What is it with this man and bowing?
Bookworm on Feb 01 2010 at 8:48 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
We were first entertained by the spectacle of the different ways in which Barack Obama met Queen Elizabeth, a very elderly lady who comes from a thousand year old lineage and is the head of a democracy, versus his meeting with the King of Saudi Arabia, who comes from a decades old tribe and is the head of a totalitarian theocracy:
Then we got Obama’s deep, deep bow to the sweetly innocuous Emperor of Japan:
Obama has now taken his bows to new highs, or new lows. You’ll never guess before whom he was caught bowing this time.
I can see a market for a new dashboard device. In the old days, you used to have the nodding dog or the hula dancer. Here’s a good reminder of that cute little hula dancer:
Someone needs to invent a bowing Obama doll to bounce away on every car’s dashboard, just so we can be reminded daily how low the presidency is going under his less than tender ministrations.
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It’s not just that he bows, it is the way he bows. In Asia, a bow of respect never breaks eye contact with the subject of the bow. By contrast, a bow with eyes to the ground is a bow of submission. Idiot!
I’d look to his childhood. This seems to be an ingrained habit – like (in the old days) of men taking off their hats as a token of respect. If they were raised “properly”, it was something they didn’t think about – it was just something they just did. We know he was raised in a muslim culture. Bowing is a muslim act of respect. I’m guessing that’s where it comes from.
I’ve noticed he only bows to Asians (Arabs are Southwest Asians) or people who appear to be Asian (the mayor of Tampa).
Racist!!!!!
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I’m a resident of Tampa and I’ve met Pam Iorio. She looks about as Asian as Meryl Streep. I have no idea why the Empty Suit would bow so obsequiously to the Mayor of Tampa. It’s baffling.
He’s a like one of those perpetual motion gadgets of the 50′s and 60′s. The little do-hickey thing that you placed on the edge of your glass and it kept bobbing towards the liquid.
What are you Mr Obama — the POTUS or the butler. Enuff with the bowing, already
But if I may get serious, it doesn’t have anything to do with Muslim culture. Muslims are only supposed to bow down before Allah. My take on all this is that it is college sophomoric PC theatrics. He bowed down before the Emperor as a token of PC penance for Hiroshima — that’s what I think. And this bowing to another Asian is yet more juvenile apologizing for the actions of America and the white race.
What do you think, Madaam Bookworm
Lennie,
That’s as good an explanation as any. I think that years of psychological analysis still wouldn’t plumb the depths of Obama’s very confused, angry psyche.
No bows to white imperialists! To me, he actually looked like he disliked the British royals and wanted to make it clear he was showing them perfunctory respect” because he HAD to, not because he wanted to.
Well thank you, my lovely Bookworm. It can’t be chalked up to, say, traditional Asian upbringing. Asian men don’t bow to women. And SUEK, would a Muslim man bow to a woman? This has got tobe his inner out of control college freshman at work.
BTW Bookworm, I’ve read many of your articles over at American Thinker and I bow to no one in my admiration of your work (lol)
Maybe Obama just thinks he’s being gracious…
But then why didn’t he bow to Queen Elizabeth? She got from him, what was it, the friendly little pat on the shoulder; the one you give your neighbor who drinks too much and parties (with the throbbing bass from his huge speakers reverberating through your bedroom wall…). No bow for the Queen! Perhaps she’s not “foreign” enough. You know – she’s one of those evil European and American whites who exploit the rest of the world that Obama wants to bow to.
Were I the President, I’d be consulting with my Protocol Expert prior to each dignitary meeting. ”OK, what’s the best way to show respect here?” There’d be no mistakes, and there’d be no controversy.
Book,
Maybe there IS a reason — Thanking her for her official proclamations…
Tampa mayor, Pam Iorio, proclaimed Nov. 15th “CAIR Day”
http://www.zimbio.com/Mayor+Pam+Iorio/articles/61/Tampa+mayor+Pam+Iorio+proclaimed+Nov+15th
Oh. Wow.
>>And SUEK, would a Muslim man bow to a woman? >>
Good point.
Hmm…would that be the very same CAIR, who has failed to file income taxes for 2007, 2008 as a 501 c and in the very same state as sami al arian – simply shocking (not).
Book sorry if this comment appears twice — the first never appeared.
That would be this very same CAIR, the “unindicted co-conspirator” in Hamas funding case – Jihad Watch
Just for fun:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/02/it-holds-55-gallons-of-teh-stinky.html