Well, at least he didn't refer to them as "Your imperial Majesties," as Richard Nixon did during his 1971 meeting (in Alaska) with Hirohito and his wife. And he didn't puke on his host, like George H Bush did on the Japanese Prime Minister in 1992.
Conservatives would love to go back to the old days when guys like Obama would not even be admitted to the local country club, much less represent our nation as the Leader of the free world. They yearn for the days when people knew the rules and knew their place.
They were silent as GW Bush alienated everyone in the solar system with his swaggering cowboy approach to world politics. You are either with us or with the terrorists! Hey Fraulein, how about a little neck massage. Talk about embarrassing.
These macho keyboard warriors, most of whom have managed to evade any form of national service, ironically urge the most bellicose position for the US (which policy would be enforced by your son, not theirs) call themselves patriots and accuse anyone who disagrees with narrow views and their stiff-pants arrogance as "America haters." This is amusing because it is the neocons who actually despise the majority of their countrymen.
Instead of imagining a world where nations try to coexist, conservatives prefer the world filled with strife. The mantra "We're number one and the rest of you suck!" is a losing slogan for the next century. Sabre rattling and waterboarding will not stop terrorism.
"My flag must be higher than your flag," they say to the world. Apparently, they have not learned the lessons of history: all empires fall, the world must change, and conservatives because of their rigidity always lose to progressives in the end.
What conservatives fail to comprehend is that their view of a black and white, zero-sum, right and wrong world is flawed, because it leads logically to doomsday. If Obama errs a little by being too polite how much damage can that cause?
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Isn't it funny that all the Bush-bashers have turned into Obama apologists? I suppose when he and his cronies opt to burn Old Glory that they will say "but it was cold out ..." And since "all empires (sic) fall" what is a few centuries more or less?
A Keyboard Warrior
Funny is when people pedantically use (sic) inappropriately
Isn't it funny that all the people who never noticed the mountains of steaming shit amassed by the Cheney-Bush administration, now critique the scent and timbre of every Obama fart?
When you cannot see the cemetery for the flags, it's time to get your vision thing fixed.
Main Entry: em·pire
Pronunciation: \ˈem-ˌpī(-ə)r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French empire, empirie, from Latin imperium absolute authority, empire, from imperare to command — more at emperor
Date: 14th century
1 a (1) : a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority; especially : one having an emperor as chief of state (2) : the territory of such a political unit b : something resembling a political empire; especially : an extensive territory or enterprise under single domination or control
MAYBE CAPT./DEN ARE ANTICIPATING AGAIN? (ARE YA'LL SUGGESTING THAT B.O. FARTED WHEN HE WAS BOWING TO THE EMPEROR (sic) OF JAPAN?)
You'll notice that Akhito was bowing also, although not as deeply as Obama. (Obama may have been a bit too enthusiastic. Sort of like when Bush held hands with and kissed a Saudi Prince.)
Let's stick to criticizing Obama on substantive issues, like why he continues to rely on ex-Wall Street operatives with a bias for protecting masters of the universe to fix the economy while barely addressing the fact that a large segment of the population can't even find a job.
You fail to explain your inappropriate ripost to the post that appropriately used the term empire - read your own definition.
Perhaps criticizing Obama's continued bowing to foreign potentates is equivalent to the dissing of Bush because of the way he pronounced "nuclear". Nah! much worse.
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