http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/would_abe_lincoln_bow_down_to.html

April 03, 2009
Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king?
James Lewis
Step aside, Queen Elizabeth dearie, and allow us to poke you in the ribs on Larry King. What a gag! And to you, imperialist swine Gordon Brown, we give you a well-considered diplomatic slap in the face. Take those cheap DVDs and shove them. As for that Churchill bust, get it outta here. I am the Egg of Change.


As for King Abdullah bin Saud, I, a free-born Black man, bow down to you in the ancient gesture of slave submission --- even though the Saudis no longer welcome bowing to a mere human being, but only to Allah. That low bow and that series of "Up yours!" gestures to the Brits, who are still helping us militarily in Afghanistan, are carefully scripted gestures. They are meant to be seen by you and me -- imperialistic monsters -- and by the famous Arab street, who understand bowing and submission quite nicely. Even though the Arab League just applauded the indicted little Hitler of the Sudan, a regime still deeply enmeshed in criminal genocide and Black slavery -- raiding, killing, and forcible conversion of native African peoples to Islam.


What would Abraham Lincoln say? Would he turn red with shame at the sight of an American president kowtowing to a slave-keeping Arab royal? Would he laugh, and turn it into one of his famous stories? My bet is on laughing, but we'll never know.


We do know that an Illinois frontier lawyer never bows down to anybody. Except maybe to sucker the local Indian Chief into moving off another piece of land. Because Obama's gesture is just that, a mere gesture, and therefore tinged with the contempt Mr. Obama really harbors toward everybody in the world, most of all his own people. I do not think he is a Muslim, because he is bowing toward a human being, not Allah. Obama's father was a socialist atheist, and so is Obama. Which all the Arab regimes know perfectly well.


When we see him going on hajj in a white sheet, we'll know different. Right now this is just Obama grand PR at another level -- like those Greek Styrofoam columns, the Axelrod rock-star campaign aimed at the twitterhead masses who voted him in -- two to one for the under-thirties, with the over-thirties split right down the middle. That's why the twitters still worship him, and will until the day he fades from the scene.


As for that trillion-dollar vow to the Third World, guess who is going to pay it -- and who won't? Right. That's how it always happens with Uncle Sucker at the UN. So it looks like Obama is really a post-colonial revanchist -- one who is intent on taking revenge, psychological and material for the perceived slights of the past.

Next: A trip to Africa to apologize for the slave trade that was stopped by the British Navy and American Republicans, like Abe Lincoln, 150 years ago. A well-rehearsed ancient grievance like slavery, the sins of the great-great-great-grandfathers, can always be used to guilt-trip white folks today into giving more of their money.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/with_bowed_head_and_bended_kne.html

(Interesting article)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeTr9P7ax4

Obama without a teleprompter is a far worse speaker than Bush, and that is saying something

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/with_bowed_head_and_bended_kne.html

The American mainstream media apparently paid no heed, and instead focused on Michelle Obama casually touching the Queen of England when introduced to the United Kingdom's monarch. If anyone has seen MSM paying attention to this signal event, a traditional acknowledgement of fealty, please let me know.


If it was not a gesture of subordination, why did the Saudi King fail to respond with a similar bow?


The left wing blogs are doing their best to ridicule reaction to those who reacted in horror to body language conveying subordination and fealty. A self-identified "community college professor" on the left wing site Firedoglake uses a lot of Anglo-Saxonisms in ridiculing conservative reaction:


The wingnut attention span just isn't that long, usually, and even by these cretins' standards this "story" is pretty thin drool.


"Thin drool" is priceless, isn't it? The expression is "thin gruel", but I guess this "professor" has good reason to write under a pseudonym. There's nothing more ridiculous than an illiterate calling others cretins.


Another lefty blog, Whiskey Fire is even more pathetic:


...note that Obama is about a foot taller than Abdullah, and so had to kind of contort himself to get into any sort of position to shake the sheikh's hand. (Ha ha that is a joke, shake the sheikh's hand.)


Prior to the bow to the Saudi monarch, lefty blogs were celebrating the First Couple's expected casual attitude toward the Queen. Democratic Underground wrote: (hat tip: Powerline):


Before the Kennedy's first state visit to England, Jacqueline Kennedy asked Duke whether she should curtsy to the Queen. He told her no because she was the wife of the head of state and heads of state and their wives do not go around bowing and curtsying to one another.


Three years later, after her husband's funeral, Mrs. Kennedy received guests in the White House family quarters. When Prince Philip greeted her, she curtsied to him. Duke was surprised because Mrs. Kennedy was a stickler for protocol and had a steel trap memory for such things. Noting his surprise, Mrs. Kennedy whispered to him:


"Angie, I'm no longer the wife of a head of state."


Duke said he immediately left the room and wept.


So, don't be surprised if Mrs. Obama does not curtsy to the Queen.


Yes, it is true that George W. Bush held the Saudi monarch's hand and kissed his cheek. But hand holding by men is a common gesture of friendship, not subservience, in Arab culture, as is kissing of the cheek. And yes, Dick Cheney was awarded a medal by the Saudi monarch, and lowered his head so that medal could be draped from his neck on a ribbon. And receiving an honor is not the same as an immediate unreciprocated bow upon meeting a monarch for the first time.

There is no question that an unreciprocated bow is a gesture of subservience. Bowing is a very serious matter in many cultures. I have counseled hundreds of Western executives on the intricacies of bowing when dealing with Japanese business executives, stressing that an unreciprocated bow is a rude gesture of dominance. The body language is clear and unmistakable in all cultures.



Abe Greenwald of Commentary understands the symbolism:


Among Muslim democrats and human rights advocates, utter dejection that the "leader of the Free World" has offered himself as a "subject" of the Saudi monarch; among Islamists, bliss over America's seeming prostration before Salafist Islam; among international bad actors, assurance that America poses no threat; and among our allies, depression about the new systemic instability of the most dependable superpower in history.


The old saying that one picture is worth a thousand words is actually amplified when it comes to cross-cultural communication. I have little doubt that the Muslim world's media will not be as circumspect as their American mainstream colleagues in displaying the demi-prostration of the American leader carrying the name Hussein to the guardian of Islam's holiest cities.

Until evidence is produced that Barack Obama habitually bows and bends his knee before others, I will have to assume that he meant this gesture to carry meaning. It is simply amazing to me that our media will not even present this image to the American public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18QEKiPAZ8A&NR=1?


A utube clip and commentary about obama bowing....interesting - and no USA media picked this up...

Surprise surprise, no one wants to touch this one....just like the lefty media. Imagine if Bush had bowed to this Muslim King - It would have been front page news and lead the 11 oclock for days - todays media is no longer reporting - leave that to the undergound news on the web - todays media are religious prophets zealously promoting their guru Obamanation

And you thought George W. Bush was an idiot?? Why does the media cover for Obama when he makes a complete jackass of himself (no pun intended). Jackass. Perfect symbol of this party.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SDLwTdnqc

this is a question that only a cretin would ask. would Lincoln bow down to an Arab slaveowner King? i have no idea. but he married into a family of slaveowners, and his brother in law was a Confederate General.so, with all the cut and paste opinions of pundits the world over being run on this site daily by william, the only thing i can say to willie is GET OVER IT. the darkie won! if you are so miffed, go burn a cross on the White House lawn.

William, What ever is eating at you, Must be suffering horribly.

Sorry to disappoint - I enjoy life to the fullest ! But the USA is suffering and will be so much more in the next 4 years - mark this post - what I say is true!