Chairman Bow Visits Japan

By Wyatt Earp | November 22, 2009

By now, you have all heard about President Obama’s embarrassing bow to the Japanese Emperor last weekend. The faux pas made national headlines, and pundits on both sides of the political aisle criticized the maneuver as amateurish and submissive. Personally, I thought the bow was hysterical, and gave credence to the notion that the president is ignorant of all matters diplomatic.

Anyway, the story is the focus of this week’s Family Security Matters article. Here’s a snippet:

One of the most common complaints about President Obama is that he spends more time apologizing for America than standing up for it. The man gives off the impression that America is no better, and in fact, somewhat worse than, the other countries of the world. The term “American exceptionalism” cannot be found in the president’s mental dictionary, because he believes in that about as much as he believes in unicorns, leprechauns, and tax-cutting Democrats. Besides, it is difficult to explain American exceptionalism when you are always face-to-waist with other world leaders, a position Barack Obama found himself in last weekend when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito:

Obama on Monday was in China, having wrapped up the Japan leg of his Asia trip two days earlier. But Washington’s punditocracy was still weighing whether or not the US president had disgraced his country two days earlier by having taken a deep bow at the waist while meeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito.

Calling the calisthenics that President Obama performed, a “deep bow,” is like calling Jessica Simpson “a little dim.”

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