In spite of a clear video showing a clear bow before Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the Obama White House is now claiming he did no such thing. The Obama administration makes the claim, “It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah.”

Judge for yourself:

If that isn’t an obvious bow, was he instead trying to lick the Kings boots?

Don’t forget, Queen Elizabeth is much shorter that King Abdullah. The O did not bend over at all for her, just a nod of the head.

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28 Responses

  1. I question too some are makeing that he was bowing before the King, as a “sign of respect.”

    Yet, Queen Elizabeth merits only a nod of his head?

    They need to get their stories straight.

    Mini, dis, cheesey and crowd, we are waiting for today’s talking point on this.

  2. No doubt RWW, Lewnie the Lewser forgot that his Repubicant Chump Bush was leading the Saudi King around by the hand beggin’ for this Highness to give the U.S. cheaper oil. Lewser should have a little more graditude to his Lord Obama. Being nice to the Saudi King is keeping Lewnie in his job changing oil.

  3. Me,

    Like many Republicans, Lew has a good memory. That is he remembers the good things they did and foregets the rest, or as is most often the case, denies the rest ever happened.

  4. Wow, boys, weak talking points this time around. Moveon.org not up to speed on this one, huh?

    Your “proof” shows Bush in a traditional greeting kiss, that I wouldn’t do.

    The kiss actually dates back to Biblical times and is even mentioned in the Bible,

    2 Corinthians 13:12
    Greet one another with a holy kiss.

    1 Thessalonians 5:26
    Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

    While kissing another male is not something I’d do, other than my grandchildren of course, greeting in such a manner is not the same thing as bowing before another leader.

    Bowing is not a greeting and signifies the Kings power over his subjects.

    So, I take it you can’t find photo’s justifying homey’s bow to claim others did it too?

    If the greeting kiss is all you have, Moveon.org sure let you boys down today.

  5. Lewnie the Lewser? Sounds like a cartoon in the making. Move over Woody the Woodpecker!

    Anyways, Lew, you are good at blowing smoke. The fact is you are a phoney and a fraud when it comes to your defense of Bush. It is sad that you have to duck and dodge your way through life in order to stay on top. The whole Faith and Freedom Foundation talking points are a little kookie, but you already know that.

    We know what President Bush did and we know what President Obama did. Kissing and holding someone’s hand shows alot more “weakness” if you will, than giving a bow. I bow to my sensei and I bow to my sifu. At best it is a sign of respect. Kissing my sifu and sensei and holding their hands is on a different plane all together. Maybe a little on the manlove side. But by all means if that is the way you and George W. Bush shwing, carry on.

  6. Still braying at the moon, dis-abel?

    Who is the fraud and the phoney?

    You can’t even google cultural differences.

    Besides all that, even if Bush did “shwing” with King Abdullah, that doesn’t change that homey bowed before the King of Saudi Arabia in a sign of subjection to his authority.

    None of you have even addressed that, as usual. Just more obfuscation.

    By the way, son, it wasn’t “Woody the Woodpecker,” it was just Woody Woodpecker. Obviously, you can’t even google cartoon characters and get them straight.

  7. BTW, dis-abel, if homey’s bowing was only a “sign of respect,” as you claim, why no similar respect shown to Queen Elizabeth?

    Does homey respect Muslim Kings our our staunchest ally’s?

    You trolls just dig yourselves in deeper and deeper with every lame excuse you give for every one of homey’s little gaffes.

  8. Actually there Lew-nie, the only one that seems to be “dis-abled” is you.

    “Lew Waters A Viet Nam Veteran, member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans”

    At least you should have some respect for yourself and the members of your group. Maybe someone should give your group a call to let them know that you are bashing on the disabled. They probably already know you are a disgrace anyways.

  9. Actually, Lew-nie I am hoping he bowed to the Saudi King because he was showing respect to a fellow Muslim. Would there be anything wrong with that? Or do you hate Muslims or something?

  10. This to Iago, Little MiniMe, and Un-Abel: American Presidents DOT NO bow to dictatorial leaders, of whom the Saudi prince, your idol, Komrade Zero, bowed down to. The sooner you clowns realize that, the sooner we here can recognize you guys as true Americans. Until then, you guys are nothing more than extremely low-level dirt bags that deserve no respect at all. And if you don’t like that, tough sh*t!!!!

  11. dis-abel, you get more far fetched all the time.

    Bowing is a sign of subjection and recognition of the others power over you.

    Did we give up our soverignty when ya’ll elected homey?

    Your short memory also fails you again, unless you want to revisit your claim of my bashing Islam again and made a fool of again.

    Worse than his bowing to a Saudi King is the White House openly lying about the obvious bow.

    I thought this was going to be the most open, most honest, most transparent administration ever?

    More hollow words and a novice sitting atop the most powerful seat in the world with nary a clue of what to do, just try to look the part and read the teleprompter.

    Ditto’s, Scottie

  12. Did we give up our soverignty when ya’ll elected homey?

    Where were you Lew-nie when George W. and you Republicans were giving our sovereignty to the Saudis and China? You must have been on one of your long naps. Maybe Mama Lew-nie didn’t wake you up in time.

    President Obama is probably just trying to give you grease monkeys some job security. 😉

    Anyways, sovereignty is over-rated don’t you know. Thanks to the multinationals, we are all globalists now.

  13. Abel said,

    “Actually, Lew-nie I am hoping he bowed to the Saudi King because he was showing respect to a fellow Muslim. Would there be anything wrong with that?”

    An excerpt from the campaign fact check site of the O-man

    “Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian
    November 12, 2007″
    http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_has_never_been_a_muslim_1.php

    Abel — “Would there be anything wrong with that?”

    No there would be nothing wrong with that at all, just verification of another lie in a succession of lies! Such is the big O’s character, hope, change????!

  14. As much as the denial flies and ya’ll pile on to blow smoke and try to find a strawman to distract attention, there is a universe of difference between a traditional friendly greeting and a bow. There is also the context; in Japan, for example, bowing is a cultural art and different bows are appropriate for different occassions.

    This is quite different. Obama was not greeting a Japanese prime minister with a precisely calculated bow of respect but was clearly bowing to the Saudi king. It is a disgrace for the president of the USA to bow before ANY king since the entire founding of America was centered around the refusal of the colonists to bow before the monarch of one of the most powerful nations on Earth. Either Barrack thought that bowing like a subservient courier was only polite or he really thinks that the president of America ought to reverance the king of a nation that begs for American protection with one hand while shoving money at rabblerousing clerics with the other, it is disgraceful behavior.

  15. You could be right Keith. This is nothing but anti-Obama rhetoric and nothing more.

    I was interested to see that conservative Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs thought all the hyperventilating by the right-wingers is a little ridiculous. Johnson posted the infamous video of George W. Bush bowing before the king. He went on to say that he didn’t know what all the screaming was about, that American Presidents have been kowtowing to the Saudis for a very long time. I would agree with that statement.

    Like someone asked on Lars Larson’s show, where did Obama learn that. President Obama said, “I learned it by watching George”.

    All this aside though, I do find it kind of cute that you Republicans really think that sovereignty still exists. Where did you get that idea from? Sorry to rain on your Teabagger party, but sovereignty has sadly been gone for a long time.

  16. mini-abel, are you really that big of a dullard?

    Is this what Moveon.org says is “bowing?”

    Sorry, but lowering your head to have a medal placed around your neck is not bowing in subserviance, as your boy did.

    King Abdullah placed nothing around B HO’s neck as he did Bush.

    Ya’ll are really desperate to compare the traditional greeting kiss and receiving a medal around the neck to the subserviant bow of Obama.

    Since you deny our soverignty, just which country do you look up to now? It surely isn’t America.

  17. Lew-nie, it seems you are the dullard and actually quite dull looking. But you already knew that.

    This is what your side, Charles Johnson, the CONSERVATIVE who writes Little Green Footballs has to say on the matter. (Maybe you are confused cause your boss Victoria calls it “Little Green Apples”.) I know you don’t get out much. You should try it. Not all Conservatives are as dense, old and obsolete like you.

    Here, check it out: Bush Bowed Too

    Thank me very much. Now go learn something you big dope!

  18. I wasn’t directing the first part at Lew and the other conservatives, yanno. But it doesn’t much matter… the entire lot of ye are great at generating smoke. I’ll point out, however, that the point of the post is that Obama did a certain thing, not that he was alone in doing it. Can you at least concede that Obama bowed to the Saudi king and further, that kowtowing to the Saudis is disgraceful no matter who the culprit is?

    Well, actually, sovreignty is still alive and well in that if you’re strong enough to invoke it and make it stick, no one will fight you over it except with mealymouthed verbal abuse. As a practical matter, however, sovreignty does not exist for a country that is too small to ward off the self-righteous international do-gooders who believe that there is international law to which everyone must kowtow.

    Should we wish it, the United States has no obligation to go along with such tripe and frankly, the list of those who stand any chance of forcing it on us is extremely short; maybe Britain, China, or Russia but I cannot think of anyone else with enough military and economic clout. So sovreignty exists should we ever desire to make use of it.

    On the entire bowing thing, I concede the point, Abel, that Obama isn’t alone in being weak and disgraceful but I still say that his behavior was disgraceful no matter who else did the same thing. You can’t exactly deflect culpability by saying “he did it too!”

  19. I have enough material for a book now “The Sore Losers Sorry Attempts to Find Fault with Obama” This bowing thing gives me the final item of hundreds to complete Volume I. Thank you so much for you input. I going to see if I can get Lew to write the foreword.

    BTW I think I prefer bowing to kissing and handholding.

  20. Never heard of Charles Johnson, mini-abel.

    Has he replaced Rush Limbaugh as our exhalted leader? Or, are you desperately clinging to his words because they seem to agree with yours?

    I guess I am the dullard, though, since I watched your video “evidence” instead of letting someone else tell me what happens in it.

    Thinking for yourself does seem to be foreign in your world. You and mini-cheesey should try it sometime, instead of desperately searching for any comment by anyone you preceive to be a conservative.

    Check out Rush Limbaugh’s take on the bowing.

  21. I’m curious, Abel… did you even watch the video you’re using as evidence? Because the blogger you cited screwed up… Bush didn’t bow to the Saudi king, he bowed his head a little so the king could put a medallion around his neck.

    Next time, I would highly reccommend that you actually examine your material closely before citing it. Considering that you think little of Lew, perhaps it’s not a good idea to give him a legitimate reason to jeer at your arguments i.e. using a video as evidence that doesn’t prove what you claim it does.

  22. UnAbel has nothing left in his small arsenal of insults against those of us who are conservative and have little regard for Komrade Zero, so now he is resorting to making personal comments against Lew’s appearance. When things get to that point, especially in a public forum such as this one, personal attacks are sure signs that you are losing badly.

    Give it up, UnAbel, while you still have some shred of decency left. Because right now you have no dignity, no credibility, no common sense, no common decency, no basis for your ridiculous assertions, and no one, save possibly Little MiniMe and iago, who can and will take you seriously.

  23. Don’t be too hard on mini-abel, guys. He and the others just parrot what they search and find to defend the ‘O.’

    As young as they are, young brains filled with mush, as Rush puts it, they are impressionable and have not grown out of the know more than their parents stage.

    Most of all, they are frightened to death to objectively look at our experiences and knowledge and discover just how wrong they are about things.

    As Winston Churchill said, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened,” and “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”