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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (62444)4/2/2009 9:55:28 PM
From: lorne4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 224751
 
Ken..how about this. Barrak hussein obama will have to stoop a lot lower to get within range of iran's ama gina dad's butt...short little piece of crap.... however I believe obama...being a bit tall... will overcome this problem in his quest to please the moslum world.

Obama bows to Saudi king
Greeting called 'most unbecoming for president of the United States'
April 02, 2009
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
wnd.com

President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.

"I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States," writes Clarice Feldman in an American Thinker commentary.

The situation developed as leaders of the world attending the G20 summit in London assembled for a photograph to mark the event.

In this first image, after the king extended his hand while Obama approached, Obama bends from the waist until his head is nearly at the monarch's waist:

In a second image, Obama has straightened up and is exchanging remarks with the Saudi leader:

Video by a television crew was posted on YouTube. The bow comes at about 50 seconds into the video:

youtube.com

The action appeared especially awkward since among the dozens of world leaders and their spouses, handshakes abounded, but there appeared to be no other bowing in the room.

The U.S. State Department's office of protocol did not respond to a WND request for the proper etiquette for two heads of state meeting, but the online Travel Etiquette website for Saudi Arabia said handshakes are common greetings between members of the same sex.
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