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Bow-rage
Posted (Van Santos) in Barack Obama on November-16-2009
Actually – there is NO protocol for a president bowing. Here is why: One of the pillars the United States was founded on was the rejection of a caste system (hereditary social classes and subclasses)   No Americans in any station are required to bow to royalty as bowing signifies submission to the person receiving the bow.  Bowing is not a sign of mutual respect.  As President Obama represents the United States, as a result, when the president bows to a foreign official he bows for all Americans.
You have politicians and pundits trying to make this a political thing, it is not.  This is a man that just ignored 230 plus years of principle. Let us look past that for a second, let us look at the ‘gesture’ from the Japanese perspective.  What very well may have been intended as a sign of respect could be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
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
Some one really needs to alert the President that the message he is sending is, quite possible, not the message he is intending. esizers

The administration attempted to get around President Obama’s first “non bow” with the King of Saudi Arabia by saying he was going to shake the King’s hand.  It was obvious to anyone with an IQ that doesn’t fall into the mentally handicapped range that the President did, indeed, bow.  (Here is a reminder for you).

While meeting the Emperor of Japan this past weekend President Obama, once again, took a bow.  There is no getting around it, no “he was going to shake his hand” spin here. The President bowed. The administration came out saying the President was simply following protocol when, in fact, he was not.

Actually – there is NO protocol for a president bowing. Here is why: One of the pillars the United States was founded on was the rejection of a caste system (hereditary social classes and subclasses)   No Americans in any station are required to bow to royalty as bowing signifies submission to the person receiving the bow.  Bowing is not a sign of mutual respect.  As President Obama represents the United States, as a result, when the president bows to a foreign official he bows for all Americans.

You have politicians and pundits trying to make this a political thing, it is not.  This is a man that just ignored 230 plus years of principle. I would be very curious to know how any World War Two Bataan Death March survivors (if there are any alive today) feel about this.  Let us look past that for a second, let us look at the ‘gesture’ from the Japanese perspective.  What very well may have been intended as a sign of respect could be interpreted as a sign of weakness.

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

Some one really needs to alert the President that the message he is sending is, quite possible, not the message he is intending.
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