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This is *the* best version of this weekend’s “Obama bowed to a yellow” YouTube story, as broken by a Los Angeles Times blog that was begging for (and receiving) a Drudge link. Shots all around. [YouTube via Rumproast]
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Nothing is more embarrassing that a president with good manners. Nothing.
Blasphemy…he should have puked in the lap…
http://bombsanddollars.com/
I’m going to spin this that he was working his Twitter.
He should have peed on the emperor and then raped his wife. That’s what a real man would do.
blasphemy…he should have puked in his lap…
What’s worse is that Obama’s shoes are obviously caked with horse shit because he had just finished cleaning out the stalls, and he hadn’t even begun on airing out the linen’s yet, hence his really obsequious low bow so as to avoid a whuppin’.
Man, those comments are the LA Times article are just nuts. This is the final proof, as if more was actually needed, that the teabaggers will make up reasons to attack anything Obama does, no matter how uncontroversial it is.
Everyone needs to stop making YouTube videos for the next two years. The site should be taken down, and everyone who posts there should pay attention to their jobs, girlfriends, boyfriends, families, community activities, social activities, and social lives. This would mark a great improvement on contemporary society.
More and more, we live in a country with the mentality of 14 year old overly-hormonal boys for whom showing respect, if not agreement with the positions of, someone means you are weak.
I wish he would stop doing that. It’s starting to become a part of the “narrative”.
Do they have oil ?
At least he didn’t ask him to be his boyfriend.
Send out the Enola Gay!
Must’ve thought he was still in China.
Let’s hope mobboss45studios gets its pants sued off by George Lucas!
He has video proof that no other world leader bowed to the Emperor of Japan? I’ll just take his word for it. God knows I wouldn’t want to watch his extensive video archive of every single thing every other world leader has ever done in their lives while being a leader, just to see that none of them have ever bowed before the Emperor of Japan.
I’m more worried about trade imbalances and protectionist policies, oh and the load of freaks are producing some of that hard core anime, than I am of a simple show of respect.
Vulpes82: Better make that the Enola Heterosexual, you liberal freak.
I just assumed he was positioning himself to recieve the ceremonial Hello Kitty backpack.
thefrontpage: But then where would we get our fix of videos of cats & babies doing cute things?
The big improvement would be getting rid of everyone who comments on youtube, which is about 95% moronic douchebags.
Come to think of it, didn’t the Emperor of Japan conquer Hawaii in 1941 and never give it back? That’s why Barry never wants to show his birth certificate. The whole Kenya thing was just a red herring–he is actually Japanese, and a Manchurian Japanese, giving our country to the Kwangtung Army, because we are all Red dupes. “Obama” is a city in Japan. How could we have missed this?
Obama was promised that a very submissive bow would be rewarded with a teleprompter of extraordinary magnitude.
Oldskool: I get your point, but there is no ‘narrative’ beyond whatever Obama does is evil. Case in point? The same baboons that are yowling about this were screeching that Michelle had violated sacred royal protocol when she touched the fekkin’ British queen.
Click: Loaded with delicious Pocky, I hope.
Cue Malkin as the right’s Token Azn to criticize this as well! I look forward to her response.
What’s wrong with an admission of weakness? Has anyone compared Toyota with GM lately?
Click: I vote this as comment of the week
he should have puked in his lap…
Obama was going for the shoes, but his legendary cast-iron stomach refused to regurgitate the eggs and cigarettes he’d eaten that morning.
I have here a long-form raised-seal Kyoto Berf Certifucate that explains this obsequiosity.
“Ok, Tito…a bow…but no tongue. That shit ended with Bush and that raghead”
Larry McAwful: So it’s not about the skin lightening thing going around, but Obama made skin darkening cool before anyone else figured it out. Damn, he’s smart.
This is why we must have a President Cheney in 2012. He’d piss on them, then bomb the shit outta them. USA! USA!
Anyone else just fucking embarrassed by this country?
I’m still angry that John Adams bowed to King George when he was received as our nation’s first ambassador to the Court of Saint James. What a muslin fag commie that John Adams was.
Oldskool: I couldn’t disagree more. It’s bad enough the democrats in congress are bending over backwards to cover their own asses for the next election and running scared in spite of their majority. At some point we need to stop thinking about how things might be spun and actually move forward anyway; as Rachel Maddow rather astutely pointed out, we’re going to be painted as tax-and-spend, sissy-pants peacelover liberals anyway, so we might as well actually accomplish something.
Technically, it’s only a sign of weakness of you can’t stand back up…
He’s a secret Shinto kamikaze.
Doglessliberal: Sir/Madam, I disagree, and furthermore: boobies.
“I can’t wait for” the right to notice the expression (AND SITUATION) of Akihito. For you do not touch-and-bow. But you might be well-advised to do so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mZfpOfQYc
Touch him! Touch him! Give him flu!
Dashboard_Buddha: Historical fail. Meant to say Hirohito…not Tito.
freakishlystrong: yes…very much so.
greywindz: No, given current talking points on the right, he should have teabagged him.
Sleeves: (For the emperor does not smile either. A nice situational read.)
Oh that silly left and their silly silly spinning! Those silly wabbits will spin out of anything!
Click: Barry wouldn’t have had to bow if he had accepted the original gift, a collection of special live-action tentacle porn; but he thought he’d get criticized for that one.
user-of-owls: Ok, sorry I got a Monday morning stick up my nethers, but this is what I was talking about earlier. In November, Obama follows protocol on a visit to the Orient and is savaged. In April, Obama fails to sufficiently prattle about the “special relationship” we have with our Anglo-Saxon friends…and is savaged.
http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/01/embarrassingly-inept-president-stumbles-over-diplomacy-protocol-yet-again/
Fucking venal bastards.
he was bending over because the emperor was so short - but he overshot his mark.
that’s what really happened here.
The Obama Derangement Syndrome is getting bad. I think it may be worse than the H1N1 spread now.
user-of-owls: Hell, if Obama had shaken the Emperor’s hand, the exact same people claiming that this was wrong because of something-or-other would be attacking him for not showing the proper respect.
Obama can’t worry too much about the narrative, because the teabaggers and Fox News crowd will make up a way to spin everything he does as bad.
He should have puked in his lap, given him an unsolicited, uncomfortable back massage, and then kissed and held his hand. Thus endeth the Bush School of Foreign Diplomatic Protocol.
OT:
Why is Meghan McCain bowing to Empress Carrie Prejean? Does President Obama Agree with Carrie Prejean’s Position on Gay Marriage?
Find all the answers here.
Sex tapes do NOT matter. No sir. And madam.
I assume the wingnuts expected him to “cowboy up” and greet the Emperor by firing six-shooters in the room and spitting chaw on the wife’s kimono. That’s what a real Merikin would do.
Larry McAwful: Post that in a diary at RedState, and I bet you could make that the next big conservative meme. I have this theory that half of the crap they spew originated from people signing up to parody them, and they never manage to get the joke.
That bow is so deep it’s very suspicious. I’m guessing he saw a 100 yen piece on the floor and was just looking to pick it up. Snark aside, aren’t the Hirihitos a cute couple?
Obama is an evil, evil dictator because he bows to someone in an Asian country, where everybody bows to each other. Shameful! How DARE he be polite!
Now George W., there was a real Murkin. He would feel up the German chancellor, smooch Saudi princes, and cha-cha-cha with Pakistani dictators, but it was all OK because he was torturing people, which made him strong.
user-of-owls: Well put…
Downtheroadapiece: But what’s the cure for that? ODS, that is.
OK, let’s put things into perspective:
Obama did a clumsy handshake/bow to Akihito.
Reagan shook hands and shared drinks with Hirohito, the motherfucker who raped China and bombed Pearl Harbor.
Don’t you people realize Barry has wires attached to his arms and legs? They edit it out in post-production. News flash: He also can’t really do a roundhouse kick to 14 different bad guys at once.
user-of-owls: True but it’s what you call a “gimme”, way too easy to be exploited. That the crazies are crazy is not in doubt but there’s no need to make it easy for them. You can just imagine the video montage in 2012.
Johnny Zhivago: I’d say he actually managed to bring himself down to his level. Quite a feat, considering how tall the President is compared to how short the Emperor is. Even the Empress is taller.
slithytoves: Adorable. “Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.”
Guppy06: But that was Reagan. Everything he did was great. He was the greatest President ever. Actually, he was the greatest person ever. Better than Jesus–I mean, does Jesus have an airport named after him?
DirtyHarriett: If I could figure that out, I’d be a very wealthy person I think.
Barry goes what, about 6′ 1? It was either bow to shake his hand or have the Secret Service lift the emperor up to his eye level. I think that second one would be a big no-no.
Oh, whatever.
Ah, monarchs. Can’t bow to ‘em, can girl-on-girl grope ‘em.
Yes, Obama should have put him in a Muay Thai clinch and started throwing knees. That’s a sign of strength right there.
One thing for sure: when America looks for leadership in the ponderous music department, you can’t beat the right wingers.
V/O: Obama bought a Portugese water dog.
Background: Doom doom DOOM DOOM.
Anyone old enough to remember Bush the Elder vomiting all over Hirohito at that press conference or something?
Actually, when are the Obamas going to Jordan? I’d pay serious coin to see Michelle and Queen Rania make out.
Breitbart told me that there was “outrage in Washington” over this. I was in Washington yesterday, and while people were outside in the 70 degree weather all they could talk about was this. Seriously guys.
Click: Oh please let that be the official spin on this story.
ZombieRichardFeynman: I second your vote.
PickneyPinchback: Totally different. With Merkel, it was Bush using his charm to win over a foreign nation. That is why Germany now provides us with healthcare on their dime.
user-of-owls: Heh. The Redstate guy complains that Barry called it England instead of Great Britain “in a move that likely incurred the less-than-warm-and-fuzzy feelings in residents of Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland”. This despite the fact that Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain at all, but the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. What is it they say about glass houses and stones?
Doglessliberal: http://www.world-airport-codes.com/panama/corazon-de-jesus-1663.html
Nobody does weakness and insecurity like wingnuts. Nuke ‘em all from the safety of our Christian outpost, Fortress America!
Damn. We just lost Perl Harbor.
Hello Sunshine: that’s just his HEART. Reagan’s whole body got an airport.
Fly Over Girl: Obama made skin darkening cool before anyone else figured it out.
So the ganguros are going to elect Obama as their king? Cool.
Paul Tardy: “As our Nipponese hosts instinctively rise to shield the President from view and any further missile attacks, our bally good eighteen-foot camera observes First Lady Barbara Bush” deploying her napkin.
Lookie what I found on Google!
http://jprschaefer.blogspot.com/2009/04/president-bows-to-foreign-leader.html
Mustang: The Alistoclats!
Click: Ooohhh Kawaii!
Dashboard_Buddha: Hirohito, get me a tissue!
Guppy06: Bow chicka bow-bow…
Guppy06: funny, no Drudge FLASHBACK: for that.
Does anybody have contact information for the Obama Administrations’ secret Czar of Innocuous-Things-We-Can-Do-To-Make-Wingnuts-Go-Apeshit-And-Get-Their-Knickers-In-A-Gigantic-Twist? Because I want to send in some ideas. For starters, I want it to get out that Obama is considering putting us on the metric system.
But he was wearing a flag pin, right?
Guppy06: Hey, thanks Google! But notice: Their cocks do not touch.
Um… Japan’s current emperor is Akihito. Hirohito was his father. And I do think it’s a little inconsistent that Obama bowed to Akihito, but not to Elizabeth II.
Well it’s pretty clear that the Japanese emperor is a secret muslin terrorist and Barack HUUUUSSSSEEEIIIIIINNNN OSSSSAAAAMAAAAAA is giving respect to his jihad lord!
What he shoulda said: “It seems like only yesterday we were strafing so many of your homes. Here I am today, begging you not to make such good cars.”
“Heh…remember back the day when we bombed y’all’s asses twice? We still got that shit. IJS.”
Showing weakness to the Japanese? THE PEOPLE OF PEARL HARBOR ARE DOOMED!!
Guppy06: It’s not necessarily that Obama bowed but the it was a deep and purposeful bow, not the kind of half-assed bow Tricky Dick probably did. The bow makes it look like Obama finds it too easy to bow to foreign rulers which is even further proof that he’s planning on handing us over to another country/NGO at some point. Personally, I’m hoping it’s the Royal House of Lumxembourg
QueenOfTheDamned: Getting the Wingnuts all riled up over the metric system again might be too dangerous– there’s nothing people hate more than having to learn a simpler, easier, more logical system of things. There WILL be blood.
Johnny26: He kinda sorta did: http://quickdailyhits.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/obama-bowing-to-queen.jpg
QueenOfTheDamned: Nothing would get wingnuts bent out of shape like phasing out the dollar bill in favor of the dollar coin.
Hooray For Anything: Alright, granted he didn’t bow as deep to Akihito as Nixon did to Hirohito, but as I said earlier, motherfucker bombed Pearl Harbor.
Johnny26:
He didn’t bow to her because she’s a cunt.
Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet.
Another tempest in a teapot. Reminds me of when JFK was running for president: everybody thought his Catholicism would mean that the US would end up being run by the Pope.
Can you imagine the outrage if he’d gone to Hiroshima?
Barry needs to cut that shit out. I mean, who bows in JAPAN of all places?
He just nodded out there for a minute. Lots of travel and little sleep. Plus the time zone difference thing. No biggie.
Obama is not bowing, he’s submissively offering his ass to his critics, so he may be well and truly buggered OUT OF RESPECT. And after they do him up the butt they will call him a ghey-boy who is insufficiently manly. It’s part of their genius.
Hooray For Anything: No Blood for Logic!
Not_So_Much: the problem child: Standing sit-ups are hard, yo.
Guppy06: True enough, although it should be noted that Pokemon was created while Akihito was Emperor so it hasn’t entirely been bloodless reign.
The entertainment value of pointing out that Nixon bowed to the frickin’ Commies in China almost 40 years ago cannot be underestimated for those of who frequent right leaning message boards…
I’d like to imagine that the United States really isn’t the nation of obnoxious dickhead tourists that NotAlwaysRight makes us out to be….But then I hear about shit like this….
When you dip Obama’s beak in water, he stands up and bows down to world leaders over and over again, without anybody having to touch him.
Hey, at least he is not holding hand with those Sunni Arab terrorists. Now that would really shame American, although no one here would make fun of that either.
mightycpa: Yeah, but only when he is setting of his Zippo lighter to ignite the gas main at his secret face manufacturing lair.
REAL Amerikun Presidents throw up on world leaders. Or give them back rubs, look into their soul (via the ‘eyes’), or just bomb the shit out of their countries.
Pictures of commie Eisenhower bowing are available here:
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/11/dwight-d-eisenhower-bowing-hour.html
It is a sign of weakness. Barack is clearly shaking in his shoes, terrified of what that old man and the lady in the kimono are going to do to him.
No, seriously, it is a sign of weakness. The fact that so many are discussing it shows just how fucked up our country has become.
I could only hope for a takedown notice, given the fact that the Imperial March is copyrighted. But then I remembered that Fox owns Star Wars. So I won’t hold my breath.
Gumboz1953: Drop that brush with the age of semaphore in strength. Burma Shave
No one’s pointed out that that’s one sweet houmongi Michiko is wearing. I’d bow to that anytime.
Oldskool: What a sweet mannerly man who doesn’t give a shit what right wingers think. Ironically, this gesture (that he knew every wingnut would spin) shows his mettle.
I thought protocol dictated that Merican presidents blow chunks on asian heads of state. Silly Obama.
(Blowin’ Chunks-Flipper Rules!)
Gumboz1953: No, it’s not. It’s a sign of respect. Respecting someone is not being weak, unless you’re a red state asshole.
No, no, no. Our Mercian presdent is not bowing to the emperor, he’s mooning Fox News!
June Cleaver 2.0: I concur. He heard the crazies and raised ‘em loooooong shot of his black ass.
America’s image in the eyes of the rest of the world is finally more important to our president than comments of the bitterly unhappy underemployed fatties who populate the comments sections of the LA Times blog. Thank Magog.
Please. Dubya gives head to every emir in the Gulf, and America is #1. Obama gives the emperor of Japan the minimum culturally appropriate level of respect, and the nation is disgraced.
Seriously, though, we should double check we didn’t accidentally cede them Guam or something.
Obama was just run down.
http://comicbooth.com/images/obama_rundown.jpg
I had to bow deeper than that when I met my Japanese grandmother-in-law for the first time. It was a sign of weakness.
Actually, for Kenyans bowing is a mark of strength, you ignorant teabaggers.
We’ll never get the Japanese to surrender unconditionally if Barry Hirohito Obama keeps bowing like that. CRYPTO SHINTOIST!
With the ca$h we owe them (second in line, just behind the Chinese) combined with the way they crushed Detroit while building Union-Made cars there domestically yet Non-Union in the southern USA (while treating us like a third-world assembler for their European market exports) I am suprised the President didn’t have to bend over facing the other way…
Didn’t the Bush dynasty president also bow down?
freakishlystrong: Yes. That’s one reason for living abroad.
QueenOfTheDamned: Going metric might actually help exports, if we have any. (Pork butts don’t count.)
Hooray For Anything: zhubajie: Yes, it would make sense in many ways. Thus, we must never, ever do it. I was writing materials to teach the maths to school children when the idea was floated in the ’80’s. Oy, the hullabaloo! And at this point in time, the fallout would be . . . well, it’s just so Socialist, don’t you know?
Guppy06: Replacing all bills with coins is a great idea. But only if we print “In Allah We Trust” way to the side. In Arabic and Japanese.