Obama bows to saudi king; denies it.

[Miklelottesen]

So what if he bowed. He's not used to being a peer to other world leaders yet, he's only just got in office and he made a mistake once. Do you expect your president to be a cyborg that's been programmed 100% flawlessly? He would have been an idiot if he did it on purpose; he'd know that people would flame him for it..

[Gloom]

Originally Posted by Miklelottesen

So what if he bowed. He's not used to being a peer to other world leaders yet, he's only just got in office and he made a mistake once. Do you expect your president to be a cyborg that's been programmed 100% flawlessly? He would have been an idiot if he did it on purpose; he'd know that people would flame him for it..

Yes, but why lie about it?

[Salvial]

Wow. Talk about a non-issue.

[FreeMJ]

To all of you retards who think that obama didn't bow...SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

He clearly bowed, thus displaying that he is below the saudi king.
He doesn't have to bend over a full 90 degrees to bow. Seriously, if you think otherwise then you are a dumbass. Servants of kings around the world bow less than he did. The media can downplay it all they want and allow the idiots of america who voted for him to beleive it.

Sure, it isn't a big deal if you're narrow mind, but in the whole scope of things, it is a big deal. It is against protocol and he clearly displayed how we are fucked.

Your beloved DUMBASS BLACK president is becoming a joke. Laughing at legalizing cannabis and now showing his love of muslims. Heard his speech lately??

[HippiesRule420]

"I'm not going to bow to a Christian queen who has been ruling her country for 57 years now but I will bow to a Muslim king who has complete control over his country, obviously hates women, and hates all who aren't Muslim and for an addeded plus, someone who's been ruling for 4 years."-Barack Obama

[Mist425]

For fucks sake you guys...

Admittedly, it's uncool for him to just lie about it in an attempt to avoid some bad p.r (can I get a link to his press release saying he denied it happened by the way?)...

But what's there to freak out about here? Do you really care that Obama made a foolish symbolic gesture? Or are you just looking for an excuse to attack him. This gesture does not convey Obama's complete obedience to Saudi oil barons as some people are suggesting, it shows that Obama, like Bush, can make himself look like a dumbass.

So make fun of Obama all you want. That's totally legitimate. Bush was made fun of for every year of his presidency. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking this means anything more than that Obama's human.

[FreeMJ]

dude, it's the specific gesture that is an issue. Not that he did something stupid. Had it been spilling a drink on the king, then it would been a non-issue.


Like it or not, you voted for someone who has allegiance to muslims showed he is a subordinate to the saudi king. So however you spin it, that is how it is.

[Mist425]

Originally Posted by FreeMJ

dude, it's the specific gesture that is an issue. Not that he did something stupid. Had it been spilling a drink on the king, then it would been a non-issue.


Like it or not, you voted for someone who has allegiance to muslims showed he is a subordinate to the saudi king. So however you spin it, that is how it is.

Spin it? I believe you're the one doing the spinning. He didn't sign a fucking contract in blood declaring every american's soul the property of the Saudi King. He bowed to the dude. You're making mountains out of molehills.

[AK Infinity]

Originally Posted by Dronetek

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.

Clearly, a deep bow. A subservient show of weakness. Now he denies it as if we're all a bunch of idiots.

Ben Smith's Blog: White House: No bow to Saudi - POLITICO.com

Yes, yes I'm sure it was obviously more sinister than a naive breach in protocol. I'm certain President Obama intended to cede the power of the free world to the Saudis so that everyone could see that the American President is obviously inferior to their King, after all his name is Barack Hussein Obama. When are people going to understand that President Obama is a Muslim plant that was born in Kenya and that answers directly to the Saudis?

In one gesture the terrorist Obama has undone the greatest country in the history of the world, heh, I guess that's what happens when you put a brotha in charge.

[FreshMeat]

He bowed, cause he broke eye contact, that shows he is under the king oil baron bitch, as for the queen, hell we are still owned by crown land, only funded by china. The USA has been sold by corporations to foreign investors, sad isn't it, these fuckers sell your soul for a new yacht, soon it will be a USSA under a UN Cheeseburger.

[poncho]

shit you wouldnt even have cars to drive without that king dude, you cant say shit.

he only bowed to him because thats how he showed him respect. theres a whole world out there, and respect is showed a lot differently in someplaces than it is in america.

you people are weird

[Gloom]

Originally Posted by poncho

you people are weird

As are his lies. Refusing to question him will only result with deception and if you question something, question his lies.

[NJSourD]

Originally Posted by FreeMJ

Your beloved DUMBASS BLACK president is becoming a joke.

I'm kind of neutral on the subject...but...really?

[Talon]

Originally Posted by aaronman

Where do you live? I read that bowing to anybody but Allah is blasphemy.

accepting anyone as your god other than allah is a sign of blasphemy. thats like saying bowing to your christian king is BLASPHEMY as youre putting SOMEONE BEFORE YOUR god. its not true now is it. get your facts together.

[Deutschbag]

A take on it by the conservative blog Hot Air (the CNN video isn't working anymore for me at least, you can try on the website.)
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: CNN mildly scolds Obama for bow, media for ignoring it

The White House miscalculated on its “no-bow” response. CNN spends a couple of minutes calling them on it — and giving profuse credit to Hot Air while doing so. Take a close look at the video shots in this Jeanne Moos segment, which aired this morning, and you’ll recognize my handiwork, especially in the part where CNN compares the bow to Saudi King Abdullah and the correct protocol of a head nod to the shorter Queen Elizabeth (hat tip: HA reader Geoff A):

Moos plays it down the middle in the inevitable man-on-the-street interviews, but winds up mildly chiding both the White House and the media for ignoring this. She plays a portion of Jay Leno’s focus on George Bush’s handholding with Abdullah, which got reams of press when it happened, strongly suggesting the double standard of the media in ignoring the bow altogether, at least until now. Moos also shows that the bow preceded the two-handed handshake, and concludes that the White House is not being terribly honest.
Kudos to CNN for covering the story at all — and kudos for giving us credit for the source material. They even covered the Obamateurism of the Day feature, and I’ll bet Chris Muir gets a kick out of that.
Instead of just acknowledging an error, Robert Gibbs lied about it, and all but dared the media to report it. CNN isn’t the only media outlet taking the challenge, either. The Chicago Sun-Times scolds Obama for his display, now that the White House tried to spin it:

Did he or didn’t he? Did President Obama bow to Saudi King Abdullah at the G-20 meeting in London? That question is creating a bit of a dust-up in the blogosphere. The brouhaha reminds me of the tsk-tsking a few years back when President George W. Bush was photographed holding hands with then-Crown Prince Abdullah. …
That said, the president of the United States does not bow to kings. He is not only the chief of government, he’s our head of state — the equal of any monarch. The White House says Obama didn’t bow, that he “grasped (Abdullah’s) hand with two hands and he’s taller than King Abdullah.”
Sorry, but a videotape on YouTube doesn’t quite back that up. Obama clearly bends his body toward the Arabian monarch, and Obama doesn’t grasp both the king’s hands until he’s standing straight up. As for the he’s-taller argument, the 6-foot-1-inch Obama towers over a lot of people, so we’d have seen him bowing during handshakes many times if that were the explanation. Furthermore, the king had his hand extended, so Obama didn’t have to reach down an inordinate amount to grab it.

Heads of state do not bow to other heads of state. Abdullah didn’t reciprocate with a bow to Obama, for instance, and none of the other heads of state in the original video did so much as a shoulder incline. It’s the act of a rank amateur, a man unprepared to represent a nation as head of state. Thankfully, a few people have begun to notice it.
Update: Deceiver experiences Wonkette’s “humor”, which relies heavily on fellatio.