WTF? # LA Times Best 'Comments Blog' Comment: Obama As Shoeshine Boy?

[Hissyspit]

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Top 10 reader comments about President Obama's bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito

November 14, 2009 | 2:46 pm

A post on our Top of the Ticket blog today about President Obama’s greeting of Japan’s Emperor Akihito has already generated over 1,000 comments from readers.

This weekend, the president has done a lot of bowing to show respect on his first Asia tour as president. The photo above was taken after the president gave a speech in Tokyo's Suntory Hall. However, the emperor's bow was a little different. Times staffer Andrew Malcolm, who wrote the post, allowed the photo (and the video) of Obama’s gesture to speak for itself -- see it here.

We mostly enjoyed what readers had to say about the president’s greeting -- a mixture of outrage and patriotism, snarky one-liners and more serious diatribes.

Here are the top 10 best comments so far (leave your own below):

1. Mitch wrote: Obama to Emperor of Japan: "May I shine your shoes, Sir?"
2. Plain Jane wrote: Obama WASN'T bowing - He SAW a Japanese Yen on the floor and went to pick it up because it might be Worth More Than Our Dollar!

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What are your comments on the president’s bow to Japan’s emperor? Tell us below.

-- Kelsey Ramos

Obama as shoeshine boy? REALLY? A racist comment is considered best? Ugly and stupid.

[EFerrari]

1. They "mostly enjoy" their racism and sexism over at the LATs, apparently.

Embarrassing.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Shoe shine. ha. ha.

Not funny. But not surprising either.

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[JDPriestly]

3. The LA Times is on about the same level as Fox News these days.

It was, at one time, a fairly liberal paper. It is obscenely conservative now.