Video: Obama’s deep bow to the Saudi king
I have expressed my disgust many times over the years with the Bush administration’s kowtowing to Saudi Arabia. That notorious image of Bush holding hands with Saudi royalty in 2005 and doing sword dances with Wahabbists in 2008 sparked outrage on both the left and the right. The hand-holding has gotten us nowhere — and in fact, has made us less secure.
So I hope all the lefties who tore into Bush over his Saudi prostration will express equal disgust with President HopeAndChange’s literal bowing and scraping to King Abdullah. When JWF sent a link to the photo with Obama bent down like a serf (further than either he or Michelle dipped for Queen Elizabeth, by the way), I tried to give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he dropped a contact lens or penny?
But no, here’s the video. Warning: Emetic alert!
Bleccch.
Is this diplomatic protocol?
And if so, when did diplomatic protocol start mattering to Obama, anyway?!
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Har. Doug Powers figured it out:
My theory is that the president was only somewhat stooped over because he was trying to show King Abdullah what was on the iPod he brought over for him as a present.
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Wow! That is quite a wealth of information! I started to read, but there is too much in there to get through in one night. Thanks for the reference…I hope it fills in some of the gaps for me.
Basically we’re slumming it. In 6 short months America has gone from Texas Oil Baron to ‘white trash with money’ or rather ‘ghetto fabulous’.
Its like ‘Showtime at the Apollo’ has gone global – only no one is brave enough to pull him off the stage.
Send this out on your email lists. Submit it to Drudge and any other media outlet you can. Flood their mailboxes so they have to show it.
Since when does the President of United States bow to a king from another country especially a Saudi King? Watch the video and you will see him do it the
51 second mark. He sure doesn’t bow to Queen Elizabeth later in the video. The President of my country is NOT to bow to anyone! Period!
My guess is that muslim Obama was enthused to be meeting muslim royalty. Name one thing about the anglo-saxon, western civ world that he admires, adores or supports? He’s either an atheist like most leftists or a closet muslim. Either way he’s the worst president America has ever had. He’s a republic killer.
How does a Saudi King hold his liquor?
Answer: By the ears!
No King but Jesus:
This poseur in chief has chosen his king.
As much as a globe-trotter BO was in his younger days, there’s no telling if he ISN’T a subject of the King of Saudi Arabia. Can ANYONE tell me with all certainty WHAT BO’s citizenship is?
If this weren’t really happening, I’d swear that it was all a nightmare, and I’d just need to wake up in order to be in America once again. The utter stupidity of it all, and the fact that so few in the media GET IT is infuriating. How long are these people going to continue making excuses for this freaking clown?
Hey…weren’t there a whole bunch of Obama apologists on here the other day claiming that Obama is a Head of State and MichelleO was an American Citizen and thus they were not required to bow to the royals in Great Britain and all that other crud? You remember…they were experts in the protocol given to the Queen of England as well as the proper gifts and such to the point that they should have been instructing the Brits themselves to just “get over it” and stop being upset at the slap in the face Obama keeps giving Great Britain.
Well, apparently the same thing does not apply when meeting with his Islamic Overlords. Holy COW!!!! He doesn’t give MichelleO and her children that much “respect”.
And after listening to all the Liberals carry on and on ad nauseum for 8 plus years about how Bush was so chummy chummy with the Saudis, to have actually seen this buffoon fall all over himself like this…OH I am just so glad that the pictures were released. At some point in the near future, when the MSM is no longer covering up for him, these will play very well.
I know all this has more than likely been already stated or at least pointed out, but I just could not contain myself, and just had to add my disgust with his buffoonery.
Hey Obama…didn’t you know that it wasn’t Iraqis that bombed us on 9-11 but Saudis? Sorry…my Lib-speak is rusty.
And speaking of Lib-speak, looks like one of our little trolls here decided to spread some SERIOUS lies about what we were talking about the other day concerning my desire to purchase a Win. 30/30 for protection. You guys are gonna love this little posting they have over at Kos where they describe me and a few others and threatening the life of the President from here. It is some of the funniest, paranoid, idiocy on that site to date. Don’t let the libel fool you. Check it out.
Obama shows his backside to the West.
Can’t help but notice that not one single person other than MacBeth bowed to the House of Saud. Anyone else? No? Gee. Maybe he will get a new prayer rug out of it.
#204,
LMAOROTF!
One MUSLIM showing respect towards another MUSLIM… Go Figure.
RetFireman, thanks for the link. Still laughing at the liberal hysteria over at kos. They would love to yank any speech that does not agree with theirs and will take anything out of context to justify it. After the Muslims get enough people in this country, they are going to go after the liberal’s freedoms. Since libs are cowards, they will sit back and take it, justify it, stop people like us from fighting it, then at least liberals will be quiet. That will be the only good thing out of it.
“Deep bow…”
What else would you expect? He’s a freaking muslim. I doubt he’d give the Pope as much respect.
May be some truth to that…we do know he’s had practice in the past.
Doubt he’d bend over for a penny, unless it was your last one.
My theory is he’ll go to great lengths to avoid the pontiff.
I’ve got another theory….
Maybe Obama thought there was a midget hiding under the King’s robe and he just wanted to be polite and say hello eye to eye.
Didn’t I see that scene in The Passion Of The Christ?
Ret,
WRT #207, You know I deeply dislike you (and vice versa) but let me assure you that I had nothing to do with that, nor would I do something like that to any poster here I don’t read Kos.
How did you happen upon it?
RetFireman: You are honored but the kos drones hate. It shows you have done something right. BTW the weapon used on JFK was an itialian POS. Not even a 30-30 but hell the kos-drones are cluesless so whatever.
but = by.
NEED. MORE. CAFFINE.
zzz
Honestly, I’m more concerned about the 663,000 Americans who have joined the legions of the unemployed. Let’s stop kidding ourselves. The depression is here.
corona:
Didn’t you hear? obama fixed that. You must be a right wing hater and racist to say otherwise.
I do not believe Obama is a Muslim. He was obviously raised a Muslim, his mother only married Muslim men, his step-father took him to Friday prayers in Indonesia according to his half-sister, and he apparently can say the Muezzin’s call to prayer in perfectly accented Arabic.
But everything suggests that since his mother dumped him on his grandparents, and his grandfather decided Obama needed a Black role model, and chose his drinking buddy (per Obama’s autobiography) and proud Communist Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s influences, mentors and role models have all been communists. Communists tend to be atheists. Now, as seen with people like Edward Said, communists feel an affinity to Muslims, because they share a common enemy, and it suits Obama’s purposes to be seen in the Muslim community as a co-religionist.
But it is a cynical ploy, sure to be played up in the Muslim world, while the protective main-stream media will bury it in the United States.
Yes, as a former Muslim, other Muslims might consider Obama either a Muslim or an apostate, but he is either an agnostic or an atheist, like his role models Davis, Dohrn, Ayers, Marx and Mao.
BTW, just a little trivia. Everyone gets hung up on the Arabic “Hussein” in the middle, but ‘Barack’ is just the Arabic version of the Hebrew name ‘Baruch’.
RetFireman… that’s some pretty over the top stuff over at the Daily $%^# Pile. Glad to see they are in a breathless clueless dither. They think any mention of a weapon for personal defense is a threat to their Lord and Ruler. Maroons…
sonofdy… on the 30/30, that’s what I thought.
Those kos kids are certainly a few fries short of a happy meal. How can they interpret someone exercising their second amendment rights as a threat against the President is crazy?
BTW requests for gun permits have exploded in my little bedroom community. Everyone thinks the 2nd amendment could be threatened.
Which I was a firearms dealer. I’d be loving the Bamster right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_rifle
6.5mm
sonofdy,
Kos kids will view that post as threat. They are that stupid.
F ‘em
sonofly,
That’s the spirit.
Wish (typo)
Young Skywalker makes obeisance to the emperor.
The video is a bit deceiving..
Truth be told.. Obama is bending over BACKWARDS….and in the end, the America Citizens will be bent over forwards… “I hear Barney Frank Approves!!!!!”
I particularly enjoyed the breathless, “Someobody should call the FBI” cries. They hypocrisy of that statement alone, especially when you can scan through their comments at any time to find any number of actual OVERT threats towards Bush, Cheney, Palin, Limbaugh…even our own dear host…is simply amazing.
As if anyone here would ever say anything of that nature. Yet my blog is still getting hits from the high schoolers over there, and will probably get more once Easter Break hits and they can spend more time on mommy’s computer.
As I mention, I would welcome any Law Enforcement member with a warm cup of coffee and all the hospitality a law abiding citizen could offer. Considering the rate at which the Obama Administration is sending out the U.S. Marshall’s Office to anyone who speaks out against Der Fuhrer these days, it would not surprise me. I just hope they send someone I know personally already. It would save time and make the visit all the more funny and enjoyable.
And Chap…it is too bad you waste so much energy at all in any opinion of me, for I waste none on you. Trust me.
Oh believe me, you make it very easy to dislike you. No effort at all, really. But thanks for your concern.
I agree with you Ed. BO doesn’t believe in anything but himself. He’s just a naive little boy with aspirations of being the most important person that has ever lived. I believe that he’s living out his life as though the whole of 6000+ years of recorded history was simply leading up to HIS advent. Mohammad and Jesus were mere players in that act of history leading up to “the One.”
Maybe O-BOZO should read up on history… JOHN ADAMS, after the REVOLUTION, met with the KING OF ENGLAND… He did not BOW to him… HOW DISGUSTING… HOW DEGRADING, to the office of THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!
Evil often dislikes good
There you go Granite. I read that as an accusing me of accusing you of accusing our POTUS of being a Muslim.
Now, please quit playing games.
Bye.
What happened to not wasting any energy in an opinion of me? I imagine the stupid ones are even more taxing to your little brain.
I agree with those who say that Obama is essentially irreligious. He embraced Christianity only when he needed Trinity United Church Of Christ as an entree to Chicago political society. By his own statements, he never listened to the teachings there.
Obama made obeisance to the king of Saudi Arabia for the same reason – he wants in the club. Sickening and shabby, as have been his previous affiliations, and unbecoming an American president – but then, Obama pretty clearly wants to dissolve national identities.
Here’s some HOPE – the 2010 elections are just 19 months from now!
Why is this story not on Drudge yet?
RetFireman:
I went over and read the comments over at Kos.
Look, the far-left has thier loons too, but they also have sensible people, behold (3 comments):
…also, the 30/30 => Osawld thing is just too funny. They don’t know much about weapons. Reminds me of that story (was it on this site?) where that old lady in Iraq(?) was holding up UNSPENT ammo and claiming it was shot at her house by US soldiers. LOL!
No games.
Not my problem if you’re reading it wrong;
not my problem if you’re inferring something that you don’t like, that was not implied, but that you want to think was implied;
not my problem that reading a list of facts bothers you.
That’s your problem.
Deal with it.
In the end it doesn’t matter does it? Interpretation and tone gets f’d up in print, partcularly on political blogs. At this point I offer you a big ole’ fat WHUDEVAH!!!
Hooray Barack Hussein Obama!!!
Hooray Tar Heels!!!
Hooray never posting on this thread again!!!
Peace out granite.
Daffy wingnut…it has a ring to it! I rather like it. Wingnuts vs moonbats. Ha!
I thought I told you to go sit in the car.
Now shut up, libturd.
HAHA
Shoulda kneed the b@$tard in the face!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.cm
Somebody please photoshop a “KICK ME” sign on Obama’s backside.
This will be a great ad for the GOP during the next elections…if we survive what is coming in the next terrorist act (or man-made disaster)…even Jon Stewart is making fun of not calling a terrorist a terroist. I’ll go further: Radical Islamic Terrorists caused 9/11 (until Swedish Lutherans fly planes into buildings, most terrorists are Muslim).
Don’t let the trolls distract you from this video which may be a turning point in America and regaining our country.
Why did no one else in the room bow to the Saudi King?
Michelle takes great umbrage at George Bush holding hands with Abdullah. He is a feeble old man, and Bush was holding his hand to help him, as was quite obvious from the video of the event. He also held hands with Gerald Ford, a feeble old man, but this does not fit her narrative. Sometimes a person is just being nice. I’d MUCH prefer seeing George Bush holding hands with Abdullah, to seeing our current president abasing himself before the old jackass.
The way guys hold hands to show friendship in Saudi Arabia is to link their pinkies. They also greet each other by kissing each other on the nose. I lived there for 11 years. I know this for certain.
Michelle makes many good points and is a national treasure. But she also soured who knows how many people on John McCain, who was my last choice among the possible Republican nominees. But by God I voted for him because I didn’t want O’Bambi. How much blame does she deserve for discouraging Republicans, spreading despair, and keeping them from voting AGAINST O’Bambi, even if they couldn’t vote FOR McCain?
I agree. It is beyond belief that after all of the “kill Bush” screed that went on in their blogs, they have the audacity to assume that we would stoop as low as they. It is hilarious to hear them call out the formerly “jackbooted thugs” when the “thugs” now work for them. Liberals have streets named after them: ONE WAY.
Of course, a thief thinks everyone else is a thief. The social Democrats think everyone is as crazy as them, because it makes them feel sane. Good luck with that!
In their blind support/infight between the two leading parties, the field is open to traitors liek Clinton and Bush who have sole out America to anyone with petro-dollars / pesos.While Clinton rented out Lincoln bedroom for 10K a night, pandered to the top terrorist Arafat and cashed in on petro-dollars behind the ‘presidential library’ smoke-screen, Bush took trechery to a whole new level. Covering up for Saudis was ust the begining, folled up by dancing to Saudi tunes in making anothe terrorist country, Pakistan an ally in a phony ‘war-on-terror’, concoteted against saudi Arabis’s worst enemy Saddam, all in the name of 9/11, for whih Saddam had nothing to do. Don;t get me wrong, Saddam was merciless brutal ruler and removing him was the right thing to do. However, covering up for Saudi Arabia is going to cost merica dear in the long run. the same Americans, who disregarded Bush family ties to Al-Sauds, elected, re-elected Bush are paying with their tax-dollars and blood in Iraq and Afgnhanistan, while Bin Laden, who Bush promised to bring to justice ‘dead or alive’, is enjoying freedom like never before.
In the mean time, Bush:
- doubled student’s visas to Saudis.
- escorted Bin Ladens to safety.
- Danced on the ‘islamo-fascist’ term until a stern call from Al-Riyadh reminded who financed Arbusto.
Finally Bush increased ‘arms and aid’ to the richest countey int he world.
For his part, Bush was raised on Saudi dollars and made Bandar a ‘Bush’.
Repubicans turn a blind eye to the above pointing finger at Clinton, which is true for the most part.
However, this in-fighting is benifiting Jihad within and outside US.
Americans can thank their elected and re-electd POtus/commanders who dance to enemy tunes, for their bleak future, not that Americans can think that far.