  Jackson Williams: Obama Bows, Conservatives Bitch, Reality Bites
Reported by Huffington Post on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 (on November 17, 2009)
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In the 1980\'s, billionaire conservative gadfly Ross Perot received the prestigious Winston Churchill Award at a lavish Dallas dinner. Prince Charles himself came across the pond for the event, and local high society, Republican to a fault, rushed around town in the two weeks beforehand booking lessons in how to curtsy in front of royalty.
Never mind that America fought a war to escape British tyranny. The social set is big on ceremony, and this was as big as it gets.
Fast forward a quarter-century. President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic. The host of the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, Steve Doocy, prattled on about how Americans haven\'t bowed in over 200 years. Yeah, right.
Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden wrote in his November 17 column that the president\'s predilection for bowing is because \"he was sired by a Kenyan father\" and \"born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World, and thus \"has no natural instinct or blood impulse\" for what this nation represents.
Does he mean \"sired\" as in the breeding term for animals? Little doubt.
As we see from the images below, Eisenhower bowed before De Gaulle (a Frenchman, sacré bleu!), Nixon bowed before Emperor Hirohito (who\'d ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor), and George W. Bush kissed the Saudi Arabian King on the mouth.
I\'d say mouth-to-mouth beats a bow any day, how about you?
Even Bob Dylan, arguably the world\'s most famous Jewish artist, bowed before a seated and throned Pope John Paul ll after performing in his Holy presence.
Yet when Obama does it, right-wing heads explode. What blithering, racist fools these mortals be.
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