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obama bends over for the saudis

And everybody is asking why? He didn’t bow to Queen Elizabeth. Presidents and other heads of state don’t bow to royalty. But Obama bowed so low, when he met King Abdullah, he seemed to almost fall over. (and no, he wasn’t picking something up off the floor.)

Now everyone in the blogosphere is trying to figure out why.

If you remember, during the primary, I and others, wrote about Obama and his relationship to a man named Dr. Khalid al-Mansour. During an interview on NY1, Percy Sutton started discussing a friend of his, a man who contacted him and asked him to write a letter for Obama. That man was Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and he was raising money for Obama, and helping Obama to get into Harvard. This was the original interview:

Percy mentions that Dr. Khalid al-Mansour is the principal advisor to one of the world’s richest men.

Who is Khalid Al-Mansour?

“Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel.”

So, who did Khalid work for, who was this rich man he adavised? It was Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.

And who is Prince Al-Waleed?

He is the nephew of King Abdullah.

So, perhaps that might shed a little light as to why Obama is bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia? Maybe they go *way back*? Perhaps there is some history there? Maybe Khalid was working on behalf of Prince Al-Waleed when he *sponsored* Obama? Maybe Obama was thanking the King for his nephews donations?

Obama sure doesn’t help those *rumors* with things like bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia….

For more on The Bow, the RBO web site has a great round up of blog stories about this, including the Saudi media coverage, and lots more videos and pics.

Some people seem to think Obama was kissing his ring, but it does not appear to me, that he is. He’s just kissing his butt.

But…I’m sure it is just a coincidence….right?

Or maybe Obama just has issues about bowing down to females? (I just hope he didn’t call Queen Elizabeth sweetie!)

Memorandum has a round-up of stories on the event, too.

And don’t miss Susan’s earlier post on this.

  • chris from Chicago

    Great stuff..I have seen it all before…the people who really need to see this stuff do not! However they [and the rest of us] will watch the end results unfold in front of our very eyes…at great cost to us all!

  • olivia1998

    The networks were happy to show the Obama’s greeting the Queen and Prince but I haven’t seen one story on bowing to that towel head.

  • Portia Elizabeth

    That is disgusting for so many reasons! And shameful.
    I don’t think I’ve mentioned lately how I hate that individual.

  • John Smith

    I am sure we all wondered how Bush could have had such a high approval rating for so long and always asked our self why do people still support him. A good friend of my is an Obama supporter and he comes up with the same rationals as an other friend of my did for Bush. I guess at the end of the day people go by emotion not by logic. That is really what is wrong with politics and is how politicians can get away with just about anything.

  • pm317

    towel head.. haha good one. Whenever I see those sexist pigs, my blood boils.

  • WMCB

    The corrupt media is deliberately covering this up, under the cover of “it’s silly and inconsequential”.

    Oh, really? Then why did the NYT and other major outlets have snit fits when Bill Clinton gave the smallest of head-nods to the Japanese Emperor, AFTER the Emperor had already broken tradition by raising his glass in toast to Clinton?

    It was certainly newsworthy then.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/weekinreview/the-world-the-president-s-inclination-no-it-wasn-t-a-bow-bow.html

  • WMCB

    Yep. It’s all about putting on the red or blue jersey and rooting for your “team” come hell or high water, rather than caring what happens to this country.

  • pm317

    Sara, good post connecting the dots..

    We have to ask this important question:

    If his bowing to that Saudi was not serious but was “playful” then it indicates a certain degree of familiarity with these people (or else he is being a clown on an international setting). How and when did he become so “familiar” with these Saudis?

    A simple idealistic community organizer from Chicago, right? WRONG. Will the bots start using their grey matter at least now?

  • Diana L. C.

    Oh good! We have another POTUS in bed with the Saudis. We women count for nothing. It’s been clear since the primaries.

  • madamsecretaryofstatehrc

    I am still waiting on the MSM to make as big a deal out of this as they did with MO hugging the Queen or Bruni-Sarkozy not kissing BO.

    I could not believe my eyes when I first saw the video on the .net, I, (naively) thought at first, that he was falling. I am still shaking my head. When will America wake up from their stupor.

    By the way, I watch very little MSM news these days, did they show anything about the answer to Nick Robinson’s question?

  • I’mFedUp

    And we wonder why Obama is selling us down the river? All of us who were terrified about Obama’s scary connections TRIED to warn people. Khalid Al Monsour calls for white people to be chopped into little piece, literally, and he’s the guy who created Obama? Now do people GET IT? He’s running around apologizing for what a piece of crap this country is, bowing to the Saudi King and people don’t GET IT? What part of the puzzle is missing for the ignorant Bots? Seems pretty clear to me. I said it from the first time I laid eyes on that POS Fraud – he’t our worst enemy and he will destroy us. This has been planned forever and it’s happening while people cheer the scumbag on. Thanks Bots, when you finally figure out that your vote literally caused the end of America, boy will you have a long ass hangover and shit life.

  • elliewyatt

    kow·tow (kou-tou’, kou’tou’)-
    To show servile deference.

    kowtow (verb)-

    1. Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
    2. Bend the knee and bow in a servile manner

    gen·u·flect-

    1. To bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor or ground, as in worship.

    2. To be servilely respectful or deferential; grovel.

    to genuflect-
    To bend the knee, as in servitude or worship
    To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.

    _______________

    People the world over, in all cultures recognize the implications and meaning of his action.

    I note in the video that a moment after the genuflection to the king, he walked directly in front of the seated Queen without any acknowlegement whatever… not the teeniest nod or glance one would give someone that you had met that day. He stood right in front of her, yacking with others, with his butt at the level of her face.

  • Tuppence411

    Carla Bruni leaned forward to extend the traditional faire la bise and the look on Barky’s face made her change her mind and offer her hand instead. Very gracious hostess. The real question is why did Barky have a look of either disgust or terror on his face?
    1.) “Oh yuck! a beautiful woman is coming in for a kiss. GROSS!”
    OR
    2.) “Don’t No! MEchelle will be so jealous. She’ll beat the sh!t out of me back in our room. Haven’t you seen her arms? She packs a punch!”

    Cracked me up how later on Sarkozy had teased and cajoled him into accepting la bise from a woman on the rope line. “Don’t be scared”

  • Obama: Dubya II Electric Boogaloo

    Well, gee, with a name like Barack Hussein Mohammad Obama you’re surprised the guy is more loyal and enamored with his muslim brethen than the Brits?

    But I guess when we kept pointing out this during the election we were race and religion baiting haters. Even the Admins here got into a tizzy about the use of Obamas middle name. Yet now, we see how he sucks up to the Saudis.

    Where is my apology from the admins for their use of censorship when this was obvious truth?

  • http://trackacrat.com/ Track-A-’Crat

    Considering that President Obama is seemingly to release Guantanamo terrorists into the US and then give them some kind of social security provision (http://trackacrat.com/2009/03/28/well-fair-welfare/), this is really just the logical next step.

    Sickening to watch him behave like this – act in accordance with your position!

  • Tuppence411

    Whoa….. I didn’t catch the genuflect, but your right. He did! Such odd, puzzling behavior.

  • http://! stodgie

    sara, as an involved american writer living in europe, please keep us informed on the sentiment there. it can be very informative and thanks for this article.

  • I’mFedUp

    It’s aggravating Boogaloo, huh? People called us “racists” for pointing out that hey, gee, a guy named Barack Hussein Obama might be Muslim. No matter how much proof we had, and the fact that he essentially copped to it on national TV, people claimed he was just a good ole Christian boy. ROFLMAO. Then we had quotes from his OWN MOUTH about how “the Muslim prayer is the most beautiful sound in the world.” Nope, that didn’t make him Muslim. Hey, but way, his education was funded by scary Arab folks who hate white people. Shame on us, we’re “racists” for telling the TRUTH. Some of us had all of these pieces and worse put together but we were “racist” for being afraid of this total freak in the White House.

    Well, he has done it. Ended everything our forefathers shed blood for. Happy now, Bots? We are being raped and violated by the crapstains on the loony left and it’s time to stop it. My feeling is that it’s too late, but we have to try to save our country from this filth. Yeah, we were all wearing our tin foil when we called the Fraud The Manchurian Candidate. Boy does it feel good to be right, but it’s at the cost of my country.

  • DAB

    Does anyone know if BO was kissing the King’s hand and/or ring. You can’t really see exactly what is going on here but it is truly shocking!

    Wake Up America!

  • andrew191

    Inside, 0bama is still a very little boy. A beautiful woman like Carla Bruni is very intimidating to him. I watched the clip, his body language clearly displayed that he was intimidated.

    All the heads of state know what a weakling he is, so they butter him up, play to his vanity, and make him feel as though he is in control. This gives the U.S. public, and the World, the false impression that 0bama is adored and respected. Leaders like Medvedev will smile and call him “Comrade” while they’re already walking all over him. That’s what happens when you send a boy to do a man’s job.

  • Tuppence411

    Puzzling, because I am trying to figure out how a non-Catholic American even knows how to genuflect or what it means. I know how to do it, only because the nuns beat it into me at a young age LOL. Then again, I only right-knee genuflect to GOD.

    Does anyone here know about genuflection outside of the Catholic tradition? Is it used in Islam? Is it used in other parts of the world with sovereigns? Is this something he picked up in Indonesia?

  • Becks

    Does anyone know if any of the other leaders also bowed to the King of SA?

  • Patrick Henry

    Two days ago…..I sent Susan another view of Obama bent down before the king and you can see the Kings Arm extended toward him…I also sent susan pictures of Muslim Men kissing other muslim Mens Hands along with the Words to the typical Muslim Greeting while the Hand is kissed ..

    As someone who was raised Muyslim as a Child…I’m sure Obama knows this Greeting and I suspect he was kissing the kings hand..not his ring…and possibly obama unttered a perfect muslim greeting also..

    It seems in the photos that others are looking at the Kings Hand while Obama is bent over..

    Im sure Louis Farrakahn was Pleased…

  • elliewyatt

    “In 328 BC, Alexander the Great introduced into his court etiquette some form of genuflection already in use in Persia. In the Byzantine Empire even senators were required to genuflect to the emperor.”

  • I’mFedUp

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snpc21XjUG4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Femail.secureserver.net%2Fwebmail.php%3Flogin%3D1%26gzipjs%3D1&feature=player_embedded

    Not to be OT, but has everyone seen the Amnesty Bill? This is ridiculous. Why does the left hate America so much? Everyone HAS to see this. If you don’t get pissed at this one then you’re not American. Why on earth is this crap happening to us?

  • OxyCon

    The House of Saud are considered to be the most important religious rulers in the Islamic world, with the king in effect being the true keeper of the Islamic faith.

    That is the reason why Obama bowed so low to him.

    Consider that Obama has been quite versed in Islamic praying and bowing in his youth living in Jakarta.

    In effect, Obama just had our entire country bow to the Islamic faith.

  • elliewyatt

    In Han Chinese culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence. It was widely used to show reverence for one’s elders, superiors, and especially the Emperor, as well as for religious and cultural objects of worship.
    ……..
    Kowtow came into English in the early 19th century to describe the bow itself, but its meaning soon shifted to describe any abject submission or grovelling (today, the standing bow).

    Kowtow was very important in the diplomacy of China with European powers, since it was required to come into the presence of the Emperor of China, but it meant submission before him. The British embassies of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1793) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1816) were foiled since kowtowing would mean acknowledging their King as a subject of the Emperor.
    _________________

    Older cultures KNOW history and meaning. We Americans don’t, as we are a new mish-mash culture. Barky’s bended-knee bow does not have much significance to us, as we don’t have a coupla thousand years of tradition. The significance of his grovel and submission is obvious to a great many others around the world.

  • Andy

    What a despicable disgrace…. PBO humiliated all Americans with his subservient deep bow down to the Saudi King. Where are his alliances? He is not just “Barack H. Obama” out there. He is the embodiment of the Office of the President of the United States.

  • Ferd Berfle

    One sort of excrement POS bowing to another. Frankly I don’t care. Neither is worthy of a second thought. As with the last 8 years, I’m just going to batten down the hatches.

  • Tuppence411

    Interesting Ellie! Thnaks for all the research.

  • Andy

    Do you know what’s Jake Tapper or Major Garret’s email addresses??

    I frankly want to know why isn’t the PBO being asked about it?

    I am truly outraged by the bow as much as by the auto-censure of the MSM
    with this. Enough.

  • BVD

    Is he the only one that bowed to the King or did other leaders do it also?

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  • candymarl

    Excellent point.

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    the best man for this job.is clearly a woman.
    H.R.C. to be exact..

  • Thinker

    wow.

    NY TIMES is officially a gutter magazine.

    They threw a fit when Bill Clinton gave a head nod to the Japanese Emperor but don’t say anything when Barack Obama gives the lowest of all bows to a Muslim Saudi leader??

    Barack Obama is a Muslim, and he was showing his sign of respect in front of a Muslim leader. He didn’t bow down to the Queen like that. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a Muslim,the problem is the media that is blatantly covering for him.

    I mean damn, he was almost on the floor and this video tells the full story.

  • Thinker

    Then we had quotes from his OWN MOUTH about how “the Muslim prayer is the most beautiful sound in the world.” Nope, that didn’t make him Muslim.

    -I know right??

    The hardest thing to get people to admit to is the obvious.

    It’s scary that so many people can be this naive.

  • MOHyder

    Why wouldn’t Obama bow to the Saudi King? Obama is, after all, the head of the Dhimmicrat Party.

  • T F W Choo

    This shows how absolutely arrogant, probably not all Yankees, but especially the Yankee politicians are. Do u have to make such a big fuss or issue with this so-called “bow”? Don’t u have any other better things to do…! Even if it were a bow, it shouldn’t necessarily be implied as disgraceful or degrading. It’s just a simple act of humility. Being the leader of the most powerful nation in the world doesn’t mean he’s head & shoulders or almighty over all other fellow human beings. If this “bow” were considered as genuine, this shows or can be construed that President Obama is serious & sincere in reaching out to people of other cultures or religious faiths. It’s difficult people out there who like to make life miserable for many people in the world. That’s why there are so many conflicts in the world.

  • who cares any more

    Wow !!! The united states bowing to the House of SAUD and to MECCA the very place from where all the hijacker flew their planes to the core of the evil empire to strike down 3000 women,men,children,mothers,fathers,sisters,brothers.

    Finally,the great satan bowing to Mecca !!! We now know who the real BOSS is.

    Also, why nod to the queen and king of england and kiss the feet of the HOUSE OF SAUD ?

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