ZDL
04-10-09, 03:21
Because this will inevitably only last about 3 pages.... I wanted to post this interesting and well written rant I found on another forum. For the love of God I only wanted to share a well written piece. You can agree with it or not but you have to admit... it's passionate. I'm not commenting to the accuracy, fairness, or validity of it. People who plan on jumping off the f-ing deep end. Don't. Enough disclaimers.
In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign monarch, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week.
He not only looked like, but also presented himself to the Saudi King in the same manner like the fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.
Or worse, much like a slave would to his Master.
I though we were past the whole Master/slave thing.
Mr. Obama later said in Strasbourg, France, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." Symbolism is important in world affairs. By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States.
You can see the video here:
Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JGK-xbXxMw&feature=related
The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is traditionally the obedience or submissiveness of a king's subjects not his peer.
I think it is even more abhorrent of 'President'' Obama to bow to and apparently even kiss King Abdullah's ring; considering 4 years ago, September 2005, the LA Times reported that the Saudi King had ordered his citizens not to kiss his hand, saying the traditional gesture of respect is degrading and violates Islam.
The Saudi King stated, and I quote "Kissing hands is alien to our values and morals, and is not accepted by free and noble souls," Abdullah told a delegation from Baha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, which came to the royal palace to offer congratulations on his accession. "It also leads to bowing, which is a violation of God’s law. The faithful bow to no one but God."
You got that Obama, not only did you offend all real Americans, you also offended Allah, and even the Saudi King as well by prostrating yourself to a foreign monarch like a submissive does to his Dominatrix.
There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals.
Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt shook hands with Saudi King Abdulaziz in February 1945. Granted, Mr. Roosevelt was wheelchair-bound, but former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shook hands and looked him straight in the eye when he first met King Saud in January 1957.
Mr. Obama's bow to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and to whom many consider the unofficial leader of Islam, does not help his image with those who believe (right or wrong) that Obama is secretly a Muslim.
Not to mention, exactly why did 'President' Barack Hussein Obama choose to bow only to the Saudi King and not to any other royals. That question still remains unexplained.
No American is ever required to bow to royalty. It is one of the pillars of American exceptionalism that our country rejected traditional caste divisions.
Article I Section 9 of the Constitution forbids titles of nobility and stipulates that no officeholder or government employee may "accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state" without the consent of Congress.
Judith Martin wrote in her Miss Manners column in 2001 that bowing "is not an ordinary bit of foreign etiquette one might adopt out of courtesy when traveling. ... Americans do not properly bow to any royalty. We show respect for other countries' leaders the same way we do to our own."
It seems most of the MSM press outlets have been conspicuously silent on Mr. Obama's bowing and prostrating himself, and by extension prostrating the American People, to the Muslim King of a foreign country.
Compare this to the New York Times' reaction when former President Bill Clinton inclined a bit too far when meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito in 1994. "The image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent president, and the Emperor of Japan."
The NY Times Link is here, Link http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/weekinreview/the-world-the-president-s-inclination-no-it-wasn-t-a-bow-bow.html
Former President Bush received thorough press attention after being photographed holding hands with then-Crown Prince Abdullah in 2005. "It clearly strikes a nerve," CBS News reported, while David Letterman satirized Mr. Bush as "officially the gayest president since Lincoln."
These two cases were tame compared to Mr. Obama's full-out genuflection, which makes me have to wonder why it is not worthy of any comment by the MSM, Letterman, Leno, or anyone else.
Mr. Obama has once again proven that one can be elected (selected?) president without knowing how to behave or conduct himself as a president.
His servile and submissive gesture was fully fitting with the tone of HIS (not America's) humility tour of Europe.
In his eagerness to be loved personally by everyone else in the world (except by his own countrymen), Obama, has lost sight of the fact that the leader of the free world also must be respected. If he ever was aware of that fact in the first place.
Which personally, I highly doubt. Since he obviously doesn't care about respect either to or from the American Citizen.
Mr. President, if you choose to bow to anyone, at least have the respect for this country to do so AFTER you are no longer President of the United States of America.
When you prostrate yourself like a cheap tramp to her pimp, you not only disgrace yourself, but the rest of America as well. No American I know of would bow to King Abdullah or anyone else.
And in probably one of the ONLY things I could ever agree with Saudi King Abdullah on, I bow to but God Almighty Himself, and not to any man that walks the face of this earth.
In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign monarch, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week.
He not only looked like, but also presented himself to the Saudi King in the same manner like the fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.
Or worse, much like a slave would to his Master.
I though we were past the whole Master/slave thing.
Mr. Obama later said in Strasbourg, France, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." Symbolism is important in world affairs. By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States.
You can see the video here:
Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JGK-xbXxMw&feature=related
The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is traditionally the obedience or submissiveness of a king's subjects not his peer.
I think it is even more abhorrent of 'President'' Obama to bow to and apparently even kiss King Abdullah's ring; considering 4 years ago, September 2005, the LA Times reported that the Saudi King had ordered his citizens not to kiss his hand, saying the traditional gesture of respect is degrading and violates Islam.
The Saudi King stated, and I quote "Kissing hands is alien to our values and morals, and is not accepted by free and noble souls," Abdullah told a delegation from Baha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, which came to the royal palace to offer congratulations on his accession. "It also leads to bowing, which is a violation of God’s law. The faithful bow to no one but God."
You got that Obama, not only did you offend all real Americans, you also offended Allah, and even the Saudi King as well by prostrating yourself to a foreign monarch like a submissive does to his Dominatrix.
There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals.
Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt shook hands with Saudi King Abdulaziz in February 1945. Granted, Mr. Roosevelt was wheelchair-bound, but former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shook hands and looked him straight in the eye when he first met King Saud in January 1957.
Mr. Obama's bow to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and to whom many consider the unofficial leader of Islam, does not help his image with those who believe (right or wrong) that Obama is secretly a Muslim.
Not to mention, exactly why did 'President' Barack Hussein Obama choose to bow only to the Saudi King and not to any other royals. That question still remains unexplained.
No American is ever required to bow to royalty. It is one of the pillars of American exceptionalism that our country rejected traditional caste divisions.
Article I Section 9 of the Constitution forbids titles of nobility and stipulates that no officeholder or government employee may "accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state" without the consent of Congress.
Judith Martin wrote in her Miss Manners column in 2001 that bowing "is not an ordinary bit of foreign etiquette one might adopt out of courtesy when traveling. ... Americans do not properly bow to any royalty. We show respect for other countries' leaders the same way we do to our own."
It seems most of the MSM press outlets have been conspicuously silent on Mr. Obama's bowing and prostrating himself, and by extension prostrating the American People, to the Muslim King of a foreign country.
Compare this to the New York Times' reaction when former President Bill Clinton inclined a bit too far when meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito in 1994. "The image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent president, and the Emperor of Japan."
The NY Times Link is here, Link http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/weekinreview/the-world-the-president-s-inclination-no-it-wasn-t-a-bow-bow.html
Former President Bush received thorough press attention after being photographed holding hands with then-Crown Prince Abdullah in 2005. "It clearly strikes a nerve," CBS News reported, while David Letterman satirized Mr. Bush as "officially the gayest president since Lincoln."
These two cases were tame compared to Mr. Obama's full-out genuflection, which makes me have to wonder why it is not worthy of any comment by the MSM, Letterman, Leno, or anyone else.
Mr. Obama has once again proven that one can be elected (selected?) president without knowing how to behave or conduct himself as a president.
His servile and submissive gesture was fully fitting with the tone of HIS (not America's) humility tour of Europe.
In his eagerness to be loved personally by everyone else in the world (except by his own countrymen), Obama, has lost sight of the fact that the leader of the free world also must be respected. If he ever was aware of that fact in the first place.
Which personally, I highly doubt. Since he obviously doesn't care about respect either to or from the American Citizen.
Mr. President, if you choose to bow to anyone, at least have the respect for this country to do so AFTER you are no longer President of the United States of America.
When you prostrate yourself like a cheap tramp to her pimp, you not only disgrace yourself, but the rest of America as well. No American I know of would bow to King Abdullah or anyone else.
And in probably one of the ONLY things I could ever agree with Saudi King Abdullah on, I bow to but God Almighty Himself, and not to any man that walks the face of this earth.