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**Lafclaria** · 11-17-2009, 03:43 PM

The Saudi thing was a protocol guy who needed to get fired. Sure, Obama fucked up, but someone failed him to boot. This, on the other hand, is an example of the reactionary right laughably grasping at straws. I would even go so far as to say that I suspect Obama may have done this to bait the crazies out of the woodwork to marginalize themselves. Everyone knows that bowing is what you do in Japan.

Except for what he did was not a bow. It was some theatrical bow plus handshake hybrid.

Like I said, I dont think it was disrespectful, but I know for a fact that if this was Bush, Sigecaps and others would have been the first people to jump into it. Obama is way too full of himself to do this on purpose, especially since the pitcure taken was hardly flattering.

In the end, I dont care because I expected as much. For all the crap that Palin got for what TINA FEY said in a skit about seeing Russia from her house, Obama (a much more traveled politician) has yet to get anything right on protocol. The Saudi bow, this, and the whole handshake thing in Russia. Yes his people failed him in each instance, but part of his platform was that he was a man of the world. Whatever, in all likelihood he is gone in 2012 because he has looked anything but presidential so far and his approval ratings are starting to look like Bush post 2004.

11-17-2009, 03:43 PM	#19
Lafclaria Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 417 Senior Member	The Saudi thing was a protocol guy who needed to get fired. Sure, Obama fucked up, but someone failed him to boot. This, on the other hand, is an example of the reactionary right laughably grasping at straws. I would even go so far as to say that I suspect Obama may have done this to bait the crazies out of the woodwork to marginalize themselves. Everyone knows that bowing is what you do in Japan. Except for what he did was not a bow. It was some theatrical bow plus handshake hybrid. Like I said, I dont think it was disrespectful, but I know for a fact that if this was Bush, Sigecaps and others would have been the first people to jump into it. Obama is way too full of himself to do this on purpose, especially since the pitcure taken was hardly flattering. In the end, I dont care because I expected as much. For all the crap that Palin got for what TINA FEY said in a skit about seeing Russia from her house, Obama (a much more traveled politician) has yet to get anything right on protocol. The Saudi bow, this, and the whole handshake thing in Russia. Yes his people failed him in each instance, but part of his platform was that he was a man of the world. Whatever, in all likelihood he is gone in 2012 because he has looked anything but presidential so far and his approval ratings are starting to look like Bush post 2004.
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