Um…What is President Obama Doing to Saudi King Abdullah in This Photograph?


Look, I know he said he was going to go out of his way to get on other world leaders’ good sides, but this seems to be going a bit overboard.

Photograph courtesy of Atlas, who finds this an unwelcome gesture of submission to the head of a terror-sponsoring state.

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Hello....calling all WH Protocol Officers...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:38AM EST (link)

We quit bowing to kings sometime around 1776.

Furthermore, only subjects of the Kingdom are supposed to bow to the King…by doing this President Obama is saying that he is subject to the King’s authority…at least according to protocol.

What a buffoon!!!

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


ha!

cwilliams (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:03PM EST (link)

LOL when he gets a name like Bandar Bush, I’ll get worried.

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It's ok cwilliams...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:22PM EST (link)

I am sure Ron Paul would have bowed to the Saudi King as well.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


Please explain.

johnCV (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:47PM EST (link)

Never mind.....

johnCV (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:57PM EST (link)
 

ha!

cwilliams (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:50PM EST (link)

Yes most likely.

RP has enough education and culture to understand WHY he would bow.

Anyone who is critical of a simple bow is simply uneducated. There is no “submissive” undertones with a simple bow, its a customary Arab greeting. Like shaking hands!

In fact I would prefer bowing, as it is I touch too many hands the way it is! Eww GERMS!

However, the hand holding and petting the BUSH family has taken part in.

IS ANOTHER STORY IN ITSELF!

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GW BUSH and HIS* GOP
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-RON PAUL 2012-

ok cwilliams....

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:57PM EST (link)

So it is ok when Obama does it and ok if Ron Paul were to do it…but is a Bush does it….NEW WORLD ORDER….BLACK CHOPPERS…GOLD STANDARD….AHHHHHHH

Oh and as far as the bow being a customary Arab greeting….why, then, didn’t the King bow back????

Get a clue.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


nah

cwilliams (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:05PM EST (link)

Aaron,

There is no “bowing” back, a simple nod will do.

Japan has a similier custom. You should travel more its a crazy world out there!

GOOGLE image search for “BUSH SAUDI”

prepare to gag!

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!!! NEVER FORGET !!!
GW BUSH and HIS* GOP
—————————–
-RON PAUL 2012-

cwilliams

streiff (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:11PM EST (link)

you stopped being amusing so your presence no longer serves any useful function.

Go help Ron Paul and Lyndon Larrouche restructure the economy.

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

 

According to protocol...you are wrong...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:16PM EST (link)

See here

If you don’t like that link I am sure I can rustle up another….maybe one that mentions the gold standard or something.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

It's been a while since we had an obnoxious Ronulan here

Bill S (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:24PM EST (link)

Brings back memories…

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

You just don't like Ron Paul because you haven't seen this video

Gyorc Nacain Thursday, April 2nd at 11:41PM EST (link)

Heh - that's good

Bill S (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 12:02AM EST (link)

but he’s still a goofball.

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 

No. I don't like Ron Paul because he's a do-nothing airhead

mbecker908 (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 12:32AM EST (link)

who’s been in Congress for 20+ years and managed to accomplish not one single thing legislatively. He’s not even tried. The fool is a fakir. And you’re too stupid to come in out of the rain.

I think you mean "faker"

aesthete (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 12:38AM EST (link)

A “fakir” is a Muslim religious ascetic who lives solely on alms.

*pauses*

Actually, that works :P

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton

 

just watch it...it explains everything. I don't think anyone could rationally oppose Ron Paul after watching that video nt

Gyorc Nacain Friday, April 3rd at 1:48AM EST (link)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

He is respecting his master

clifwest Thursday, April 2nd at 8:44PM EST (link)

Obama knows that he must bow before his master or be ousted from his Islamic upbringing. I think it only proper. This is what happens when he misreads his teleprompter, again. One of these days his handlers will get all of the kinks out of their directions and Obama will have clear sailing! Keep up the Bush bashing, simpleton, don’t miss a stroke. Silly putty makes a much better President.

 
 
 

What would be the proper greeting protocol (obviously not this)? nt.

Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:39AM EST (link)

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

 

Uh...hey king,

harlan Thursday, April 2nd at 11:40AM EST (link)

….is that a mouse in your burkha, or are you just glad to see me?

 

I think he has a

streiff (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:42AM EST (link)

Larry Craig problem

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

Nah, he's just ducking into the king's tent

blooch Thursday, April 2nd at 8:39PM EST (link)

for a quick smoke.

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 
 

Hey

Pomme (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:44AM EST (link)

“Is that made out of chiffon?”

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” William F Buckley Jr.

 

Is that Sarko lining up to be...next? nt

pilgrim (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:45AM EST (link)

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WTH... this guy

antisocial (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:58AM EST (link)

does not realize he is the President of The United States.

Sir you are no longer a street agitator. Stop embarrassing your Nation and start behaving like a President.

Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
——————————
No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!

 

Obama just loves Arab men's dresses like thobes, scarbes, etc. It's really a "Moslem" thing, something average Americans like "us" won't understand.

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:03PM EST (link)

BUT I DON’T REALLY THINK OBAMA BOWED OUT THE ARAB KING.

Dear Leader Obama is too egoistic enough to do that!

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.
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but but

The alternative opinion is more worrisome:

He just loves to CHECK OUT Arab Kings and Princes.
Still, it’s a Muslim thing. (he he)

 

I guess

Tanggor (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:04PM EST (link)

we should be grateful he’s not bending over in the other direction.

Yet.

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” – George Washington

 

Newsweek inadvertently says too much about Obama

Finrod (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:05PM EST (link)

From this article:

According to a person close to the situation, Obama hasn’t yet appointed a chief of protocol and his staffers, still unpacking, didn’t realize that the State Department has an entire office dedicated to foreign visits.

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

 

Special Relationship?

daves_not_here (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:40PM EST (link)

News video shows Obama did not bow to Queen Elizabeth, the reigning head of state of a country we have up until a couple of months ago had a “special relationship” with. Instead, he greeted her with a 2-handed handshake. OK, maybe protocol doesn’t allow the POTUS to bow to a foreign head of state. I can dig that. Of course, FLOTUS probably should have at least courtsied. So why the **** is he groveling before the Saudi King?

This pretty well removes any doubt that the repetitive snubs and insults to representatives of the UK could be accidental and the result of ignorance. It is looking more and more as though Obama is deliberately attempting to drive a wedge between the US and the UK, while he cozies up to more worthy partners

“I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

 

O didn't bow to the Queen,

johnt Thursday, April 2nd at 12:41PM EST (link)

but Hussien saves it for this guy. The O’s middle name is still Hussien isn’t it? The bent knee shown is particularly disgusting from this increasingly disgusting hero of the left.
At least O didn’t physically grovel, or was that saved for the private audience?

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

i have to take respectful exception to this joke, jeff

icbm (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:41PM EST (link)

i would expect a joke of this kind from dailykos, not redstate.

i think obama is a nitwit, a bumbler, a naif, a fool, a deceiver, an opportunist, a charlatan, an arrogant blowhard, and the most dangerous man in america in at least a century (more dangerous than fdr because fdr at least understood certain fundamentals of handling foreign policy and protecting national security, even if he was wrong about things like the british empire and the internal threat of communist spies).

but he is the president, and it is not for us to demean that office with a joke such as this one. i’m all in favor of laughing at the president, but this one goes too far.

What joke icbm??...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:47PM EST (link)

Jeff has been putting out diaries on the lack of proper protocol for the entire POTUS trip thus far….this is just another example. I think you may be reading something into this that is not there.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

uhhhhhh, what joke?

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:47PM EST (link)

I see the leader of the free world making a gesture of submission to a tin-pot petro-dictator.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

the joke that atlas (see jeff's link) and streiff both

icbm (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:48PM EST (link)

saw.

but maybe i’m off here. if neither you nor aaron saw what i saw, then maybe jeff was not going as far as atlas was.

icbm....I think Jeff was referring to this part:

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:55PM EST (link)

All kidding aside, this image is startling. Disturbing. It is the very image of America submitting to Islam. Gross.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

oh, THAT joke

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:15PM EST (link)

Look, that was Pam Gellar, I don’t think Jeff was necessarily signing on to that part of it. But if so, well, it bothers you more than me.

We’re cool tho.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

i am happy that

icbm (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:59PM EST (link)

it appears that others did not have the same impression i had.

thanks.

 
 
 
 
 

The joke is the one in the photo demeaning our entire nation

daves_not_here (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:45PM EST (link)

And it’s not very funny.

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5 (nt)

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Seconded! (nt)

larueladue (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:45PM EST (link)
 
 

Humbly offering his gift of an .. iPod?

bdeitrich Thursday, April 2nd at 12:52PM EST (link)

Or just showing his backside to the camera?

Like someone above said, good thing he wasn’t facing the other direction. Ugh.

 

What the...

WarEagle01 (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:54PM EST (link)

It looks like Obama is kissing his hand!?

“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg

“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)

Youtube

securitymom (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:32PM EST (link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgDsXbThvv8

“Security Mom/Grandma”

I wouldn't have believed it

JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 5:06PM EST (link)

I was willing to put another interpretation on the photo — after all, others in the photo are looking down, so maybe the Obamanator was just bending over to see something.

But the video confirmed — it was a bow.

Why am I stunned?

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 
 
 

LOL

cwilliams (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:04PM EST (link)

I MISS BANDAR BUSH!

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!!! NEVER FORGET !!!
GW BUSH and HIS* GOP
—————————–
-RON PAUL 2012-

 

Joke ?

johnt Thursday, April 2nd at 1:28PM EST (link)

On bended knee? You will forgive my mentioning it but the Founding Fathers of late and fading memory must be, or would be, sick to their stomach’s at Hussien’s bow and scrape.
Respect is earned and cannot be guaranteed by however you lied your way into office.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

Funniest response...

azaeroprof (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:43PM EST (link)

I love the comment at the Atlas story that Jeff links that says Obama is just bending over explaining to the Saudi king how to operate the magic decoder ring that Obama gave him as a gift!

LOL!!!!!

mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:39PM EST (link)

There goes another one that we have to wonder if it’s true or not, with his recent gifts. It so would not suprrise me.
I still can’t get over the ipod or the helicopters..

 
 

About the 500+ entourage - Basketball Jones in attendance

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:56PM EST (link)

You’ll love this one – you’ve heard about the 500+ (over-sized proportion) the Obama crowd ballooned its entourage to? UK Telegraph: Entourage Envy mentions how Obama brought a BASKETBALL BUDDY along to play hoops if the “O” has time and is bored!!!

Keep sending those apologies and Cards of Thanks… they have noticed… it has been mentioned a couple of times on FOX but I keep hoping enough Letters/Calls to the Embassy occur that the UK Telegraph will do a write up….

Don’t forget to keep stopping by the UK Telegraph site and send them an email Letter of Thanks (for their countries relation with us) and Apology (for our leaders lack of brain-power, tradition, protocol, etc) dtletters@telegraph.co.uk and stletters@telegraph.co.uk or physical:
UK Telegraph
Freepost
LON 18545
Chatham, Kent ME4 4BR

and as a few noted elsewhere:
British Embassy
3100 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008

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“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
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Maybe he was stealing the King's pinkie ring?

streetwise (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:07PM EST (link)

That would be a few million to plug the deficit right there!

 

Come on, he just dropped his breathalizer...

speciallist (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:20PM EST (link)

(weeeze….)

Maybe the bong just slipped? nt

streetwise (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:51PM EST (link)
 

"Rush Limbaugh" FAIL comment Poll at PollingPoint

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jump to PollingPoint to join up and participate in the Limbaugh Poll

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 

I first thought he looks like he wants to tie the man's shoe. nt

mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:37PM EST (link)

So The One is subjugating himself to the King of Saudi Arabia....well leftists....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:55PM EST (link)

who is the pocket of the House of Saud NOW? well not really in the pocket WHY NO he has actually lowered/subjugated himself beneath the crown of that country! HE IS DISGUSTING!

Why do we sell that country its weapons? nt

Alitheia (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:04PM EST (link)

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never be forced to live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I know!

cwilliams (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:06PM EST (link)

We like the CHEAP OIL.

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!!! NEVER FORGET !!!
GW BUSH and HIS* GOP
—————————–
-RON PAUL 2012-

We pay more in the long run. nt

Alitheia (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 1:27PM EST (link)

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never be forced to live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

 
 
 
 

"Shine Mister?"

Tbone (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:44PM EST (link)

nt

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

 

Loved this!!!

RottDawg (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 4:25PM EST (link)

Man is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald Reagan

AWESOME!!!!!

Deskpilot (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:04PM EST (link)

Keep ‘em comin’

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can still read it in English, You’re Welcome
Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)

 
 

Isn't that the same terrorist

grillinvillain Thursday, April 2nd at 5:09PM EST (link)

That Dubya held hands with?

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/L/c/bush_abdullah_chaching.jpg

And they still screwed us on oil prices.

Upon further review, blam (nt)

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bowing? or getting ready for a jump ball? nt

Common_Cents (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:18PM EST (link)

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

 

open thread results of today's votes in the House

pilgrim (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:26PM EST (link)

38 Rs vote Nay on Republican Substitute 2010 Budget which Failed 137-293

Barton (TX)
Bilirakis
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Cao
Capito
Castle
Duncan
Emerson
Gerlach
Heller
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
King (NY)
Kirk
Lance
Latham
LaTourette
Lee (NY)
LoBiondo
Mack
McCotter
McHugh
Miller (MI)
Murphy, Tim
Paul
Platts
Reichert
Rogers (AL)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Smith (NJ)
Souder
Upton
Walden
Wolf
Young (FL)

These 38 all vote Nay on final passage of the Democratic 2010 Budget Bill and 20 Ds who also voted Nay on final passage.which passed 233-196

Barrow
Boren
Bright
Childers
Donnelly (IN)
Foster
Griffith
Kosmas
Kratovil
Kucinich
Markey (CO)
Marshall
Matheson
McIntyre
Minnick
Mitchell
Nye
Perriello
Taylor
Teague


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Why would republicans vote against their own substitute and the dem budget? - and

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 9:58PM EST (link)

do we know if cap and trade and health care reform was in the dem budget that passed?

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

well Ron Paul is one of them

pilgrim (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 10:03PM EST (link)

I think he has racked up more Nay votes than anyone else in the House. I believe the House just has the overall money for their energy and healthcare plans put into this budget bill. The bill is just a basic blueprint for how much they want to spend without the specifics.


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While our fraud of a president was bowing down to The Saudi King.......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:27PM EST (link)

In Israel, a 13 year old boy was murdered and a 7 year old severely injured…………………….

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130730

One boy was murdered and a second was seriously wounded by the axe-wielding terrorist, who infiltrated the Gush Etzion community, carried out the attack and managed to escape within an hour’s span.

————————

And don’t anyone dare tell me to not compare the two “events”.

Both are “man-made disasters”.

12 hours later, the 13-year-old's funeral

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:36PM EST (link)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130745

Thousands of family, friends, and Israeli citizens wishing to express solidarity attended the funeral of Shlomo Nativ on Thursday. Shlomo, a Jewish youth from Bat Ayin, located south of Jerusalem, was murdered by an Arab terrorist Thursday morning.

————–

Change.

 
 

Who photoshopped...

stang (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:31PM EST (link)

the “Kick Me!”" sign on Obama’s butt out of the picture?

“If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.”

Barbara Tuchman

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.”

John Locke

 

"That flag dips to no earthly king"

smagar (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:31PM EST (link)

That great statement was uttered by a US official during the 1908 (?) Olympics in London. The American team did not dip the Stars and Stripes to the King of England. When newspaper reporters asked US team officials why, that’s how one of them responded.

IIRC, the impetus for that act of defiance came from Irish-American athletes on the US team. Some went up to the flag bearer before the opening ceremonies and told him that, if the US flag dipped in front of the King, the flag-bearer would be in the hospital by nightfall.

That tradition has stood the test of time…but I fear it won’t survive The One’s administration.

“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)

 

Like a subject to the Crown

Michael DeWeese (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 1:14AM EST (link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAegSd6pu10

 

JFK wouldn't have kissed the Pope's ring...

Hammer2008 (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 1:44AM EST (link)

but somehow, 45 years later, this. How unbecoming of our President.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/obama_bows_down_to_saudi_king.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~
Too much noise! “Noise! You’ll have noise enough before long. The Regulars are coming out.” ~ Paul Revere (April 18th, 1775′s eve…)

 

Well, with a middle name like Hussein...

TNJim (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 2:04AM EST (link)

…maybe he thinks he is one of the king’s subjects.

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compare and contrast as usual

bk (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 3:38AM EST (link)

Can you imagine the howls we’d have heard about how stupid Bush was for letting his wife paw the queen or how Bush’s deep bow to the Saudi king was proof that he was owned by oil interests?

Why would you compare yourself to someone you consider unmannered and uncultured?

Alitheia (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 3:49AM EST (link)

Who cares what the other side would do? We do what is right because it is right. If Obama brings the economy into a death spiral, attack. This is irrelevant, and though the left may have howled, you should treat it like the nothing that it is.

Not should, should is a strong word. I would. It’s just silly customs, and they were probably more excited to see him than he was to see them. He’s huge in Europe. Japan, too.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never be forced to live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

What's wrong with pointing out double standards?

bk (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 4:44AM EST (link)

Obama got elected because he and Michelle are these super-smart, well-spoken geniuses. It turns out he’s an idiot who can only read what’s on a teleprompter. He’s completely stiffing Congress by appointing all these “czars” to run everything, the appointees who do get reviewed by Congress are tax cheats, he’s running an even more secret administration than Bush did, and yet the press continues to worship his every move.

Point out the double standards of politicians, not teenagers on internet blogs. nt

Alitheia (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 1:22PM EST (link)

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never be forced to live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

 
 

the reason the Obama's are so loved in Europe and elsewhere is...

kyle8 (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 6:29AM EST (link)

because of Radical Chic. Tom Wolf wrote about it in the 1970′s. There are a certain type of White person (I think it is only found in white people) who literally hate everything good about their own culture and history and so they foolishly hold up as paragons everything which was once denigrated by western culture.

It is the thing that makes people tell myths about the “noble savages” who were displaced, and ascribe a greater value to African history, art, and literature than they deserve.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle