So, KKKarl, was kissing and holding hands so much better than bowing?

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/16/rove-attacks-bowing/

This morning on Fox & Friends, former Bush adviser Karl Rove appeared on the program to bash President Obama for paying a respectful bow before the Japanese Emperor. Leading into the segment, co-host Steve Doocy claimed that there is a “long-standing precedent going back to the founding” of the U.S. that “American presidents don’t bow to anybody.” Doocy might want to do some research on President Eisenhower.

Calling the bow “inappropriate,” Rove wondered, “what’s that all about?” He added that Obama “simply can’t get it right” and that the bow is part of Obama’s “world-wide apology tour.” Rove concluded his assault with this final jab:

I think it’s best if American presidents do what they have always done — which is to stand for our small “r” republican values and do not bow to monarchies.

(snip)

It’s true. Unlike Obama, Bush did not have a general policy of showing respect to world leaders. Instead, he opted for a special policy of showing particularly reverent displays of affection toward monarchs he liked. Presumably, Rove would have no complaints had Obama kissed and held hands with the Japanese Emperor:

(end snip)

video and pictures at the link.

[deminks]

1. Or, perhaps backrubs are more respectful than bowing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/20/tech/main1823983.shtml

picture/video at the link.

[grasswire]

2. why DID Obama bow, anyway?

Which culture's protocol should prevail? The one that bows to show respect, or the one that says a citizen is equal to kings and potentates and therefore the citizen bows to no entity?

[CJCRANE]

3. When in Rome

do as the Romans do.

It pays to show respect when you're on someone else's turf.

[glitch]

4. Rove and the people who interview him without calling him on his shit

are creating their own surreality.

edit to add: Thank God we don't have to join them in it.