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A chinese client made fun of me today by saying "I bow to you like Obama, haha"

so I guess it is not seen as a huge victory for American prestige all over the world

your take? + 0r -

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I think your over exaggerating as usual tongue. If it was Bush he would be "doing
your country a service by respecting your allies' traditions".

Instead, because its Obama, you have to be negative.




Sorry but it just doesn't cut the cheese...

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I have some Chinese connections, Same story. They have also been making fun of him and his rediculous bow.

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Wait...you guys are talking about the bow to the Japanese emporer right?

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anyone have a video of it?

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

He also bowed in China and South Korea on the same trip. I don't have any Japanese or Korean connections though.

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we conquered japan, when the American president visits Japan, the American president shoudlnt bow; the Japanese emperor should be giving the American President a BJ....

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> Petrolstone wrote:

> He also bowed in China and South Korea on the same trip. I don't have any Japanese or Korean connections though.


so you think your Chinese connections are jealous that the japanese emperor got a lower bow then their country's leader? sounds like they thought the bow to the japanese emperor was ridiculous...

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did he bow before his rightful sovereign her majesty of england?! X(

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What exactly did he achieve I wonder? Although there might be some progress behind the screens, I.m.o. very little. OK it is very difficult and the odds are against him in this one, but failing again after everything else this president has done is a crying shame.

I'm still waiting for the first big positive thing after he got elected. Right now he mostly failed with a few small victories.

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http://nwasianweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/28_48/editorial.jpg

1. the President as a head of state doesn't make obeisance gestures to other heads of state, Clinton got his knuckles rapped by the NY Times in 1994 for dipping his head to Akihito
2. if you ARE gonna bow to the Emperor of Japan, do it before you shake his hand, not DURING the handshake
3. why did he bow to King Abdullah, bow to Emperor Akihito, and just nod to Queen Elizabeth?

"Instead, because its Obama, you have to be negative."

I don't remember Reagan's etiquette that well, Bush the Elder remembered WW2 too well to bow to Hirohito (well pretty well, he once memorialized Pearl Harbor on September 7)--I guess Hirohito was just glad not to be barfed on, and Bush the Younger would probably have given Akihito a backrub before he'd genuflect.  So I don't really have that many models of rightwing presidents I can react to


"Sorry but it just doesn't cut the cheese..."

I have no idea what you meant by that, in America "cut the cheese" = "break wind"

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How did you get the idea that your Chinese clients are making fun of Obama?

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

o_O

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He'd better bow to the Queen when they meet, or he'll be hanged like the pauper peasant that he is.

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

don't ppl know anything about proper protocols for foreign leaders visiting other heads of state?

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yes, that's why I'm upset when Obama breaks them

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Oh I can't read...

"A chinese client made fun of me today by saying "I bow to you like Obama, haha""

Why did you think he was making fun of you?

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tongue

it was part of a conversation, he thanked me for doing the chores on his case, then he bowed to me like Obama and laughed, then I said "lay off, no fair" he laughed, and then I  said I noticed that China treated Obama really coldly when he went there after he visited Japan, and he said China still hates the Japanese for being murderous racist bastards and so Obama didn't score points with them being a clumsy buttkisser in Japan-i'm paraphrasing his terms

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How is bowing to the emperor a breech of protocol? o.O

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

as they bow to our president when they come here, so stfu... and stop breeding hate.

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lol@ all of this

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Its because he is black!

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

Damn Nolio!

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

Who bows to a US president? I think some guys nod while shaking hands

The President as head of state = another head of state so submission to another head of state by a head of state either means A) the united states bows to Japan or B) our President is  noob.

it's probably B) because he was still in the middle of a handshake so it wasn't even a proper Japanese bow, it was an Obama.


and I remind you all again Tupac said "You the row won't bow down to no man"

/me bows to Nolio like Obama

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Re: President Obama Bows to Monarchs

it is a sign that they respect the office that the other holds. and if you look back in time you will see that most leaders have bowed to others on they're sovereign land, thatsa why the truce was signed on a battleship... in WW2

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