NYC Letter: Uncool And Stooped

UPDATE 04.04.09: Hot Air has made a video comparing Mr. Obama's different kowtow styles and debunks the notion that Mr. Obama was picking up loose change under the hem of King Abdullah's thawb.

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Day 73 of CHOPE

Canadians still bow to England's Queen; so do Australians. Americans shake hands. If not to stand eye-to-eye with royalty, what else were 1776 and all that about? ... [T]he "thou need not bow" commandment from the State Department's protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years.

The NYT musing on then-President Clinton
taking a dip to Emperor Akihito
June 19, 1994 (NYT)

Mr. Obama continues to ratchet down American primacy among nations. America is a peer -- and not first among peers -- just another let's-kick-the-can-around peer.

Waist tilt for the Queen. Oh, and an iPod. Thanks, but her majesty already has one.

IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
Or Lack Thereof

A full kowtow for the sand King. Should all that fabulous green energy not materialize, Mr. Obama here demonstrates his fallback, grovel for oil.

BOTTOMS UP
Yes, The Guy With His Bum In The Air
Is The President Of The United States

If America is no longer first among peers, then who? [We squint deeply into the Coalsack.] There's always France, eager to step up. [Long painfully stifled guffaw.]

CHOPE.

From cool and unstooped to uncool and stooped.