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[Live Chat Update!] What the Hell? What’s Up With This Passive, Servile, Hat-In-Hand Bowing and Scraping!

By SusanUnPC on April 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM in G20, President Barack Obama

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If you’re going to bow that far downward, President Obama, why not scrape the floor as well? What is up with all of this slavish, subservient, and submissive behavior? (H/ts PM317 and Andy.) Just as with the G20 group photo yesterday, in which a passive Obama allowed himself to end up in the second row, off-center, instead of seated next to Queen Elizabeth, where Brazil’s Lula sat. Appearances matter. The inherent symbolism matters. Well, apparently not to Mr. Obama.

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Ultimately, my judgment of other people boils down to this question: “Would I want this person in a fox hole with me, as bullets fly overhead?” I would not invite Mr. Obama into the foxhole. While the rest of us would be on “high alert,” he’d lie down and fiddle with his iPod, listening to Jay-Z, instead of keeping his ears alert for any sounds of footsteps or bullets whizzing by closer and closer.

Here’s a video that Andy discovered that fleetingly shows the mortifying bow:

As a PROUD American who still sees our nation’s position as the “leader of the free world,” I am shocked that President Obama seems to go out of his way to depict our nation, as its top global representative, to be a second-class, has-been nation.

President Obama is making us look WEAK and quite VULNERABLE.

Did he buy into Fareed Zakaria’s premise in the title of his book, The Post-American World, which bloggers discovered in this photograph and posted widely during the election campaign?

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BTW: For some truly “un-PC” comments, check out the Yahoo Answers page all about the bow.

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Here’s a substantive CNBC discussion on the issues to be brought up during meeting between President Obama and King Abdullah, with former Saudi ambassador Richard Murphy, now with the Council on Foreign Relations, and Mohsin Kahn, a Peterson Institute Senior Fellow. Those issues include Iran, of course, and the U.S.’s Iraq exit strategy.