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Oh puh-lease! Showing gestures of goodwill and respect for their customs are not the same as worshipping, bowing. Leaders do not bow to one another for crying out loud.
Hmmmm.... I see someone has a major-league, industrial-strength DOUBLE STANDARD!!
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Hmmmm.... I see someone has a major-league, industrial-strength DOUBLE STANDARD!!
ROFLMAO!!!
How is it a double standard? Kissing the cheek and holding hands are to them what shaking hands is to us. They are customary greetings. Bowing, on the other hand, is showing you're a lowly, worshipping servant. What about that is so hard to comprehend?
The 6 people who have said yes up to now are about as well informed about diplomatic protocol as it seems Obama was that day. Heads of state do not bend over, bow, genuflect or do other subservient moves to other heads of state.
There is a story about Jackie Kennedy wanting to know if she should curtsy to Queen Elizabeth. She was told that the Queen wouldn't like that because heads of state and their spouses just don't act like that with other heads of state. She did the proper thing but soon after JFK's funeral she curtsied to the Queen and when asked why she did so she replied that she was no longer the wife of the head of state. Technically she was right and that lady would never have done anything she was not proper protocol.
Lets just admit that Obama screwed up and that there were a lot of people there who were probably embarrassed for him.
Let me offer you a set of several different angles of him bowing to the king and you can draw your own conclusions. I think he bowed and he will admit it as soon as Rahm Emanuel allows him to do so.
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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The 6 people who have said yes up to now are about as well informed about diplomatic protocol as it seems Obama was that day. Heads of state do not bend over, bow, genuflect or do other subservient moves to other heads of state.
There is a story about Jackie Kennedy wanting to know if she should curtsy to Queen Elizabeth. She was told that the Queen wouldn't like that because heads of state and their spouses just don't act like that with other heads of state. She did the proper thing but soon after JFK's funeral she curtsied to the Queen and when asked why she did so she replied that she was no longer the wife of the head of state. Technically she was right and that lady would never have done anything she was not proper protocol.
Lets just admit that Obama screwed up and that there were a lot of people there who were probably embarrassed for him.
Let me offer you a set of several different angles of him bowing to the king and you can draw your own conclusions. I think he bowed and he will admit it as soon as Rahm Emanuel allows him to do so.
I vote no but mind you I know nothing about proper protocol while visiting with the king of Saudi Arabia.
What I find disturbing is a staff member of the President telling all of America, with a straight face mind you, that was not a bow. Seems like "more of the same" to me. I hope whoever made the denial is called out onto the carpet by the President. Now that would be a nice change of pace.
The more I follow politics the less hopeful I am. I am starting to believe there is no difference between R and D. Behind the huge curtain at the end of the yellow brick road is just big government in all of its republican and democratic glory, laughing and partying at the expense of all hard working Americans.
Shelley
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