This time to the Japanese emperor.
Power Line says:
Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy.
Breach of protocol? Obama is establishing the protocol here. It is what heintentionally does, I would think. But it is fair to tie the gesture to Obama's general message:
He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same plane as other regimes based on tribal privilege and royal bloodlines. He gives expressive form to the idea that the United States now willingly prostrates itself before the rest of the world. He declares that the United States is a country like any other, only worse, because we have so much for which to apologize.
Once is an accident. Twice means...
UPDATE: Let's compare how other world leaders have greeted royalty. [Link]
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We might not have been liked by the rest of the world, but we damned sure had respect. Now, we're a laughing stock. Oh, yeah, he's helping our image a lot. There should be no shame in being the greatest country in the world. I hope we can recover from the damage he's wreaking all over the planet.
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