OK, while Newsweek frets over Sarah Palin’s credentials to be President, Powerline reports the following stellar performance by Bambi in Tokyo today:

(Obama answering a question about the propriety of nuking Hiroshima & Nagasaki):

… Now, obviously Japan has unique perspective on the issue of nuclear weapons as a consequence of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that I’m sure helps to motivate the Prime Minister’s deep interest in this issue. I certainly would be honored, it would be meaningful for me to visit those two cities in the future. I don’t have immediate travel plans, but it’s something that would be meaningful to me.

You had one more question, and I’m not sure I remember it. Was it North Korea?

Q Whether or not you believe that the U.S. dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — it was right?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: No, there were three sets of questions, right? You asked about North Korea?

So there you have it, Obama can’t bring himself to say the bombings were justified. This, in a country that to this day can’t apologize for the Rape of Nanking, or the rape of hundreds of thousands of South Korean women except in the most vague terms. What a piece of trash he is.

When I lived in Japan as a kid (around 10-11) I bowed to adults when told that I should, given the social situation.

And I purposely bowed really deep, like 90 degrees. And it was appropriate.

Because that’s what children do.

What are you talking about lib? Are you just rendered speechless by seeing this clueless twerp bow to yet another foreign king?

Thomas Jefferson’s bones are trying to claw out of his tomb to get at this guy.

Un-be-lievable…Was he not taught in grade-school social- studies the significance of the depth of a bow in Japan?

Even more troubling: if President Obama knows the significance of his gesture and he willingly sacrificed centuries American prestige and exceptionalism -earned with the blood of our military and sweat off our brows- with an obsequious gesture.

If you think this is bad, just wait until Obama gives a “Lewinski” to the mullahs of Iran.

Posted by mightysamurai
2009-11-15 09:51:18

Of course he has people surrounding him to point out protocol. But the people he surrounded himself with hate America and are doing all they can to destroy our country. So yes, they are doing the job he appointed them to do.

I’m pointing out that General MacArthur, who would make Sarah Palin look like a hippie, allowed Japan to keep its monarchy.
Why?

Why not? There’s nothing innately evil about a monarchy, and it was their country, not his.

You’ve tried to defend stuff that conservatives disagreed with before, be honest with yourself, if not us. You aren’t trying to defend President Obama because what he did was stupid, ignorant, and humiliating.

Article I, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.”

If both Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt, just to name two presidents, thought it beyond belief to accept or give obeisance, then President Obama should be able to understand the same. Somebody on his staff should brush up on thier history classes. It is shameful, and therefore shows shame on our entire country by association. End of story.

I think you guys should get over yourselves. It’s not really that big of a deal. He is not assuming any kind of subservient role. He is just paying respect to the Japanese Emperor.
Posted by D-Vega
2009-11-16 09:58:49

The point, D-Vega, is his rank amateurism (anyone could have told him he needn’t bow down to the Emperor’s freaking crotch level – if he meant a bow as an Oriental greeting, a slight nod of the head like Nixon once did before the Emperor would have sufficed) and complete seeming unawareness of his own rank as the Leader of the Free World. I know he doesn’t like to think of the American President that way, but hey – that’s just the way it is.

I’m forever bemused by how obsequious this guy comes across with potentates, but how savagely ruthless he is with his domestic political opposition. Rahm “The Knife” Emanuel is his Chief of Staff, he’s got goons out beating up people at town halls, he’s got people calling ordinary Americans at Tea Parties fascists. But to the outside world, he practically rolls over on his back, begging for a tummy rub.