Barack Obama Bows To Saudi King Abdullah - President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.
'I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States,' writes Clarice Feldman in an American Thinker commentary. The situation developed as leaders of the world attending the G20 summit in London assembled for a photograph to mark the event. In this first image, after the king extended his hand while Obama approached, Obama bends from the waist until his head is nearly at the monarch's waist. Make me sick! Israel newspaper commented like this: "Obama kowtows to the Saudi monarch, 11 of whose subjects perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Obama still thinks that the Palestinians want a European-style democratic state and has not learned that Hamas champions a state that would be more like Iran than Jordan. He thinks that all Turks share the Islamic aspirations of the Erdogan government and ignores the millions of secular Turks for whom his positive remarks about Islam were a knife in the back." The author suggests that, "Obama is still a rookie," and adds that, "Until he learns something about the Islamic world he is liable to mistakes that will cost many lives, just like his predecessors did."