GOP goes crazy over Obama's bow to Saudi King -- ENOUGH OF THIS!

[JudyInTheHeartland]

Run time: 03:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60U-hl35Gw   Posted on YouTube: April 01, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 03, 2009 By DU Member: JudyInTheHeartland Views on DU: 8083

 
So Michelle Malkin and others are trying to make hay about Obama bowing before the Saudi King (0:54 in the video above).
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/02/video-obamas-deep-bow-to-the-saudi-king/

Seriously, can we move beyond this bullshit protocol nitpicking and start talking about some serious issues here? I don't care if Michelle gooses Queen Elizabeth or if Obama gives an FBI t-shirt and some postcards to the next foreign leader. The only reason the Republican media is talking about ANY of this is because they can't argue with our sides' superior/correct positions on the major issues of the day. There is nothing wrong with being kind or deferential to the obviously older King of Saudi Arabia. It's just being nice, and it's time for conservatives to lighten up and start debating real issues rather than this manufactured protocol crap.

[tekisui]

1. This is a whole lot of nothing.

This is the iPod, the hug, the special Olympics. Whole lot of NOTHING.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Them NOOPers sure looked like shit today.....

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Aw, they're so cute ...........

Little impotent anklebiters, with nothing of substance to gnaw on, they're just down there in their own waste, trying to sink their decaying little fangs into the ankles of someone who doesn't even notice that they're there.

Nor does he care.

They're trash, so they're behaving like trash.

Our PRESIDENT AND MRS. OBAMA are driving them insane.

I love it.

Pass the popcorn...................

[Seen the light]

4. You have no problem with the POTUS *bowing* to a Saudi king?

One as wretched on human rights as Abdullah? That's just being "deferential"?

Hmmmm....

[Kali]

6. who was it that geedubya was kissing and walking around with holding hands?

:shrug:

[Seen the light]

13. Your point?

Fuck Bush and everything he did. Using something he did to justify what Obama did isn't exactly the best debate tactic though.

[NBachers]

31. He used some manners. So the Fuck What?

I work in a world-population environment. I bow to people every day. People bow to me. Maybe they're wife-beaters or Pol Pot supporters. Maybe they've got decaying corpses hanging in their basement and they roll around naked in the liquefied tissue dripping off. So the fuck what? It's manners and respect that's appropriate to the occasion. Yay Obama!

[swt_nd_smpl]

59. I think his pointing out double standars with the party of NO

and regardless whether its a bow or not, who cares we have climate changes to worry about and universal health care coverage.

[indimuse]

38. Don't you remember...?

*Shiny* Happy people holdin haaannddss.... hehe...( From Michael Moores movie: Fahrenheit 911)..




;)

[JudyInTheHeartland]

10. Nope

It's nice to have a President without a superiority complex.

[indimuse]

39. "superiority complex"???

Oh, pleeeeze.:crazy:

[PearliePoo2]

12. If he was indeed "bowing" to a Saudi......

Yeah, I have a problem with that.
The POTUS should not bow to anyone.
The majority of the terrorists on board the airplanes on 9/11 were Saudis.

[walkaway]

15. and all of the terrorists from the Kansas city bombing were Americans

....just saying

[Zywiec]

58. What bombing in Kansas City?

Did I miss something where Americans bombed Kansas City?

:shrug:

[RBInMaine]

37. STUPID comment. He was being polite to a foreign king. That is it and all. THIS IS NUMB SHIT !!

[roody]

44. So isn't a trial the appropriate consequence for a crime????

[cliffordu]

14. This is worlwide politics, not your personal shopping list of friends and family

on your cellphone plan.

The President could have had the Secret Service shoot the fucker, but that would have raised gas prices.

[MrModerate]

18. Context is everthing. I wouldn't characterize it as "deferential" . . .

I'd characterize it as "polite." And no, I have no problem with it.

I have problems with any number of aspects of Saudi society and governance that don't fit my notions of right and wrong, but these are totally unaffected by formal courtesies exchanged on camera in world summits.

[JudyInTheHeartland]

19. How about "humble"? So refreshing to see America learning to respect the rest of the world...

I think it sends an incredibly positive message to the Arab world. Here is an AMERICAN President giving the ultimate respect to one of their elder statesmen. It's a small thing, yes, but the more I think about this the more I think that we can really make a difference during the next 8 years.

[Mojorabbit]

24. It is the first time I have ever seen it done

It does not sit well with me. In Japan everyone bows so that is different from one leader bowing to another unless it is the Saudi common greeting to bow. I have no idea if that is so or not. The hand holding is cultural and I don't have a problem with that nor the kissing.

[LuckyTheDog]

52. If it was a bow...

...an not just an attempt to look a shorter man in the face, then it was a gaffe. But I am not sure it was a "bow."

[ArmeniansForObama]

30. It's called Real Politik...

Next week he will be visiting our alley Turkey which to this day denies its genocide.

[RBInMaine]

35. Oh quit your BULLSHIT ! The man was just being polite to the guy. Enough of this NONSENSE !

[Political Heretic]

55. Let's say it this way: I don't have the problem that the GOP has, and their problem is stupid

[rwheeler31]

5. The Gop likes wadded up panties. The get goofy about

every little thing.

[notadmblnd]

7. What? did they expect Obama to make out with him like bush did?

[AlbertCat]

9. That's what I was gonna say. Did they expect him to kiss the King's ass instead of bow?

[cliffordu]

16. How did you get my MRI????

[Roadcyclist]

8. Sometimes I wonder if MM has ever gotten laid

[walkaway]

11. It's annoying but kind of fun to see them all freaked out.

For eight year they had their moronic leader, W, stinking up the entire world with his stupidity. Every time one of them tries to get any attention they make national laughing stocks out of themselves.

Every day that passes the Obamas make every republikan look smaller, sadder, duller and more inept.

Obama looked great and totally rocked the summit. As usual the pukes are left shaking their tiny fists.

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[The Wizard]

42. And just wait for the pictures

to be released. Whoooo I can hear the heads hitting the walls already. Actually, Bush was sucking Don King's dick in the soon to be released photos.

[Reform]

20. Michelle Malkin is a spawn of satan

The woman is a snake

[cliffordu]

22. That hog should be tried for treason.

[Politicalboi]

21. At least he wasn't holding hands

Like Bush.

[vaberella]

23. Isn't that like bowing in front of the Japanese President/Prime Minister?!

I don't get it.

[burning rain]

28. They need something to get poutraged over.

^

[donheld]

25. W had his lips tightly rapped around the Saudi King's ...

And these fools have the nerve to say one thing about Obama bowing to him?

[Wizard777]

26. Democrats screamed bloody murder over Reagan bowing to the Queen of England.

So I will reiterate OUR gripe about that. For a head of state to bow to another is a sign of surrender of power. A Head of state has no official duty to bow to another. Not even in the head of states homeland. It was indeed improper for Obama to bow to him. Some things in this world never change.

However Barack and Michelle did very well with their visit to Queen Elizabeth. It was easy to tell that her Majesty was quite impressed with them. Her Majesty chose to give them more of a family reception than a state reception. This had even some of the most avid royal watchers confused on protocol. But I assure you there were no breaches of protocol contrary to their claims. I think her Majesties reasoning behind this was to put aside some of the Bush/Blair strained relations to renew and reaffirm the relationship with cousins across the pond so to speak.

[RBInMaine]

36. OH GET REAL ! You are making a STUPID STINK about NOTHING ! NOTHING !!

[Wizard777]

47. No I'm just not a hypocrit. If it was wrong for Reagan. It's also wrong for Obama.

Wrong is wrong regardless of which party is doing it. It's really that simple.

[stlsaxman]

40. What the fuck are you doing here?!?!?

"26. Democrats screamed bloody murder over Reagan bowing to the Queen of England.

So I will reiterate OUR gripe about that."


OUR gripe??? Please explain.

[Wizard777]

48. Reminding you of the past. Reagan went to the Queens Jubilee and bowed to her.

There was an outrage over that from the democrats. That outrage was further compounded upon their return. Nancy Reagan wanted to have Crowns made for the President and First Lady. George Washington nearly jumped up out of his grave and went on a dead run for her. Because if America is to have a royal family. Then that Royal family is George Washington's. He was offered the position as King of America and declined it to become our President.

[Wabbajack_]

50. "Nancy Reagan wanted to have Crowns made for the President and First Lady."

Wow. Do you have a source?

[Wizard777]

51. It was all over broadcast media and the papers, But I can't locate anything on it online now.

Most archives don't go back that far without pay for retrieval. I know my local papers and many others do that. I'm not paying for the story. Talk to some of your elders. They will probably remember it.

[stlsaxman]

54. Wrong- the outrage came when Reagan was made an honorary Knight...

June 14 1989- Receives honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

I remember that- i was alive, kickin' and pissed off too.

It was Nancy who refused to bow to The Queen.

No wonder you couldn't find any links...

[Historic NY]

27. well he didn't kiss him, did he.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

29. Revere the Queen, insult the king - WHICH IS IT?

they could at least be consistent in their nitpicking over non-issue ettiquette stuff.

[JJ]

32. They had no problem with Bush and Cheney licking his boots and kissing his ass

[tomm2thumbs]

33. So was the guy between the two sheiks the king? Because he bowed to that guy, not those we see

And so if he bows, customarily, to a Japanese man, this is offensive? LOL - These pooooor GOP folks are slowly sinking into their own pit of quicksand and their struggling is only making them go under faster. Keep it up! It's only going to keep that last 25% of their supporters under their wing, not anyone new.

Gingrich is going to build a new 3rd Party and you are going to see these Right Wing nuts split the baby so that no one has the votes to overtake the Democrats! YEAH!!!!!!!!!! I love their stupidity

Of course Bush simply holds the King's hand.... (see vid).. like a school girl holding the hands of a would-be knight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOhzl9QJmU

[RBInMaine]

34. This is why you can't "work" with right wingers. Those FACSISTS will never work with us. All they

know how to do is attack and tear down. SCREW THEM ! It is a FIGHT ! You FIGHT the right wing, and you bloody their f-ing noses and DEFEAT them ! You don't try to "work" with them, because you can't ! Hard to "work" with ultra right wing FACSISTS !

[terrytea]

56. It's liberalism

It is liberalism we have too worry about today. Accumulating power to the state has been the aim of liberalism over the past 50 years. It is accelerating under Obama because he truly believes that increased state control of society is good. Freedom and democracy are subservient to the good of the state. The state decides what is good instead of the individual. There will be federal controls exerted over web content like you find on this website. You may soon find that is no longer any opposition to your goal of increasing state control over the individual. That will be a clear sign that you have won - when the opposition is eliminated. Everyone will write the same content, subject to state approval. We will all be in harmony without any differences of opinion. A perfect state. That is the goal, isn't it?

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

57. This one smells a little funny. (nm)

nm

[Highway61]

41. They have NOTHING to work with.

His approval number's speak for themselves. The American people see right through their feeble attempts.

[roody]

43. They want him to kiss him like boy king did.

[florida08]

45. you can expect Malkin

and the rest of the goppers to rail on this. Their bullshit plans for America are based on anything they can spin on the president in a negative light. I didn't notice anyone else bowing but Obama is a humble man and I'm sure he felt at ease with respect to Abdullah, although a nod and a handshake would have sufficed as was with Elizabeth. Best to wait to see what his explanation is as I'm sure he'll be asked about it.

[ellenfl]

46. it did not look like a bow to me. you don't bow while you're in mid- stride.

he either tripped or was reaching for something. did he bow to the queen or to any other heads of state? it looked like he was picking something up from one of the chairs to me.

ellen fl

[Wabbajack_]

49. "they can't argue with our sides' superior/correct positions on the major issues of the day."

But they do anyway.

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