A senior Whitehouse official defending President Barack Obama claimed he was observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
I guess the other leaders of the world failed to “observe protocol.”
Pictures speak louder than 1000 words: Was Obama Simply Following Protocol? You Decide.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
King of Morrocco
Dick Cheney
Prime Minister of Slovenia
President South Korea
President Kazakhistan
Prime Minister India
Vladimir Putin of Russia
President Obama
President Barack Obama’s bow to the Japanese emperor Saturday following his bow to the Saudi Arabian monarch in April is creating a humiliating new precedent. Until Obama, no president of the United States in the more than 230 years since the country was founded in 1776 had ever bowed to a member of royalty.
