When is a Bow not a Bow?

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:20 pm

Why when Alfred E. bows to the Saudi King in a most groveling manner, gets criticized and then has to come up with some lame reason:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/ ... Saudi.html

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:34 pm

Well, I guess that is canceled by his wife putting her arm around the queen.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:11 pm

He wasn't wearing a sleeveless dress.

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:23 pm

I don't know much about foreign etiquette, but that seemed more like an informal bow rather than a normal bow, more like \"Hey, Barack Obama, President of the United States, how are you?\", rather than \"Good afternoon King whatever\". I don't know, could of been a serious thing.

...I really don't like the Saudis, nor their Saudi Arabia. Screw the Persian theocracy, that place is as if in an alternate history Hitler was an arab muslim in the middle east.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:30 pm

I think you're confusing Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudi Arabia is predominantly Arab, whereas Iran is predominantly Persian.

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:39 pm

Jeff250 wrote:I think you're confusing Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudi Arabia is predominantly Arab, whereas Iran is predominantly Persian.

I was referring to Saudi Arabian government being much worse than the Iranian Government, although I guess they are on about the same wavelength...

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:11 am

Verb 1. bow down - get into a prostrate position, as in submission

2. bow down - bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; \"He bowed before the King\"; \"She bowed her head in shame\"

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:42 pm

OMG he greeted the Saudi king the same way every other president in recent history did! LIBERAL MONSTER!

flip · Post by **flip** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:38 pm

Whoever's head is lower.

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:30 am

You could argue the President of the United Stats is the humblest/lowest servent of servents...

When is a Bow not a Bow?

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