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Originally Posted by MMM
When you say "thought by many"
According to FOX News it didn't go against protocol and there are no "hard and fast" rules.
Explain how President Obama misrepresented you by bowing his head to the emperor.
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Thought by many meaning the critics of his action.
The president isn't going to be impeached for this nor should he.
He didn't "affend" me personally but obviously it did to some. But I agree with the Kyodo News view from the ABC news piece.
"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.
"The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms....The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part."
Politically, many don't like seeing the leader of the free world bow to anyone. The bow in this case, a Japanese custom greeting of humbleness, clashes with other thoughts on what a bow means - as your previously defined. Come on, didn't you ever watch Superman II where they said the president wouldn't bow to anyone but the the three super villians made him. Its just the west mindset ^^/
Read the ABC piece for some thoughts from both sides of this.
My only goal here was to make you read and quote fox news. My work here is done.