Obama: “ashamed of his country but arrogant about himself”
A losing combination—for America. Obama bows, disses his predecessor, and praises himself. So, what else is new?
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[ADDENDUM: In addition, by referring to himself as “America’s first Pacific pesident,” was Obama making a pun?]
And now…. caught in the spam filter! Oh the ignominy!
was Obama making a pun?
I doubt he’s bright enough to do that, or even to appreciate that others would consider it a pun. Moreover, has anyone seen any evidence of him having a sense of humor? I’ve yet to see a scintilla of evidence for it. Saying stupid things that other people find funny doesn’t count.
Please neoneocon – The Won is NOT bowing.
He’s simply checking out Emperor Akihito’s shoe shine to see if it needs a little more spit polish….
Seriously though – the president of the US is BOWING to yet another foreign ruler?!?!?!
I really HOPE this CHANGES soon…..
Occam’s Beard Says:
November 14th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Heh.â„¢
American Power tracked back with (the best video evah!), ‘Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ America’s World Standing With His Head Down – UPDATE: REAGAN DIDN’T BOW!!’.
I’ve long thought that a shoeshine station at O’Hare was inexplicably unmanned.
Saying stupid things that other people find funny doesn’t count.
My favorite: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Huh? We’ve been waiting…for ourselves??Maybe it’s a poor translation of an Indonesian aphorism.
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“Ashamed of his country but arrogant about himself”…that is precisely the mentality that C S Lewis astutely analyzer, more than 60 years ago, in an essay that I excerpt here.
“Liberal guilt” is pretty much a myth, at least as far as our present-day “progressives” go. It’s not that *they* feel guilty; it’s that the think the *rest* of us should feel guilty.
I think that he wasn’t bowing so much as he was trying to find his ass.
Hi Neo,
A fairly informed sounding reader sent an email to Glen Reynolds explaining that bowing to the Japanese Prime Minister was probably an ok thing to do.
Its not ok in just about any other culture. But in Japan its probably fine. Japan is also a very good friend. Probably even better than that other country we turned into a democracy after WWII.
James
James, Japan is absolutely a better friend to us than Germany. No question about that.
Still, I question the bowing business. In Japan the depth of the bow is significant. The Mulatto Messiah couldn’t have bowed much lower without giving the Japanese Prime Minister a “Hollywood Hello.”
In my view, the proper thing to do – which I myself have done, on numerous occasions – is a quick, brief bow largely from the neck, to indicate respect for the individual and the customs of his culture, but without suggesting subservience.
One would think that Obama, coming from the race that was most recently servile (as opposed to those who were previously servile, such as the Slavs, whose name meant “slaves”), would be sensitive to symbolic displays of subservience. But then, one would be wrong.
James: you are completely missing the point. The President of the US bows to no leader as a matter of protocol. It doesn’t matter where the leader is from. It indicates subservience to royalty and is un-American. It wouldn’t matter if it were the Queen of England, our best and longest ally.
And I do not think that Obama made this bow in error or by chance.
neo’s absolutely right. In my time in the UK I had a problem with “Lord” or “Lady” Muckety-muck,” and never once referred to any peer of the realm as “Lord” or “Lady,” recasting sentences as necessary to avoid the aristocratic honorific, trying as much as possible not to make this any more obvious than necessary. (Given the much greater sensitivity of the Brits – especially upper class Brits – to language, I had no illusions that I was deceiving them. I was only attempting to thread the needle between giving offense (offence?) on one hand and offering subservience on the other.) Would that our President had done the same.
such as the Slavs, whose name meant “slaves”
Actually, that’s getting the definition back to front. In their OWN language, “Slav” means “famous, renowned”, so the Slavs referred to themselves as “the famous/glorious people”. When they were captured in great numbers and used as slaves, their word entered the Latin language, and became a synonym for bound labourer.
It’s sort of the same way “Caesar” went from being a family name of a particular clan to a general word for “emperor”, and so travelled all the way to Germany (Kaiser) and Russia (Tsar).
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The sooner this doofus is gone from the presidency, the better. Let’s just hope he hasn’t done irretrievable damage by then.
he was telling the emperor that if it was him who was throwing up, he would have thrown up on the emperors shoes not his wife.