that Obama is the leader of the free world that Japan wants to keep free..

Jake Tapper strikes… http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/15/japan-expert-to-abc-yes-obamas-bow-made-him-look-like-an-idiot/

My favorite line…”Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.”

Age 87, doing fine. I have a picture of Dad next to his Stearman plane (a biplane)in the 1940’s which I post every Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and the like. He flew B29’s. He is like others who survived the experience in that he does not like to talk about it. He doesn’t get mad or anything, he just doesn’t want to go into it. Some years back someone in the service tracked him down to see if he would participate in a kind of recognition program for these rapidly dwindling survivors. Dad kindly declined. Japan was a very big deal to these men.

Please save us. Please.

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when they disebarked, and, being shot into oblivion, but, the US did prevail. Obama is worse than an embarrasement, he is a Communis appologist. From what I read, he couldn’t even get the “BOW” right. You don’t bow at the same time you are shaking hands with the royalty. This idiot in chief is trying to chart his own Liberal course which doesn’t include protocal, he is turning protocal on it’s head. I wonder if the Japanese royalty came here if they would bow to Obama. I would like to believe that he is just an idiot, but, he has an agenda, and, it ain’t pretty for the US.

NT

The days when our President went to Japan and upchucked on their leaders.

As embarassing as that incident might have been, it’s nothing compared to our moonbeam messiah bending over and sticking his nose in the Emperor’s groin.

What a clown!

Bowing is a form of etiquette in Japan, just like shaking hands in this country. We are, by the way, allies with Japan now because of, not in spite of, the sacrifices our soldiers made in the 1940’s.

America, as the founding fathers intended, should never be an imperial power. Your apparent disgust at the President’s respect for other nations indicates to me that you are simply an American imperialist.

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Do think there’s any way we can swap Barry for say, an eggroll or something? I like eggrolls.

…52% of the voters actually thought this ignorant clod, this arrogant-without-cause egomaniac, this rabid socialist, this “community organizer” without even a sliver of administrative experience or qualifications, would make a dandy chief executive and commander-in-chief.

Too bad we can’t institute some form of term limits on ignorant and/or comatose voters.

nt

Every day it gets worse. What kind of a man can run around the world insulting his countrymen? He was not appointed to this job. He ASKED for it. And now he doesn’t miss any opportunity to insult.

this goes back to Carter

severely wounded on Guadalcanal. Lying in a line of dead Marines, a Corpsman was just about to push his dog-tags between his teeth when the Corpsman saw my great-uncle’s eyes flutter. He was saved, patched up on a hospital ship, and returned to duty and further island hopping. He is still alive today, and his wish…after his death…is to be cremated and his ashes spread in the Pacific; in order to be with his buddies.

My wife is the granddaughter of a former member of the Japanese Imperial Army. He was stationed in Nanking for the majority of WWII. My mother-in-law, born in Nanking during the Japanese occupation, lost family in Nagasaki. (She never speaks of it…my wife is the one who told me.)

Even allowing for both of the above statements, and the fact that Japan is an ally today, it is an affront to the memory of those who fought and died protecting our nation for our President to bow to the Emperor of Japan. He is truly clueless.

In the 1908 Olympics, in London, the US team did not dip its flag to the King of England as the team marched in the opening parade. Irish-American athletes on the team saw to it.

In response to the following press uprorar, US team captain Martin Sheridan (a native of County Mayo) reportedly replied “This flag dips to no earthly king.”

What a great American tradition.

Who told President Obama that is was his to disregard?

This is my first time commenting. I’ve been reading redstate for a few months now. The entry last week when we found out the RNC had been funding abortions was the one that drove me to actually register with the site to say something on here. Alas, a 24 wait! Haha.

But yes, am I paranoid? IMO, there is absolutely zero reason for him to greet the Japanese leader in this manner. He and his advisors and czars know the reaction it would recieve back home. They may be conniving and subversive but they’re not dumb. They’re calculating, or at least they think so.

It couldn’t be that he’s PURPOSEFULLY trying to agrivate us, the so called “teabaggers”? Are we positive we aren’t being baited and used?

I hope not but does anyone else get that feeling? Because he KNOWS this wasn’t a good idea. He knows.

does not know what a fool he is making of himself.

Bring the GITMO terrorist to American soil, make the place they stay the biggest terror target on earth.

In another time and place the Japanese Emperor and his family might have been killed or banished to a foreign land by the conquering forces. But the allies allowed Japan to keep its Emperor and didn’t require his removal as a condition of surrender, which was the right decision but still, maybe the bow should be coming the other way. Actually I think the Emperor looks a little nonplussed at Obama’s bizarre contortion in that photo. Almost as if he wanted to laugh.

My father was in Iwo Jima, the Philippines, New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and many other places in the Pacific. He saw the horror of his friends and officers killed by the Japanese, who showed no mercy. I hate to say it, but I’m glad my dad’s memory isn’t as great as it used to be and he forgot he saw this happen.

look what Sen.Dick Durbin and ILLINOIS Gov. Pat Quinn are doing!

It’s outrageous!

He was part of the Naval Academy class of 1942. They graduated in January to rush them to fleet to replace the officers killed in Pearl Harbor. He served in Europe and the Pacific. He was on the Missouri when the surrender documents were signed.

He passed away in October 2008. My mother and I honestly agree that while we miss him, we are glad he is not around to see what Obama is doing to this country. My stepfather did not fight and suffer wounds that affected him for the rest of his life to see this country become socialism and have its leader bowing to a foreign sovereign.

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Remind these people we don’t work for them! they work for us!

It’s things like this that make me almost glad I’m no longer in the USAF.

the one that is just like all the rest, no better and probably a lot worse.
Truly it’s body language and the nasty little man, Barack, not the Emperor, thinks he’s being gloriously humble, for the country he despises, not himself.
Michelle must love it, she’s getting prouder of America by the minute.

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Does anyone have a ready document/website to cite when discussing this issue? I want to be able to show people why this was a violation of diplomatic protocol when it comes up in discussions, but my quick google searches and research on the State Department’s Office of Protocol web page have not turned up anything definitive. Thanks in advance.

The point being, Obama should only have bowed slightly, not the full obeisance he displays on a regular basis to foreign royalty (except the British). Just enough of a bow to show respect to the older man. But make no bones about it, Japan owes more of its allegiance and duty to us than the other way ’round. We beat them, then showed them mercy.

The little guy has a heck of a grip. Or, Obama is extremely impressed with the Japanese ability to crush their own economy and put half the population on the government dole. Or, Three day old sushi still has it’s effect even on divinity. I’m going with the last one, figuring digital editing cleaned up the mess.

But this doesn’t even look like a bow to me. It looks more like he’s bending down to better hear something Hirohito is telling him. If he was bowing, at least he got it right: hands at side and slight bend at the waist, not the full-on grovel a la Barry.

Seems the BIC (bower in charge) just doesnt have a clue.One thing for sure, he is consistant. May God continually Bless the USA.

Hey carter, your sacrid title is very much in jepordy.

that he hopes to live to see this man (voted out)/shoveled into the ash heap of history. God Bless my grandfather I hope he gets the chance. BTW, he turned red when I showed him that image.

Please thank your Grandfather for his service to our country. I also hope he lives to see this coward-in-chief voted out of office. God Bless Your Grandfather. He’s a true Patriot.

Obama wants to be king, not president. You can’t be king in a Republic (WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY). I believe Obama is trying to bring the USA down so he can be crowned king. He bows to dictators, and shuns leaders of free countries.

diverting attention with one move while completing his trick, with another, while not being observed, Behind closed doors, evil things are happening. Whats dirty harry doing? or is crap and tax being guided through the corridors? Or is Hillary giving away our handgun rights through the U.N.? Etc.Etc You almost need to be a video game enthusiast ,to keep up with all the moves, and the bad guys, being placed in potent positions, how do we keep up? Only through many eyes and ears, keeping each other informed. Meanwhile, the bravest of us, are still going without backup, because their commi err ah commander in chief has too many Important things to do. It should be as in Roman times, when the Commander was leading the boys into battle, to prove his worth.
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