{"id":2034,"date":"2009-11-18T02:13:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2009-11-18T04:02:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:02:52","slug":"obama-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/11\/18\/obama-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowing &#8230; And Scraping Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News and all the usual wingnut suspects are simply horrified   because President Obama, in a show of diplomatic courtesy, bowed to Emperor Akihito of Japan.  This was a shocking and unprecedented show of weakness and subservience, according to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/11\/16\/805003\/-Fox-goes-on-the-warpath-over-a-bow\">sundry Obama bashers<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/xnerg.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/bow-gate.html\">Karl Rove, Steve Doocy, and Dick Cheney<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It seems only Republican Presidents are allowed such bows (Richard Nixon to  Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Dwight Eisenhower to Charles De Gaulle).<\/p>\n<p>But as far as I&#8217;m concerned, President Obama can bow to as many foreign leaders as he likes.   Although perhaps he should leave the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/11\/16\/804994\/-Americas-SHAME:-POTUS-Abases-Himself-to-Foreign-Leaders\">Saudi Prince lip-kissing and hand-holding to George W. Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Bowing &#8230; And Scraping Bottom<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Kissing princes and hand-holding&#8217;s fine<br \/>\nFor a Prez on the GOP line.<br \/>\nBut a bow from Obama<br \/>\nTo emp&#8217;rors  &#8212; what drama!<br \/>\nSuch nonsense, this sham wingnut-whine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News and all the usual wingnut suspects are simply horrified because President Obama, in a show of diplomatic courtesy, bowed to Emperor Akihito of Japan. This was a shocking and unprecedented show of weakness and subservience, according to sundry Obama bashers, including Karl Rove, Steve Doocy, and Dick Cheney. It seems only Republican Presidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,998,38,585,8,159,6,7,3,69],"tags":[999,1002,1007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}