Mr. President: Take your bow and shove it.

Make no bones about it: Obama's bow to Emperor Akihito is an attack on all of us.

It's hard for me to quantify how repellent I find Obama's bow to the Japanese emperor. It confirms assumptions so many have about Obama being "the other". Assumptions I am not opposed to for the most part. He is, in many ways, not like us. He's the most unAmerican American President we've ever had in upbringing, thought process, and connection to his citizens. Without his media support, the residual pain of the Bush years, and the loud children on the Left, I suspect there would be little support left for him. It's hard to fathom how any American feels a connection to him - black or white. His speeches come from the mountain top, his attitudes, when mistakenly revealed, are condescending and his narcissism is degrading and harmful.

His bow to the descendant of the ruling house of a country that attacked us, an attack remembered by many still alive, is beyond the pale. It is disgusting.

Real Americans don't bow. To anyone. It violates every principle of republicanism. It is flies in the face of our history and revolution. An American head of state bowing to a foreign head of state is an attack of the first order on American principles and values. Obama must be excoriated for his putrid action.

Finally: I can no longer say the current President has any business representing the United States. Whatever the excuse given for his action - it speaks volumes about the man's thinking and character. The United States is a country among countries. We are subservient to no one. If our head of state is either so green or believes American Presidents should bow to others - then he is not worthy of the office. Our head of state represents all of us. When he bows to a another head of state he is symbolically bowing for all of us. Obama knows this. By prostrating himself he is taking a pot shot at the citizens he represents.

10 headlines

10 Headlines you may have missed:


Obama girls host tea party for their dolls at White House.
Garofalo calls them racists on Countdown.



Emmanuel blames Bush for Yellowstone Supervolcano
Insists that Supervolcano may erupt, but only because it is in a red state.



Caroline Kennedy rejected by co-workers at White House Starbucks.
Worker states: Just because you drink lattes doesn't mean you can make them.


Druggies take over Twitter. Rename it Tweaker


Michelle Obama to carry nuclear football.
She's got the whole world in her arms.


White House announces budget cutbacks
Happy meals for staff cut back to 3 days a week.


Obama visits CIA, asks "What is it you guys do again?"


White House TelePrompTer goes on strike demanding Youtube residuals.


Bowing all the rage with the Facebook crowd
Taking a cue from Obama, social networkers stop "poking" and start "bowing"


Bo demands name change.
WH reveals that first pet is a Republican-wants to be called "Gipper."

friday flotsam and jetsum

Being gone all day most of the news is already fully aired...but some flotsam and jetsum:

Passing Strange: Few conservatives have grown on me more than Charles Krauthammer.
Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world...It is passing strange for a world leader to celebrate his own country's decline.
LIAR LIAR: W.H. lies about the Chicago Slim's groveling.
Not So Fast: Fed Staff Lowers Economic Outlook for 2009-10
Black Agenda Report: ...black Democrats and elected leaders will lose and are already losing their willingness to speak truth to power.
Watch out! Ducky is angry: Ducky, Hamsher, Avarosis want some liberal long green!
NO DEGREE FOR YOU: Chicago Slim will be giving the commencement address at Arizona State but ASU declined to give him an honorary degree because he does not have enough "experience". I could not agree more. Go SunDevils. I would link a post here but the only ones out there are snarky BHO handjobs.

2 photos of the Obamas

Two telling photos of the Obamas emerged today.

One is of Michelle Obama slipping her arm around Queen Elizabeth. This is a protocol no no and I support it completely. Years ago an American women in D.C. found herself so ecstatic to be in the presence of the Queen she hugged her causing a minor bruhaha. I loved her for it. It was an exuberant embrace that was quintessentially American. Mrs. Obama's gesture was subtle and tasteful apparently in response to the Queen slipping her arm around her first. The pic can be seen here and it looks charming.

Another photo showed our President bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia. This is repellent. There is not enough emphasis I can put on this: Americans do not bow to royalty. Ever.

Ever.
Ever.
EVER.

We do not believe in kings. Every American bone in my American body vibrates with repulsion at Obama's action. Noquarter discusses the appearance of weakness Obama gave off with his grovel. The policy signal concerns me less than the idea of an elected American President bowing to a royal anything. What was he thinking? Who is this man? Bowing to a king is a profoundly un-American action.

We've managed to avoid the world wide addiction to royalty for 200 plus years. We live in a republic - still - I suggest the "constitutional scholar" in the White House bone up on the Constitution.