This week President Obama visited the Far East. One of his stops was to the Land of The Rising Sun, also known as Japan, or the Land of $8 Tomatoes, depending on your perspective.
While in that country he met with the Emperor and his wife, and bowed to them. Why? why would he do this? Simple. To get people off his back for bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia. After the brouhaha that erupted over his inappropriate display of deference to a foreign leaders the White House advisors had a confab.
They decided to bide their time. He couldn't "learn his lesson," and stop bowing to foreign monarchs after he bowed to King Saud, that would leave him with a legacy of only bowing to a Muslim King. So he had to wait. And wait. And bide his time until he met with another foreign Monarch to "make a protocol mistake" upon meeting.
So now he's bowed to two kings (though I don't think he bowed to Queen Elizabeth when he met her...I'd say cuz we kinda beat them in a war, but we beat japan too, so to keep my theory alive, I'll say he's sexist too!), and he can stop.
He will no longer be the President who bowed to the A-rab only.
Very clever.
1 comment:
you can argue that he still only showed respect to the Arab leader because, hey, aren't you supposed to bow in greeting to people in Japan? Maybe it would've been a worse offense if he had greeted him by shaking hands( don't some cultures believe that shaking hands is a sign of death, or whatever the heck it is?)
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