Like he bowed to the Saudi king.
When the story emerged from the shadows of the Internet, Ben Smith ran an item on Politico with the White House denying the bow. "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Oh?
Once may be a mistake, twice is a pattern.
Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. 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.
But let's not mistake his deference to hereditary rulers:
Obama is a man of extraordinary arrogance. He seeks fundamentally to transform the United States. With him, a new age begins.
Was this the "change" you were hoping for?
2 comments:
hmm. Must be an Indonesian sort of thing, learned as a child and never forgot. Like riding a bike, really.
I don't know how much more of this I can stand.
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