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Yeah Obama should just say fuck-you to all other cultures and traditions. Worked so well for the last guy
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Originally posted by vandeleurE- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first place
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Check this out...
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Hmmm...
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Cultures and traditions!Originally posted by vandeleurE- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first placeComment
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Bownig down to an Emperior is not necessary, and BTW, did the Emperior bow to Obama ??
No, he did not!Comment
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Seven Years in Tibet was a great movieComment
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And hey, maybe Obama bowing to the Emperor is looked at as being sarcastic...Comment
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It's like Obama is pretending to suck any dick no matter what it might be infected with...Comment
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You get all that from one bow, ELVIS?Originally posted by vandeleurE- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first placeComment
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No, just speculating...Comment
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Cool!Originally posted by vandeleurE- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first placeComment
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Are we all wrong? Tapper says so.
On President Obama's Bow to the Japanese Emperor, An Academic Friend Writes That Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong
November 15, 2009 2:53 PM
An old friend -- an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama -- sends me the following note, relating to photographs of President Obama bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan.
"This picture shows two things," my friend writes.
"1) The 'right' is wrong about Obama's bow.
"2) The 'left' is wrong about Obama's bow.
"His bow is neither (1) unprecedented nor (2) a sign of cultural understanding.
"At their 1971 meeting in Alaska, the first visit of a Japanese Emperor to America, President Nixon bowed and referred to Emperor Hirohito and his wife repeatedly as 'Your Imperial Majesties.'"
(See that picture HERE.)
"Yet, (and?) Nixon gets the bow right. Slight arch from the waist hands at his side.
"Obama's handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush's back-rub of Merkel.
"Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.
"The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms....The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.
"BTW, Obama's bow at Suntory Hall was much better. Correct angle, slight bow. His hands were wrong but the physical tone was correct and appropriate.
"But if Obama can get the dollar to stop bowing to the Yen I take it all back."Comment
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[QUOTE=ELVIS;1400404]Check this out...
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Hmmm...
This current president certainly lacks a Command Presence. Lets hope he never has to step into the octagon with Vlad Putin, he would get tapped pretty quick.
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Oh my Dad ye people readeth far too much into these things.
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