Did An American President Actually Bow Before A Saudi King?

One picture is worth a thousand words:

And here’s the link to the video, so you can watch the whole thing over and over while screaming, “THIS IS YOUR IDEA OF RESTORING AMERICAN PRESTIGE?”

It didn’t take long before the official denial: “Barack Obama did not show subservient fealty to that king, Mr. Abdullah…”

My favorite answers to Obama’s “I wasn’t bowing, I was…” are: 1) “I was just looking for the floor teleprompter.”  2) “I was preemptively ducking out of the way of flying footwear.”  And 3) “I only bowed because that French jerk Sarkozy told me that that’s what I was supposed to do!”

But Barack Obama’s handler’s may be right about Barry Hussein not bowing.  At least technically.

From Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language:

“Curtsy: a bow by women in recognition or respect, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.”

Let’s see: bent knees – check.  Lowered body – check.  Woman?  Well, that’s really pretty darned subjective, given Obama being our first true metrosexual president, and all.

Obama didn’t bow down before Saudi King Abdullah, contrary to the accusations by “the vast, right-wing conspiracy.”  He curtsied, which is the new metrosexual version of “a bow by any other name would smell as submissive.”

Many are saying Obama bowing down before the Saudi king shows weakness.  Like everyone didn’t already know Barack Obama was weak…

I suppose we can look to the bright side of all this: by figuratively placing himself – and therefore the United States of America – under the rule of Saudi Arabia, maybe this president won’t have any shoes thrown at him by angry Muslims.

Update: I’ve heard liberals claim that “Bush bowed, too.”  So I went to a liberal site and came across the following video offered as the “evidence.”

The video shows Bush leaning over to receive a medallion, not a bow.  It is no different than when I went to Hawaii and had a girl place a lei around my neck.  Then the SAUDI KING kisses Bush on both cheeks.  Afterward, Bush nods to the king, and to an unseen person off camera, the way I’ve seen him nod to friends on the White House lawn.

If this is all the liberals have to prove Bush bowing to the Saudi king, they are being disingenuous to the point of outright deceit.  Little Green Footballs, in an article entitled “Bush bowed too” provides the same video footage as the source above as their “evidence.”

When you go to Hawaii, do you “bow down” in homage before the girl greeting you?  Then Bush didn’t bow, either.

The last thing I would say is to those who don’t think it’s a big deal that Obama become the first president to bow down before a Saudi Arabian king.  Let me say this: it IS a big deal; bowing before a king is not merely a gesture of respect, but an acknowledgment of submission.  And given that Obama went on a global “apologize for America tour,” given that he announced that he believes American exceptionalism to be no more meaningful or valid than “British exceptionalism” or “Greek excetionalism”;  and given that he ceded much of American financial soveriegnty over to European control, Obama’s display of subservience to the leader of the Islamic world is beyond problematic.