tour Continues ..." Also, Israel Matsav, "He Won't Bow to Netanyahu Because Israel Didn't Murder Americans," and Cold Fury, "“How to Greet a Japanese Emperor”."
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UPDATE: President Ronald Reagan didn't bow to Emperor Hirohito (other way around, actually). See, Meredith Jessup, "This is Getting Embarrassing...":
thnx 4 lnkge.
ReplyDeleteobama's bow to akihito was stealth apology for winning ww2 and for winning by using nukes - which BTW saved 20 MILLION japanese lives.
obama = treasonous bastard.
You're welcome, Relia!
ReplyDeleteHad this item last night at half-past midnight:
ReplyDeleteIf a US President Had Just Done This in January 1942 It Would Have Saved Everyone a Lot of Trouble @ AMERICAN DIGEST
Added up top, Gerard! Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteThe left will spin this by saying Obama was showing respect to Japanese culture and that past presidents were too arrogant to respect the cultures of other nations.
ReplyDeleteI think I am going to start a fund to buy Obama a back brace for when he travels abroad. This way all he will be able to do is give slight nods of the head at best. Who's in?
"I think I am going to start a fund to buy Obama a back brace for when he travels abroad."
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, Clifton!
Thanks for the link back, I'll be sure to return the favor. I bow too you, lol.
ReplyDeleteObama. What a useless POS.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, LCR!
ReplyDeleteWell, that's putting it plainly, Mark (SR)!
ReplyDeleteHow is it that making an effort to show respect for another culture, rather than upholding a tradition of arrogance, ethnocentrism, and more testosterone-than-brains masculinity is a bad thing? Your wingnut ethnocentrism has left you all so insane as to be guided only by delusional aggression and constant fear of anything that does not conform to the bizarre brand of white male American bigotry you all find so comfortable. Your sentiment actually reads "If you're not like us, we do not respect you, and anyone who dares show you respect is an evildoer and a traitor!" I'm certain many of you simply won't understand why such sentiment is bad, though. It's very sad, what you neo-cons do to the US.
ReplyDeleteNot welcomed here, Anon. But your whacked comments will stay as an outlier for later commenters to ridicule.
ReplyDeleteanon...ANOTHER POS.
ReplyDeleteGreat perspective on the Oba-Mao bow. Tweeting and linking this one.
ReplyDeleteLeftist political commissars like TMV's Kattenburg, a bloated example of neo-Stalinist adoration of Dear Leadership, calls those Americans who decline to pluck the hems of the robes of kings and emperors "yokels."
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Kattenbulger's going to have a special agitprop cadre party line for Americans who object to Obambi's curtseying before Queen Elizabeth II.
Obama thought Akihito was a muslim and Obama bows to all muslim potentates; it is part of his religious obligation.
ReplyDeletequidpro...I don't get it?
ReplyDeleteOo, let me try one: Generic, "they're diffrunt than us", Obama hating, circle jerk rhetoric. How was that? Yeah, I could be a neocon.
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