Poll: 67 Percent of Americans Approve of Obama’s Bow

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Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Eric Kleefeld points to the internals of a Fox News poll — one that shows President Obama’s overall approval rating dipping into the mid-40s — that has a mere 26 percent of Americans saying it’s “never appropriate” for the president to bow to foreign leaders. Sixty-seven percent say it’s fine.

I think Greg Sargent gets at the point of this: The political press will latch onto basically anything that bubbles out of the conservative press, reporting it as a 50/50 controversy, even if it isn’t one.

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triathlon
Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 6:02 pm

JAPAN’S CHRYSANTHEMUM ARMOR WARRIOR

[VICTORY IS FLEETING]

The American-Israeli Empire has turned away from any teaching of any faith or religion, that in anyway has any resemblance to that of the Tathagata, their intentions are neither righteous nor serve justice, but serve only the tyranny of the bottom line, it is just business, and therefore their armies no matter what earthly protections were given them, what technological advances they possess meet with failure, and their enterprises have been short live. The Empire by having chosen to walk the path of the tyranny of the bottom line; Stimulus, Blood for Oil, Resource and Markets Wars, their Empire once victorious has forgotten the instability of earthly things, their success has been great but the wheel of fortune has turned and the Empire is falling into the dust. The Armies of the Empire fear their enemies more than death at their own hands committing suicide in record numbers; they have been given over to their enemies.

[The Feather Robe]

The Kyodo News has shown their weak media proclaimed Messiah Imperial President bowing to the Emperor Akihito and Empress of Japan, displacing both seritorship and fealty to the Emperor, your letters of grief burned upon the summit of Mt. Fujiyama, have risen to the heavens stirring compassion for the long suffering People of The Land of The Rising Sun, the feather robe has been placed once again upon your nation, all of your sadness will be of the past, the heavens will once again be compassionate, the chill winds of the evening of occupation will be lifted, the Sun rises from the east over the Mountain Abounding with Warriors, the beauty of the Chrysanthemum, and the smell of the Cherry Blossom, will once again flow over the Land of The Rising Sun.

[The Samurai of the Mountain Abounding with Warriors]

A Samurai Warrior of the Mountain Abounding with Warriors has been dispatched wearing the Chrysanthemum Armor of State, a Sangokushi manga, of the Three Kingdoms, from the [9th] District of Hokkaid? [PM] Prime Minster Yukio Hatoyama of the [LDP] Liberal Democratic Party, no longer will the Land of the Rising Sun be occupied nor subservient to the falling American-Israeli Empire, the great wheel of fortune has turned against them. The Samurai of Mt. Fujiyama, Yukio “Sangokushi manga” Hatoyama, has ended the support of The American-Israelis Empire War of Stimulus, Blood for Oil, Resource and Markets, ending Japan’s refueling missions within the Indian Ocean of their fleets, and will call for the ending of the [2006] agreement allowing the [47K] Forty-Seven Thousand, Foothold Troops of Asian Occupation, to remain on Japanese soil, demanding their total removal from Japan, and its occupation of the southern Japanese Island of Okinawa, with the closing of their Marine Corp Air Station Futenma. The Samurai of Mt. Fujiyama, Yukio “Sangokushi manga” Hatoyama, has called for a closer relationship with China, with the creation of a [16] Sixteen Nation currency trading bloc within the Asian Sphere of Chinese Influence, as the Euro represents the nations of the [EU] European nations linking the [10] Ten, [ASEAN] Association of Southeast Asian Nations, countries, who already want a single currency by [2020] the generally accepted end of the American-Israeli Empire, member would include; Japan, China, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and India.

[The Fall of the American-Israeli Empire]

With the fall of the American-Israeli Empire by [2020], the ripples of Change are spreading across the globe, new alliances are forming and new realities must be embraced, it is now up to the Dreamers, Thinkers, and Workers of this the New Era, too create the New Spheres of Influence Dynamic Society in which they will be the masters of their fate, with the ending of the American-Israeli Empire a new day, and a new world has begun. It is good that the time of the end of the Empire has come.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN


Roger Bartlett
Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 8:05 pm

What is the big deal? Eisenhower bowed, Nixon bowed. It's showing respect! Why don't these Fox nutsos get upset that George W. Bush illegally spied on the entire country for 8 years and now Obama's continuing to do so? THAT is worth getting upset about!


tacticalgrace
Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 11:10 pm

It is a simple polite gesture in Japaneses culture. We shake hands they bow. This in just more media tempest in a teacup BS.


fukum
Comment posted November 20, 2009 @ 7:15 am

How many approved GHWB when he puked on him?


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Herrence Meritocracy
Comment posted November 20, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

Combined with the historical record, once again polling data confirm that the outrage that exploded from the right was completely disproportionate and out-of-touch with reality. And yet, I would bet that the next minor or non-issue on another Obama diplomatic trip ((ZOMG, Obama used his salad fork instead of his dinner fork!!!11) will be portrayed as a MAJOR GAFFE by the punditry…


Roar
Comment posted November 20, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

This is the most incorrect post I have ever seen.

Yukio Hatoyama is a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), not the LDP.


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Housekeeping
Comment posted January 18, 2011 @ 9:04 am

I also agree that it is a simple polite gesture in Japaneses culture and nothing more.


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