Alchemy Today: Obama’s Bow Is Bush’s Bow?
Doubting Thomas
· 8 months ago
Gee. He's looking down at a medal that the king gave him. Oh the horror, oh the indignity and shame of it all. Certainly this is the moral equivalent of Obama bowing low to the king!
alchemytoday
· 8 months ago
Because accepting a medal from a king as you bow your head in a ceremony is somehow different from ceremonially bowing when you meet him? Either way, you're showing deference to a monarch. Unless you're worried that Obama is really revealing his secret allegiance in which case you're nuts.
Yes! Because bowing your head to accept a medal is COMPLETELY different from an almost horizontal, bent at the waist bow! That you see the two as the same really shows your flawed thinking and perceptions. But that's the problem with all liberals: they refuse to acknowledge the facts before them and instead resort to subterfuge, name-calling, fabrication, and many other tactics that are, quite frankly, embarrassing to witness.
alchemytoday
· 8 months ago
They aren't precisely the same. One was a greeting and the other was part of a ceremony in which the awardee stand rigidly, hands at his sides, before bending forward to accept an award (implicitly recognizing the judgment of the person giving the award and showing gratitude in accepting it), and adoringly shaking hands and kissing the king. Kissing not as a greeting, but as a display of fealty that's part of the ceremony. Despite that, unless Bush whispered in King Abdullah's ear that we're going to arm Saudi Arabia w/ nuclear weapons at the same time, I really don't give a damn. Both Obama's bow (and of course he bowed) and Bush's ceremony mean precisely zero; I suppose they both help firm up King Abdullah's reputation in Saudi Arabia to some extent, but that effect is marginal.
As far as not acknowledging the facts goes, I guess the folks I saw do this over the past two weeks are liberals: say that lowering taxes raises revenues (always), that Sarah Palin and George W. Bush are intelligent (and that Glenn Beck makes some good points), that people will choose to pay higher taxes given two options, that there are two sides to the evolution "debate", that even if global warming is as bad as predicted, the consequences that will last over millennia are lower than the cost of reducing emissions over the next century, that the stock market inevitably declines when it appears that the Democrats will get their way, that Banquo's Ghosts is a real page-turner, that it's remotely possible that a federal anti-gay-marriage amendment could ever be ratified, that Obama will likely abolish the dollar in lieu of a global currency, and that he will also create reeducation camps for our youth, that Norm Coleman has any possible recourse in either the MN or US Supreme Courts, that ACORN is something to fear, that George Soros singlehandedly brought down the economy for his own benefit, that a secretive liberal cabal utilizes and e-mail list to set the national liberal agenda... these are all positions taken by mainstream Republicans in Congress, on broadcast television and radio, and in the pages of the journals of the conservative intelligentsia.
But yes, you're right that it's a bit of denial to claim that Obama didn't bow, or that Bush did precisely the same as Obama. However, I said "bowing to Abdullah as he's given a medal," which is entirely accurate.
Vermont_Neighbor
· 8 months ago
Obama's bow was totally ignored by the main scream media. Remember, they crow when this guy does the most ordinary, mundane thing and cover when he fouls up the joint. Their cheerleading can't be denied.
Along with the submissive bow is that $900 Million going to Gaza and Hamas. You question his priorities? Still?
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If you could make an argument as to how Obama's bow is less ridiculous than Bush's Saudi sword dance, have at it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bC_QA2HOo
As far as not acknowledging the facts goes, I guess the folks I saw do this over the past two weeks are liberals: say that lowering taxes raises revenues (always), that Sarah Palin and George W. Bush are intelligent (and that Glenn Beck makes some good points), that people will choose to pay higher taxes given two options, that there are two sides to the evolution "debate", that even if global warming is as bad as predicted, the consequences that will last over millennia are lower than the cost of reducing emissions over the next century, that the stock market inevitably declines when it appears that the Democrats will get their way, that Banquo's Ghosts is a real page-turner, that it's remotely possible that a federal anti-gay-marriage amendment could ever be ratified, that Obama will likely abolish the dollar in lieu of a global currency, and that he will also create reeducation camps for our youth, that Norm Coleman has any possible recourse in either the MN or US Supreme Courts, that ACORN is something to fear, that George Soros singlehandedly brought down the economy for his own benefit, that a secretive liberal cabal utilizes and e-mail list to set the national liberal agenda... these are all positions taken by mainstream Republicans in Congress, on broadcast television and radio, and in the pages of the journals of the conservative intelligentsia.
But yes, you're right that it's a bit of denial to claim that Obama didn't bow, or that Bush did precisely the same as Obama. However, I said "bowing to Abdullah as he's given a medal," which is entirely accurate.
Along with the submissive bow is that $900 Million going to Gaza and Hamas. You question his priorities? Still?