April 2, 2009
Obama bows down to Saudi King (updated)
I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a President of the United States. See also: With bowed head and bended knee Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king? Drip, drip, drip -- the MSM coverup of the Presidential bow before the financier of radical Islam Obama doubles down on the bow to the Saudi King ![]() Update (for the doubters who claim this was not a bow). Here is a video of the unmistakable bow: (hat tip: Michelle Malkin) Update: See Miss Manners on the protocol. Americans do not bow to foreign monarchs because that act signified the monarch's power over his subjects. Here is the protocol from the Queen of England's website -- which applies even to her own subjects:
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