I Think I Finally Get It.

Muser — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:37:34 +0000

I think this picture finally crystalizes for me what is wrong with our president.

President Obama is learning disabled.
That’s it. It explains everything.
Few now remember back earlier this year when the President met with Queen Elizabeth. He did not bow at that time. And correctly so. There was a bit of a kerfuffle about the First Lady patting the Queen on the back like she was some little old lady visiting a Senate office looking for help with her Social Security checks, but Michelle is not the issue right now.

Only a few more remember President Obama, back on April 1st, going ahead and bowing to King Abdullah. This was a disaster. And the White House knew it, going to great lengths to deny it was was a bow. “He was leaning over to look the shorter man in the eye!” they said. “He stumbled,” they said. “The dog ate his homework, then barfed it on the floor in front of the King. The President still hoped to hand it in,” they said.
Now look. Bowing to Abdullah was a bad slip, both for the President and for the country. It was in the national interest for the White House and State Department to deny it happened, no matter how implausibly. And I can even give the President some slack for making the bow. He has so little experience with foreign affairs, that a slip like this, especially with a monarch he respects and from whom he wants much, was understandable. It was terrible symbolism, but I thought it OK for everyone to move on, learn, and let live.
Then this happens last night.
The first time the President bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, I can put it down to a mistake. We all pretend it didn’t happen, and he doesn’t do it again.
Now the President bows even more obviously to the Emperor of Japan? That’ll lose you most of the over 70 vote you still had left, Mr. Obama!
More to the point, it was a second, identical mistake! When you embarrass yourself massively in front of everyone who knows you (in the President’s case, that is quite a large pool of people), don’t you file that mistake away in your head and resolve to never do it again? Yes you do. So do I.
But you and I aren’t learning disabled. (CY knows what I’m saying.)
Damn. Now we can’t make fun of him any more. It’s not only politically incorrect to make fun of the slow learners, it’s simply heartless.

For a good roundup of posts on this subject, take a gander at American Power.

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I Think I Finally Get It.