We have here Barack Obama bowing to a king, which has never happened in our history. Not only that, but a Muslim king. Obama did not bow to Queen Elizabeth. To make things worse, Obama is now denying that he bowed, when its very clear thats exactly what he did. What the fuck is going on here? Sure, Bush held his hand, but you have to realize the significance of a US president bowing to royalty. Its not done, because we are not the subjects of any king. A peer does not bow to a king. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEUif1--r38]YouTube - Did Obama bow to Saudi King Abdullah, or was he cleaning the floor?[/ame] Clearly, a deep bow. A subservient show of weakness. Now he denies it as if we're all a bunch of idiots. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/White_House_No_bow_to_Saudi.html
Didn't bow and should have bowed to the queen mother and for sure should not have bowed to Some haji warlord criminal fuck
why should he have bowed to the queen? the fact that there even is a queen in england still is pretty pathetic. nobody should inflate her ego anymore than it already is.
He shouldn't have bowed to the queen. No US president has ever bowed to royalty. we just don't do it....
The same people he fooled into getting himself elected... The bowing part, really not a big deal in my book (so what if this guy is a warlord, we don't have a perfect record, either). I'm not sure what the standard protocol is as to bowing to foreign heads of state, and, frankly, I couldn't care less. It was a gesture. Out of respect. BFD. We need to get off our fucking high horse here and show some courtesy, even if we are AMERICA. The lying part, however, just further proves to me how spineless Obama is.
Obama was a little jumpy from the ceremonial gunfire in Turkey [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzbqdaeJ8Ok&feature=related]YouTube - Obama's Fear at Turkey visit[/ame]
They probably thought it was funny, beacuse in Islam you are forbidden to bow to anyone/thing but God.
I do see where your coming from, but it seems more like he was just tring to be respectful, in turn he mistakingly called the sauid warlord... a god
It doesn't really offend me, I'm more embarassed for Obama than America. What I don't get is how he wasn't familiarized with protocol...
Apparently a lot of Americans were confused on just how inexperienced he was too, thus, his election. lol WERD
im surprised he lied about it. thats fucked up. but why the hell does it matter that he bowed? if a leader of a nation is visiting another nation, on their ground, you show respect to them. thats how it is. everyone in the world has different customs, if thats how a leader of a country expects respect, thats how you give it to him. youre visiting HIS country. if he came here, he'd show respect to obama too.. fuckin duh
he grew up a muslim. this is out of respect to a muslim king. i am a muslim and i know this. i love how you all can freely talk shit about your presidents, go to saudi arabia and try that shit with the king.