Obama’s botched bow – American Thinker
November 14, 2009
Obama’s botched bow
Thomas Lifson
Bad enough that Obama bowed down to another head of state yesterday. Even worse, he did not bother to learn how one bows in Japan, and just winged it.
I agree with Scott Johnson, Steve Gilbert, Andrew Malcom, and many others that the President of the United States should not be bowing before any head of state. But unlike these astute observers, I actually know a little something about the art of the bow in Japan, having lived in Japan four different times on a resident visa, taught East Asian Studies at Harvard, and counseled many hundreds of American, European, Middle Eastern, and Australian executives on how to work and negotiate with the Japanese — including teaching them the right way to bow.
Obama’s bow (below) violates a fundamental precept: NO TOUCHING while bowing.
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Did you live in Japan?
When were you here?
Is Obama’s bow controversial in America?
Though his bow is wrong, I think most Japanese respect him for trying.
http://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/tara-chan/
His bowing to show humility is humiliating to America. It is as false as he is. You notice the Japanese aren’t bowing to him!
Obama hates American conservatives, and labels them as potential domestic terrorists. But he bows to foreign kings, and mirandizes jihadis. Welcome to Obamaland!
Notice how Obama bows to Monarchs of third world nations but doesn’t bow to Queen Elizabeth, this shows who he thinks he is superior to and who he thinks he is inferior to.
Since obamas soooo good at apologizing for the U.S. Maybe he can apologize for himself, He couldnt take five minutes to learn a proper greeting of such importance?