Author Topic: Obama bows to Tampa mayor (Read 6207 times)

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **on:** February 02, 2010, 04:08:04 AM »

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100128/480/b07861589f354ce698c3bf88b741d692/

Maybe he learned his manners from watching The Godfather. It's hard to say. He's a man of many strange quirks.

Standing Wolf · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2010, 06:08:58 AM »

Creepy!

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2010, 08:06:45 AM »

I don't think this administration does anything by accident.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #3 on:** February 02, 2010, 08:24:55 AM »

at the risk of defending him. its an asian thing i do it and i spent less time in asia than he did. it amuses older asian folk cause i do it automatically and they aren't used to seeing, what is to them is a redneck roundeye practicing obeisance. the fact that my dad went native and i was raised with both parents setting that example really ingrained it in me . its as deeply ingrained as a regional accent. perhaps moreso since failure as a child resulted in a lightening strike

Gowen · « **Reply #4 on:** February 02, 2010, 08:45:39 AM »

Ya'll got it wrong, it's the new humbler America. Even Time mag says he is the first post imperial President.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #5 on:** February 02, 2010, 09:01:41 AM »

Whats even weirder is the video. Its not really a bow so much as a really deep bob. It happens so fast that its nearly comical.

AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 02, 2010, 09:43:42 AM »

I think he deliberately intends to do it to every HOA board member and city councilman he meets to cover up his screw-ups with other heads of state.

I think the Japanese Emperor bow was to cover up for the Saudi one, which I genuinely think was a combination of closet-islam or ex-islam and "going with the flow" of other heads of state that bowed.

I still hold in my heart that the President of the United States bows to no one.

What we have is an eff-tard child in office with no grasp of the meaning of that office.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2010, 09:46:30 AM »

Maybe he was looking to see if she had his birth certificate in her hand?

It does smack of cover up for the Saudi bow, which smacked of inexperience.

longeyes · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2010, 12:05:32 PM »

Let him bow to US and remember who he works for.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2010, 02:18:33 PM »

Ah. The Asian angle makes sense.

Re: weird things about Obama, I'm watching the town hall he's having in Nashua. The people sitting behind him keep snapping pictures of the back of his head.

I don't know whether it's another case of staged cameras or just weird people.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 02, 2010, 02:25:56 PM »

Well, it is either all that, or he is falling for the "Your Shoes are Untied" joke way too much! :)

El Tejon · « **Reply #11 on:** February 02, 2010, 03:43:14 PM »

This is what Barry does. It's a habit.

There are plenty of photos of him bowing to people when he was Senator. (I remember one photo of him in the Ukraine with Lugar bowing to people).

I think he learned it at the madrassa and it just stuck with him.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #12 on:** February 02, 2010, 03:56:32 PM »

At least she's an American.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #13 on:** February 02, 2010, 04:00:09 PM »

Quote from: El Tejon on February 02, 2010, 03:43:14 PM

This is what Barry does. It's a habit.

There are plenty of photos of him bowing to people when he was Senator. (I remember one photo of him in the Ukraine with Lugar bowing to people).

I think he learned it at the madrassa and it just stuck with him.

you can pick it up living on airforce bases i learned on wake island. and oddly enough it was my irish dad who put the force in enforcement about it. all of the kids bow to ort elders or others we think of it as a sign of respect. my dad went totally native in japan the whole shoes thing as well

MechAg94 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 02, 2010, 04:32:51 PM »

How many civilians live on Wake Island? I thought it was pretty small.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #15 on:** February 02, 2010, 04:51:51 PM »

its very small i tried to run away from home there my first time. i think its less than 2000 acres and only a couple hundred folks live there. not sure there are any civilians there not dependents

coppertales · « **Reply #16 on:** February 03, 2010, 11:06:37 AM »

I landed at Wake Is on my way to the Vietnam thingie back in 67. There is not much there. When I looked out either side of the airplane after we landed, all I saw was water.....chris3

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #17 on:** February 03, 2010, 11:10:20 AM »

its mind boggling the guys that died over that chunk of sand. my kid sis was born there. regularly has to explain its status to folk who oughta know. like consular officials

El Tejon · « **Reply #18 on:** February 03, 2010, 11:36:45 AM »

Obama did not learn it on an air base.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #19 on:** February 03, 2010, 11:41:16 AM »

he was born in kapiolani. plenty of non round eyed folks in that hood

El Tejon · « **Reply #20 on:** February 03, 2010, 11:45:41 AM »

Hmmm, you may be right. Something that he copied from his youth?

I know it's a habit. I've seen him bow to people he has just met when he was just a state senator.

longeyes · « **Reply #21 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:10:38 PM »

Where he learned it is irrelevant; what it says about his concept of social relations--and their political implications--is what matters.

sanglant · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2010, 02:26:33 PM »

Quote from: JamisJockey on February 02, 2010, 09:01:41 AM

Whats even weirder is the video. Its not really a bow so much as a really deep bob. It happens so fast that its nearly comical.

ah, he thought she was going to take a swing at him

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #23 on:** February 03, 2010, 03:43:09 PM »

Quote from: longeyes on February 03, 2010, 01:10:38 PM

Where he learned it is irrelevant; what it says about his concept of social relations--and their political implications--is what matters.

Indeed. It may be a "habit" but, he is the (cough) leader of the free world and should be able to exercise a modicum of self control, such as, not picking his nose or scratching his arse in public.

roo_ster · « **Reply #24 on:** February 03, 2010, 04:39:54 PM »

Quote from: Sergeant Bob on February 03, 2010, 03:43:09 PM

Indeed. It may be a "habit" but, he is the (cough) leader of the free world and should be able to exercise a modicum of self control, such as, not picking his nose or scratching his arse in public.

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