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Post by bizarro on Nov 16, 2009 19:18:12 GMT -5
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Post by will on Nov 16, 2009 20:15:09 GMT -5
It's a bunch of "conservative" blowhards who are up in arms. So what. They would only be satisfied if Obama waved his dick at the emperor and then shot him.
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Post by trash on Nov 16, 2009 20:18:54 GMT -5
Obviously it was a choice to bow to the emperor. And past Presidents even Clinton didn't give a complete bow. This is one thing I do like about Obama. How he can be diplomatic when meeting foreign dignitaries.
Hey better than kissing King Abdullah on the lips or giving the Chancellor of Germany an impromptu back rug right?
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Post by flylooper on Nov 17, 2009 10:27:56 GMT -5
William Kristol is such a freaking pissant. I'd like to bash for fucker upside the head. How does an asshole like him, who owns a magazine with exactly 32 subscribers outside the beltway, get quoted so damned often? He's the same guy that gets a woody every time you say "Palin!"
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Post by rhetorik on Nov 17, 2009 11:01:44 GMT -5
No wonder the US has such a poor international image, if this (the writer of that article's) reaction to bowing to another leader is indicative of the population's mentality.
Can these people not realize that a) showing respect to another does not necessarily weaken your own position, or that b) this desplay of respect to foreign powers may have longer-term positive ramifications on a social scale?
Oh, and I always laugh when Cheny is used as an example on how to do things... the ogre.
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Post by jimschmidt on Nov 17, 2009 12:18:48 GMT -5
We're in a political battle between smart and stupid.
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Post by jeromeoneil on Nov 17, 2009 12:57:24 GMT -5
It's not hot gay homosex when Republicans do it...   |
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Post by kitkat on Nov 18, 2009 12:22:17 GMT -5
Eh, it is a new world. The only clips of presidents I saw that were "bowing" (in lib cable response) was some head bobbing by Nixon and Eisenhower to DeGaulle (which I think was more as in "thanks for the french resistance, chuck! We REALLY appreciated it!" than anything else.) Anyway, Obama's protocol droids still screwed the pooch--no handshakes combined with bowing--prolly why the emperor was so amused. Ah you cwazy awmericans!! ;D
Really, Obama is just a reflection of reality--the US is no longer the "big kahuna" in the world anymore. We're just the fattest debtor state with a gigantic military only usable in third world dirt and not of use anywhere else, power-projection-wise. Repubs hate that reality, wanna deny it, attack any evidence of its reality, but there it is anyway.
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Post by keystonejenks on Nov 18, 2009 15:44:02 GMT -5
Just the hate of the week. Other Presidents have done it, including Bush's father.
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