Did he or didn't he? http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2009/04/09/moos.bow.or.no.bow.cnn Thoughts? Show of respect, or a political snafu?
of course he bowed. It's plain as day to see. The guy is inexperienced - he didn't know any better. We should expect a lot of this garbage. It made our country look subservient. Awful.
Well, if he was greeting Asian leaders, the protocol would be a bow to each other of the same degree. This is a little different.
What is wrong with that? It is a sign of respect...Lincoln would have bowed. Watch John Adams for perspective. DD
yeah, but that was before we were the most super duper awesome billy badasses on the freakin block known as earth. seriously, this is the prespcetive the wingers are coming from
I know right? As if Bowing makes us less of a super duper awesome billy badbones? It just shows a measure of respect....SHEESH ! DD
Bowing? I tell you what he should have done...he should have brought himself a gun and told that other fella to change his name so the rest of us could pronounce it.
Or humble. You know we're still richer, freer and better armed than any other country on the planet, right? I bet everyone in that clip knows, too.
As I pointed out in another thread, no one had anything to say when the last president actually had to go over there and plea them to turn up the Texas Gold production. Bush last year One hour after his plea for more Saudi oil was publicly rejected by the kingdom's oil minister, President Bush made a private visit to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to again ask him to open the spigots. The White House revealed Bush's private meeting with the Saudi monarch to reporters aboard Air Force One as the president flew to Egypt on the next leg of his Mideast trip. Earlier Tuesday, Bush made his case for having OPEC, and particularly American ally Saudi Arabia, increase oil production as the price of gas hovers around $3 a gallon. The Saudi oil minister, however, waited only a short time before announcing that oil prices would remain tied to market forces — a direct slap at Bush. The president went over the head of the oil minister and made his case to King Abdullah and White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said the private conversation may have yielded some daylight in the Saudis' hard-line stance. "The king says that he understands the situation. He's worried about high oil prices and how they can negatively affect economies around the world," Perino said aboard the presidential jetliner. "The president said there's a hope that as a result of these conversations that OPEC would be encouraged to authorize an increase in production … to help deal with the tight supply problems in this time when we have growing economies across the world, especially in China." Earlier, Bush told ABC News' Terry Moran how he would lobby the king. "I will say to him that, 'If it's possible, your majesty, consider what high prices are doing to one of your largest customers,'" Bush said. "In other words, the worst thing that can happen to an oil-producing nation is that the price of oil causes the economy to slow down, because that will inevitably lead to fewer purchases [of oil]." Bush said he's worried about an economic slowdown in the United States and around the world because of those high oil prices. "These are smart people. They know that the price of oil can affect our economy, and they know that if our economy weakens and there's less purchasing power, that it will affect their ability to sell barrels of oil," the president said. Perino added, "This is not a situation that's going to be solved overnight, and that's why on a parallel track the president has been pursuing aggressively alternative and renewable forms of energy." When Bush ran for the White House in 2000, he said he would "jawbone" America's Saudi allies to lower the price of oil. The price of oil has hit a record of $100 a barrel, but has slipped to a current price of $91 a barrel on fears that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton took a shot at Bush's requests to the Saudis during the Democratic debate in Nevada Tuesday night. Referring to his pleading, she called the tactic "pathetic
Not a bow, obviously he just had to bend over cause the guy was so short. Get some taller gods Saudi!
Sarah Palin would've kneeled and John McCain would've rolled in on a wheelchair, so it doesn't really matter.
If you're referring to scene in John Adams where he's bowing repeatedly to King George shortly after winning the war, it may be worth noting that he was a diplomat at the time; so the context might be a little different.
Obama was acting as a diplomat of sorts, as well here...part of the job. He was on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan. YOU ARE PART OF THE REBEL ALLIANCE AND A TRAITOR!! TAKE HER AWAY!!!!! yeah, the most pressing need of the day is getting out some discovery responses, but i'm waiting on my client to give me some documents/emails to finish it out and my associate is on vacation...otherwise i'd be at home with my wife and kids. so you can expect more of this sort of nonsense.
