…and calling them a bunch of 'mos should really get them angry.
That guy must go back a ways; I haven’t seen a good Stan Freberg reference in ages.
Yeah, well, you know what else was good at getting people inflamed?
Jock itch.
Ahh, not really.
There was, indeed, a time when that mattered, when America was the revolutionary young upstart, challenging The Way Things Are, and leading the world to The Way Things Can Be. That time is long gone, and so are the monarchs.
Monarchs in the sense of rulership simply no longer applies, it would be appropriate for America to defy the power of monarchs, perhaps, but only so far as they actually have any. When monarchy becomes merely a nostalgic decoration for a country’s heritage, denying any sign of submission to a monarch is like kicking an animatronic Hitler in the balls. Ball. Whatever.
For my two bits, I’d much rather see Barry bow ten times to the Japanese Emperor than stand in the presence of Robert Mugabe and not bitch slap him across the room.
A question for those who think that Obama should not bow to a foreign monarch:
Should foreigners bow to the U.S., either literally (when their leader meets ours) or metaphorically (forgoing their own interests and decision making in support of ours)?
I am reminded of the build up to the current invasion of Iraq. There was much criticism of the french for not deferring to our decision and contributing troops to the coalition. They had a revolution, too, and said goodbye to monarchy. Does that earn them the right to make their own decisions?
Just popping in to see if Martin Hyde or Starving Artist has supplied a link to the official protocol against bowing yet.
No?
Not yet?
Only if their decisions agree with OUR decisions, because we went in and saved their cheese-eating surrendermonkey asses and if it weren’t for us they’d be speaking German.
At least I think that’s how it’s supposed to go. Speaking moonbat isn’t an easy task.
I note Obama wants the US and China to hold additional discussions on human rights next year. Do you laugh or cry?
Wait, wait, wait … I thought the liberals were the moonbats? If this has changed, I DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Yes. Liberals are moonbats (which I think is a corruption of George Monbiot’s name); conservatives are wingnuts (short for right-wing nut).
I plead confusion from trying to espouse a point of view tenuously connected with reality.
Okay, good. Because I was just called a “hysterical liberal moonbat” the other day and I needed to clear up whether I was supposed to be offended or not. (Plus, “hysterical liberal wingnut” just doesn’t sound … correct.)
Only temporarily, and they’ve had a couple of emperors and an occupation-collaborating regime along the way as well.
Still, the fact that they invented oral sex should earn them the gratitude of the nations.
How I long for the days when cheese eating surrender monkeys and Freedom Fries were cited in earnest on here. Oh the jokes . . . wonderful times, nothing at all provicial or parochial about that kind of stuff at all.
And so did the Swedes, choosing Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (one of Napoleon’s marshals) in 1810.
Also, they didn’t break…we kicked them out! Yeah…that’s what happened mutter
My understanding is, it is perfectly proper to bow to the Tenno, and it is more or less proper nowadays for a fellow head of state to shake his hand; but doing both at once is unheard-of. Still, the Japanese don’t seem to mind. Tempest in a cha-pot.
Heads of state don’t bow, not even to the Emperor of Japan. Period.
Oh, no, not ever.