It ticks me off to no end to see an American President bow to a Japanese Emperor!!!!

[joeybee12]

[virgogal]

1. I think that is just a tall man bending over to greet a short, old man.

This entire bowing criticism thing has gotten totally out of hand IMHO.

[gratuitous]

2. Sure it's gotten out of hand

And certain segments in our society would much rather yammer on and on about that than deal with some very real problems affecting significant portions of the country. But it's not because the Republicans don't have any ideas or solutions, so stop saying that.

[joeybee12]

4. Repukes have lots of ideas...I have listed these below....

[GMA]

10. Is this empty head on your part, or do

you really not know any Republican ideas? It's good to get out a bit and know things, even if you don't agree with them. :)

[JoeyT]

12. They have lots of ideas, it's true.

The problem is their ideas are all counterproductive and stupid.

[GMA]

16. Well, there you go!

No empty-headers on du, right?

[joeybee12]

3. It's a bow...others have bowed, is my point...

..it's manufactured outrage by the right...yet again.

[arthritisR_US]

6. exactly! He did the right thing, sane people think Obama merits respect for

the proper respect he gave the emperor.

[joeybee12]

8. And if he didn't bow, the right would be all over him for not paying

proper respect to one of our strongest allies...they just want to bitch about something.

[arthritisR_US]

19. precisely, they major in petty! n/t

[lillypaddle]

5. Yes, but it wasn't a DEEP bow

silly.

[arthritisR_US]

7. yes and that emperor was taller than the present and the president was

shorter than Obama.

[lillypaddle]

30. I shoulda used the sarcasm tag

[arthritisR_US]

35. Naw, I should have been less daft and seen the jest. n/t

[lillypaddle]

36. hard to tell sometimes

:)

[arthritisR_US]

37. thanks :-) n/t

[pnwmom]

9. To me, it looks like he's leaning in to hear him better. Notice he's tilted sideways. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

11. That's just because Nixon was crooked.

It took a two man team of White House valets to screw on his pants every morning.

[Statistical]

15. +1 lol. n/t

[pnwmom]

20. LOL. n't

[TicketyBoo]

34. Nixon? Crooked?

He famously denied it. "I am not a crook."

Ri-i-i-ght.

[jimshoes]

13. I guess if you're a right winger, you probably think

Obama should show his respect by pissing on the Emperor's shoe or something along those lines. Fucking idiots.

[Fuzz]

14. He should have punched him!

[L0oniX]

17. Bowing over there is the same as hand shaking here ...big deal ...pffft.

[pnwmom]

21. No, it isn't. Shaking hands is mutual. The Emperor doesn't bow to anyone,

so it's not mutual.

[L0oniX]

25. Yes it is ...and I don't mean for the Emperor ...I mean for most people.

Where did you see me say anything specifically about the fucking emperor?.

[pnwmom]

26. Fine. But the OP is specifically about bowing to the Emperor. So your post

is irrelevant to the discussion then.

[L0oniX]

27. If it's irrelevant why are you responding to it? Knee jerk much?

[pnwmom]

28. Because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

That is, I was assuming you were discussing the OP.

[dugaresa]

18. They should throw up on them!

[cbdo2007]

22. I promise there are pics out there of GW Bush and Cheney bowing.

How do we find those? I wouldn't know where to start looking...

[sakabatou]

24. I know there's several of Bush kissing Abudullah

or however his name is spelled.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

29. There are several of every President doing it including President Obama.

[Stevenmarc]

23. Not that impressive, now if he'd have done a St. James bow.

[yodoobo]

31. Hmmm. Not sure that Nixon is the example I would use

The bow is no big deal, but lets find a better example.

[Bonn1997]

32. There the Emperor bowed back. I think the outrage should be that that didn't happen this time.

[DU GrovelBot]

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