Somebody Explain THIS to me:
"Snub the Brits, lick the boots of despots" seems to be the sum of BHO's "Smart Diplomacy."
What's wrong with this picture? Americans do not bow to royalty. In my view, when the royal is the ruling tyrant of a despotic regime, the wrong is compounded. Putting aside the breach of American protocol, it is akin to Jimmy Carter succumbing to Brezhnev's infamous kiss at the signing of the arms accord in Vienna in 1979. It is a disgrace. As in Carter's case, Obama's supplicant attitude signifies his spirit. In this respect I distinguish it from George Bush's otherwise embarrasing handholding with the the king.
Yep, as much as I am partial to the Brits and admire their queen's character*, this small-r republican would no more bow to her than I would set my hair on fire and beat it out with a golf shoe.