Another overseas trip for President Obama, another bow of submission
November 14th, 2009
President Barack Obama bows before Japanese Emperor Akihito. Another stunning humiliation for the United States. Click for larger image.
President Barack Obama is on an overseas trip that will take him to a number of Pacific nations including Japan, China and Singapore. Of course the foreign policy gaffes of this administration have been well documented. The most embarassing and humiliating event happened back in April when President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah.
Apparently there is no end to our president showing his subservience to foreign leaders. Now we have the President of the United States bowing to Japan’s Emperor Akihito. And, not only just bowing, he does so by making it extremely low – a well known sign of deference.
Updated 11/15/09 – Now with video! Check it out at the bottom of the story. Also, the link at the very bottom takes you to the original source for the story (LA Times). It is interesting to note this quote in that story, “the video shows no reciprocal bow by the emperor, who traditionally bows to no one.” Apparently American presidents do now though.
It would appear that this trip by the president is yet another one in which we must suffer the humiliation of his ongoing ‘apology tour’ whereby he makes his own nation out to be the enemy.
This nation does not bow to any other – never has, never will. Bowing to foreign leaders is an embarrassment to our nation and the sacrifices of those who fought for its very freedom. We most certainly do not bow to nations that spawned the terrorists of September 11th like Saudia Arabia or those nations like Japan that were directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in World War II.
President Obama would do well to look at the history of the 1908 Olympics that were held in London. Countries were asked to dip their flag in deference to King Edward VII. The American flag bearer proudly refused to do so and Team Captain Martin Sheridan is famously quoted as saying “this flag dips to no earthly king.”
Our flag doesn’t dip to any other nation and neither should our president.
Is there no end to the humiliation this president causes us? He should be ashamed!
“Embarrassing and humiliating” does not begin to describe this. As a veteran I am offended, personally, by the President of the United States bowing to anyone.
I personally think the president may have been admiring those stylish shoes the emperor was wearing.
I saw this in the Washington Post today:
“Now we know why Mr. Obama stunned everyone with an earlier similar bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, only the bow to the Japanese emperor was far more flamboyant, a sign of a really deep sense of inferiority. He was only practicing his bow in Riyadh. Sometimes rituals are learned with difficulty. It took Bill Clinton months to learn how to return a military salute worthy of a commander in chief; like any draft dodger, he kept poking a thumb in his eye until he finally got it. Mr. Obama, on the other hand, seems right at home now giving a wow of a bow. This is not the way an American president impresses evildoers that he’s strong, tough and decisive, that America is not to be trifled with.
“Some of the president’s critics are giving him a hard time, and it’s true that this president seems never to have studied much American history. Not bowing to foreign potentates was what 1776 was all about. His predecessors learned with no difficulty that the essence of America is that all men stand equal and are entitled to look even a king, maybe particularly a king, straight in the eye. Can anyone imagine George Washington, John Adams or Thomas Jefferson making a similar gesture of servile submission? Or Harry Truman? Or FDR, who famously served the lowly hot dog, with ballpark mustard, to the king and queen of England? John F. Kennedy, on the eve of a trip to London, sharply warned Jackie not to curtsy to the queen. ”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/17/pruden-obama-bows-the-nation-cringes/
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