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When's he gonna bow to us?
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That's leadership.
The President?
The dispassion, the self-reverence, the blindness of the man, are marvelous to behold, and so perfectly reflect the president he so perfectly serves. “Neutral and detached” people shall “understand the reasons why” he made those decisions, shall see he has left “the politics out of it,” and shall recognize what’s right--something the rest of us, benighted and bellicose souls that we are, have never managed to do with respect to the disposition of those committing mass murders of Americans in their ongoing war against our civilization.
Nah. Eric Holder. Neutral and Detached.
Jake Tapper: What Happens if a 9/11 Terrorist is Acquitted? We take up Boofocracy with the rest of the "idealists", that's what.
"Bad is good. Quagmire is progress. And jobs destroyed are jobs 'created or saved.'” When Will the King of Curtsy Quit Lying About the Stimulus?
First Things First: Don't Let the Curtsy King Steal Your Freedoms and Betray You with a Kiss
Acorn: Once on the Federal Dole, Always on the Federal Dole
Stumble Bum-in-Chief
Hate to say this but the bow in Japan was probably a good move on Obama's part. With that gesture he won over the whole nation forever. He could drop kick a rice bowl over the moat and into the imperial palace and they would say, "Aw he's just practicing his field goal kicking." From here on our Obama can do no wrong for the Japanese. Bowing deeply in Japan is a sign of deep respect. For an American president to show respect in this way to a Japanses president is cosidered wonderful in Japan.
You simply cannot look at bowing the way westerners do and apply it to Japan. It is a whole other deal there. We totally misinterpret this.
Posted by: Das | 11/15/2009 at 08:36 AM
It's the only way I could get you to post?
Actually, I know you're right. I just couldn't shuck the irresistable impulse to say "Curtsy King." Had to get it out of my head, see.
Posted by: Irish Cicero | 11/15/2009 at 11:16 AM
I do post actually but for some reason typepad was eating my posts...sems to be fixed now...anyhoo...Japanese are very different from us especially in this bowing thing
Posted by: Das | 11/15/2009 at 11:21 AM
I know that about the bowing. Didn't know that about the posts.
I'm posting via Firefox now. Seem to be getting a cleaner post, but don't know for sure.
Modem's going off now. Got stuff to do!
Posted by: Irish Cicero | 11/15/2009 at 11:23 AM
In re your new format, Firefox etc. - it's much cleaner and faster, which I like. FWIW, I'm viewing it on Firefox as well.
As far as the bowing thing goes, it's not about "courtesy," it's about protocol. While I'm sure many Japanese are ecstatic about a foreign nation's "leader" showing obeisance to their emperor, it's certainly not a good precedent for the United States.
Posted by: Rob De Witt | 11/15/2009 at 04:59 PM
All I know is Vanderleun grimaced when he heard I was using IE. Apparently there's some little code thingie you can use to cancel IE's bloated off-side hinkyness. Whatever. I've sidestepped the problem. I'm tickled it's loading faster. I may go ahead and take out other widgets.
Posted by: Irish Cicero | 11/15/2009 at 05:12 PM
The other thing I've been doing this weekend is moving through the old posts since May . . . . reposting many.
I'm NOT reposting pictures. They're all in Anti-Kenny popup mode.
Posted by: Irish Cicero | 11/15/2009 at 05:17 PM