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The Hidden ‘Arrogance’ Behind Obama’s Royal Bow: Global Geographic Times, China
Posted by WILLIAM KERNNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
What is the significance of President Obama’s habit of bowing to foreign royalty? Continuing with our coverage of China’s reaction to president Obama’s Asia tour, Diguo Zhunjiang for China’s state-controlled Global Geographic Times asserts that while this results in a great loss of face for the United States, he warns his readers not to be lulled into a sense of complacency by Obama’s apparent shows of respect.
For China’s Global Geographic Times, Diguo Zhunjiang...
Here Is Why Chris Matthews Drives Me CRAZY
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
It’s not his opinions or the fact he’s a boot-licker. It’s not his sexism or that he switches positions depending on who looks like the winner at the moment.
“Is Sarah Palin Qualified To Be President?”
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Chris Matthews just put that question to Judd Gregg on Hardball. Gregg’s answer:
“I’m Sending Out This Invocation…”
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Jackson Browne sings about his imagination:
Could We Win if We Had to Fight World War II Today? (Guest Voice)
Posted by Guest VoiceNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Could we Win if We Had to Fight World War II Today?
by Rick Moran
The debate over “The Greatest Generation” and whether the way America is today could duplicate their stunning achievements in winning two wars and fighting through a depression while maintaining unity has been hashed and rehashed by far superior minds than mine.
But I just can’t help thinking about it after watching the History Channel this week and their excellent series, “Word War II in HD.”
If you...
Why Republicans Should Vote Yes Tomorrow
Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant EditorNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
We’ve reached a point where my friend Ed Morrissey and I must come to a parting of the ways on the current health care debate, though we’ve seen eye to eye on most portions of it up until now. Tomorrow, the Senate will face a procedural vote to open debate on their version of the bill. Note: This is not a vote on the bill itself, signaling approval or disapproval. It’s simply a vote to allow debate to begin.
Ed is urging his readers to melt the phones and get their Senators to vote...
Sarah Palin Loves Meat
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 20th, 2009 | Comments Off
So many tasty morsels so many are uncovering. (All that and not one link to Andrew Sullivan. I’ll spend Saturday enjoying his finds.) One topic Sarah touches on that’s relevant to my interest in food is her love of meat. From page 18:
I love meat. I eat pork chops, thick bacon-burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou.
Note, especially, the medium-well-done. Sarah’s confident that those few liberals who still eat meat...
On the Military Draft and True Patriotism
Posted by DORIAN DE WINDNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
I have frequently written on patriotism, “supporting the troops,” the cost of war as measured in “bullets and dollars” and, most important, on the cost of war as measured by the sweat, blood, tears and lives of our valiant troops. This, while Americans back home are not asked to sacrifice in any meaningful manner, and are even encouraged to “go shopping.”
My words, however, are woefully inadequate when compared to a powerful, heart-rending article that appears today in my hometown newspaper.
The...
Oprah’s Kissoff
Posted by ROBERT STEINNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Now that she has smooched you-know-who this week, the talented Ms. Winfrey is ready to end the talk show that made her a billionaire and start the next phase of her life as a media mogul with a cable channel aptly named OWN.
Like the would-be VP but for much longer and in a far different way, Oprah has been a phenomenon, rising from the depths of poverty to become an American icon with empathy, intelligence and enthusiasm, an Everywoman in constant battles to control her emotional life as well as...
On Civil Rights, Virginia Foxx Revises History to Make Republicans Look Good
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant EditorNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Is Rep. Virginia Foxx crazy? I don’t know, but she certainly says some crazy things. Consider a couple of things she said yesterday:
– “Actually, the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this country.”
Maybe, if you go all the way back to the days of Teddy Roosevelt. More recently, the GOP is the party of global warming denialism and opposition to environmental legislation generally.
– “Just as we were the people who passed the civil...
AP on Sarah Palin’s Book: ‘A Literary Treasure Hunt’
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
The story behind the much-heralded Associated Press fact check was detailed in a weekly internal newsletter to the company’s 4,000 employees. TPMDC snagged a copy:
Mike Oreskes, a senior managing editor, offers staffers a description of the AP’s own work tracking down and fact checking the book and it reads like a spy thriller:
“The AP was determined to get the first copy,” Oreskes wrote, detailing how the writers learned a store had “inadvertently placed the book on...
Geithner’s Welcome Expired Long Ago
Posted by MARC PASCALNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
I told you so 7 months ago in my TMV post dated 3/19/09 and titled “It’s Time to Throw Geithner under the Bus.” Considering the growing chorus from the left, right and middle now calling for his termination or resignation, I re-read my original post. As always, I was prescient, accurate, and possibly clairvoyant on this matter.
Yours truly also predicted this entire economic collapse at least 5 years ago, but no one took me seriously. Prophets are never appreciated or heeded in their own...
The Stakes in Afghanistan
Posted by Guest VoiceNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Guest post by J.F. Murphy
J.F. Murphy is a former Marine infantry officer and Iraq veteran who graduated from the U.S. Navy’s SERE program. He is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project.
After nearly two months of deliberation, some have criticized the Obama Administration of foot-dragging a decision on Afghanistan. As a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, I could not disagree more. If the previous administration had put such care into its approach toward Iraq and Afghanistan, we might...
Addiction to Growth is China’s ‘Berlin Wall’: Global Geographic Times, People’s Republic of China
Posted by WILLIAM KERNNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Can President Obama persuade China not to be so dependent on growth, particularly trade-dependent growth? Likening Beijing’s obsession with growth to a Chinese version of the ‘Berlin Wall,’ Feng Mengyun of China’s state-run Global Geographic Times expresses his hope that President Obama can do something to talk the Beijing leadership into turning over a new leaf.
With some surprising criticism of the regime, Feng Mengyun writes for the Global Geographic Times in part:
“Prior...
Geithner Must Go
Posted by MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN, Wall Street ColumnistNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Today’s New York Times featured two columns about Tim Geithner. The one by Paul Krugman panned him for his role in the A.I.G. bailout. The one by David Brooks praised him for his efforts saving the financial system.
Both columns keyed off his testimony yesterday before a House panel. I saw clips of that encounter and got some pretty clear insights about the way our Treasury Secretary thinks. They convinced me the man must go.
What made this so obvious was Geithner’s response to a query...
New Zealand Poised To Enter “Space Race” With ATEA-1 rocket
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
A sign of the times: New Zealand is now poised to become the latest country to enter the space rase, 3News reports:
New Zealand is about to enter the space race with a private venture which aims to cash in on the market for scientific research.
A Kiwi company has not only built its own rocket, but designed the fuel to blast it 120km straight up.
In a bunker in Parnell, Auckland, ATEA-1 is preparing to rise to the occasion.
The six-metre rocket will see New Zealand become the 13th member of the space...
America: The Debt-Ridden Land of Pointy Partisan Fingers
Posted by POLIMOMNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana), writing in CNN, says he plans to oppose raising the debt ceiling what the issue comes up for a vote next month. He’s unwilling to raise this ceiling, he writes, unless “Congress adopts a credible process to balance our books and eliminate the red ink” — and he wants to form a “debt commission” to start the process.
A debt commission will force members of Congress to take — or reject — a single gulp of politically...
Return of the Election Beast from NY-23
Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant EditorNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Just when you thought it was safe to step out of the ballot booth, the hotly contested special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District simply will not die. The latest ripple in the story is that a computer virus reportedly infected a handful of machines in Hamilton County.
Cathleen Rogers, the Democratic Elections Commissioner in Hamilton County stated that they discovered a problem with their voting machines the week prior to the election and that the “virus” was fixed...
NATIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (NIP)
Posted by MARC PASCALNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
While many proposed infrastructure expenditures are long-overdue and greatly needed across our country, most of the projects will take years to plan, design, meet various regulatory requirements, and build. Associated new employment will be well-paying but cannot materialize quickly. Furthermore, they constitute a long-term policy for the country separate from the immediate need to address high unemployment across every sector of the U.S. economy.
With high official unemployment and unofficial...
Abortion and Health Care Reform
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Abortion has been a part of human existence since human beings first took their place on earth. There have always been women who needed to end pregnancies, for uncountable reasons — and there always will be. Moreover, abortions have not always and in all places been illegal. As Jeffrey Toobin points out in a very trenchant comment published in The New Yorker (and this is something I’ve known for years), abortion in this country — both in colonial times and after the formation of...
The Great Performers: Cole Porter Sings “You’re the Top”
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
The great American composer Cole Porter also knew how to perform and sell his own songs. Here he is singing one of his clever “list lyric” songs, “You’re the Top,” composed for the 1934 Broadway show “Anything Goes.” This You Tube has a great “visual guide” to his list lyric. Enjoy:
Republican House Member Misrepresents History On Civil Rights Legislation
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 20th, 2009 | Comments
Republican House member (from North Carolina) Virginia Foxx, it is pretty safe to say, has never met a fact she could not challenge. This morning, Rep. Foxx launched an attack on what she calls “revisionist history” about which political party should get the credit for passing historic civil rights legislation in the 1960s….. by engaging in her own revisionist history — which was immediately challenged by an outraged Dennis Cardoza (D-CA):
What Can We Learn from the Ft. Hood Massacre?
Posted by JIM BELLNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
During Word War II we interned many Japanese and German Americans into camps to prevent the effectiveness of however many spies and espionage agents that those two countries may have had in our country at the time. These days, however, we are not doing anything like that. Not that we should be interning Arab Americans in camps while we are involved in this war against radical Islam, but the Ft. Hood incident should at least serve as a warning sign that we are too lax when it comes to acting on...
Poll: 52% of Republicans Think ACORN Stole Election For Obama
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
Before you read this story, play this video below to set the proper mood:
Now read this poll:
Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat.
The Republican base is with him though. PPP’s newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election...
New breast exam guidelines gaslight women out of life-saving health practices
Posted by JILL MILLER ZIMONNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
The story of Stephanie Spielman, wife of Ohio State University and NFL star Chris Spielman, mother of four children, who was a 30 year old woman 12 years ago who gave herself a self-breast exam and discovered a lump that she then had examined and screened, died of breast cancer today at age 42.
Her story represents the stories that I dread will become absolutely the norm and her story represents the stories that other women who are unhappy with the new guideline recommendations about breast cancer...
Oprah To End Her Talk Show
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” will end in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own. Media Decoder:
A spokeswoman for Ms. Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, confirmed Thursday evening that Ms. Winfrey would make an announcement on her show on Friday. The plans were first reported by WABC, the ABC station in New York City.
“The sun will set on the Oprah show as its 25th season draws to a close on Sept. 9, 2011,” Tim Bennett, the president of Harpo, said in a message to...
Byrd: An American Life
Posted by ROBERT STEINNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
Tomorrow, he turns 92 after passing another milestone as the longest-serving member of Congress in history, almost 57 years.
With such longevity, Sen. Robert Byrd embodies almost a century of American history that transformed a nation of backwaters dotted by big cities into a metropolitan sprawl with access to 24/7 knowledge about the whole world.
Byrd, a self-made man if there ever was one, started as a gas jockey and butcher in West Virginia during World War II, who discovered a taste and talent...
Sad Obesity Story
Posted by PATRICK EDABURNNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
This story is just plain sad on so many levels.
Diplomacy
Posted by CAGLE CARTOONSNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant
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You Give Me Expanded Coverage; I’ll Give You Cost Control
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
Ezra Klein reads over 2,000 pages of legislative language so you don’t have to. His conclusion: This bill is a “grand bargain” that achieves impressive levels of coverage while still cutting costs:
Elizabeth Warren Profiled
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
Warren suggested a Financial Product Safety Commission in a 2007 article; Obama proposed it to Congress in June as the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Speculation is (wishes?) she could head the agency. Bloomberg.com profiles her life:
Warren began at George Washington at 17. At 19, she married mathematician Jim Warren, who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and finished her degree at the University of Houston. They divorced in 1978. Her second husband, Bruce Mann, is Harvard’s...
Setting Premiums for Publicly-Subsidized Healthcare Coverage – Additional Concerns
Posted by MARC PASCALNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
National Healthcare Insurance Reform has moved a bit closer to reality, though it could still be derailed in the Senate. We now have a House Bill and a Senate Bill that will have to be merged into a single bill via an appointed Joint Conference Committee. The committee members will be chosen by Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi so a final bill can be written and voted upon by the Senate and House, and finally sent to President Obama for his signature. With both bills setting...
Guliani To Run For Senate ?
Posted by PATRICK EDABURNNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
According to emerging news reports Rudy Guliani has decided not to run for Governor of New York but will instead run for the US Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Spokespeople for Rudy have neither confirmed or denied these reports, simply saying that he will “inform New Yorkers on his own”.
The Fake Date-Rape Drug Epidemic
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
A study of 200 students published in the British Journal of Criminology found that many wrongly blame the effects of a “bad night out” on date-rape drugs when, in fact, they just drank too much. Some are in “active denial” and fears of date-rape drugs are so pervasive that students think it happens more often than the abuse as a consequence of drugs, binge drinking, or walking alone at night.
The Telegraph headlines its story, date-rape drink spiking ‘an urban legend’:
Among...
1993 All Over Again?
Posted by MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN, Wall Street ColumnistNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
In 1992 Bill Clinton’s campaign was built around the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid.” That’s what voters cared about. Bush One’s failure in that realm was what got Clinton elected.
In 1993 the newly elected President Clinton came into office and focused on health care reform. His efforts there flopped, and the rest of his presidency pretty much flopped as well.
Which brings us to 2008. Candidate Obama largely got elected on Bush Two’s economic bungling....
U.S. and Beijing Disagree on Obama’s Chinese Name: Global Geographic Times, China
Posted by WILLIAM KERNNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
According to this blog entry from the Web site of China’s Global Geographic Times, a U.S. Embassy request that China use a new spelling of Obama’s Chinese name has been met with suspicion among that nation’s ‘Netizens.’
So what’s in a name, one might ask?
For the Global Geographic Times, Scholar Jiang Huai writes in part:
“On November 12, officials at the U.S. Embassy in China told reporters that the U.S. president’s name had been changed. (The president’s...
TV Review: HBO’s ‘Terror In Mumbai’ (Six Stars out of Five)
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
There’s the cliched phrase: “It’s like watching a train wreck.” In “Terror in Mumbai,” which airs tonight 8 pm ET/PT on HBO, you get to see what no documentary has shown before: a “360 degree view” of a multi-pronged terrorist act, seen partly and genuinely from the terrorists point view. The reason: “Terror in Mumbai” uses actual cell phone instructional conversations during the attack given to the terrorists in the field by a shadowy...
Daily Show Is Serious About Media Criticism
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
With Joe Biden Tuesday, Lou Dobbs last night, and Hannity caught faking the news last week*, The Daily Show continues on it’s long hot roll. Here’s a Poytner look inside the most effective media criticism shop in America:
“I feel like there are lot of critics of the government but there are very few critics of the media who have an audience and are credible and keep a watch on things,” said “Daily Show” writer Elliott Kalan. “That’s a role that we...
Meet the New Boss… prizes for Obama donors
Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
No matter what you may have hoped, some things never change. The intro to this Politico piece really tells the whole story.
He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors.
Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since Obama’s Inauguration, 56 percent were given to political appointees and 44 percent have gone to career diplomats, according to records...
Healing Power Of Indian Curries
Posted by SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International ColumnistNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
On my trips abroad, I have rarely found an Indian restaurant that would satisfy my native taste buds. In the West, there has been a “curry” revolution and its impact has been the most in Britain. However, there is a growing realization that Indian cooking is not just meant to set your tongue on fire or titillate the palate, it actually mixes common sense with the ancient science of Ayurveda, gaining popularity as alternative medicine.
“Ever since the first British curry house...
Health Care: Presidential Popularity vs. Constituent Wishes
Posted by PETE ABEL, Managing EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
The NYT published today a fascinating (and somewhat frustrating) look at health care reform’s supporters and detractors in Congress, by FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver and two co-authors. Their thesis:
Critics of the health care reform plan often refer to it derisively as “ObamaCare.” On the policy merits, this is highly questionable: the White House has taken a hands-off approach toward the legislation that recently passed in the House and the Senate version that Harry Reid unveiled...
Sarah Palin’s Mammoth Book Tour
Posted by CAGLE CARTOONSNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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More Twisted Than Terrorist
Posted by ROBERT STEINNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
The more we learn about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the thinner the line stretches between ideology and mental illness, and the more troubling is the question of why, surrounded by psychiatrists, his potential for violence was not sufficiently recognized to remove him from his position as a healer of trauma victims.
Yesterday brings a report that “military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to ‘war crimes’...
Fox News Airs Misleading Old Footage Again
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
This time when talking about the crowds Sarah Palin is attracting. (Oops!)
ABC Reports C.I.A. “Black Site” Found in Lithuania
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
This is just incredible:
The Senate Health Care Bill Has Been Released
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURGNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
The entire text is online. It’s 2,074 pages. Via Ron Chusid, who has a reading plan:
Adam Lambert: Out, But Not THAT Out
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology EditorNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
“I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear I’m gay… I’ve been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man. I’ve been at clubs drunk making out with somebody in the corner. I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just another part of me.”
That from Adam Lambert in a Rolling Stone cover story interview shortly after he was named the American Idol runner-up last June. Lambert, a singer said to know “his own inner David...
The GOP’s No-Exit Strategy (Guest Voice)
Posted by E.J. DIONNE, JR., WASHINGTON POST COLUMNISTNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
WASHINGTON — Normal human beings — let’s call them real Americans — cannot understand why, 10 months after President Obama’s inauguration, Congress is still tied down in a procedural torture chamber trying to pass the health care bill Obama promised in his campaign.
Last year, the voters gave him the largest popular vote margin won by a presidential candidate in 20 years. They gave Democrats their largest Senate majority since 1976 and their largest House majority...
It’s Time To Lighten Up: With a Classic Pie-Fight
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 19th, 2009 | Comments
And who better to extricate us (for a while) from the name-calling of modern politics than the Three Stooges (who now seem civilized in comparison):
FOOTNOTE: A lot of their work is available on DVD.
New Breast Exam Guidelines
Posted by CAGLE CARTOONSNov 18th, 2009 | Comments
John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri
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When Bush dithered on Iraq
Posted by DAVID ADESNIKNov 18th, 2009 | Comments
Jackson Diehl:
[After months of deliberation in 2006], no one accused George W. Bush of dithering. So why does Barack Obama keep hearing the taunt as he deliberates about Afghanistan — and why do even some who sympathize with his dilemma find it hard to shake the feeling that this commander in chief lacks resolve?
One part of the answer is easy: Bush was renowned for summoning plenty of resolve, and not enough critical thinking. No one questioned that Bush’s heart was in his bid for...
“You Can’t Vote Against Healthcare and Call Yourself a Black Man”
Posted by POLIMOMNov 18th, 2009 | Comments
Geeeesum! Could Jesse Jackson be more insulting with this?
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
What Jackson apparently means is, you can’t think for yourself and call yourself a black...
Sherlock Holmes is on the case
Posted by DAVID ADESNIKNov 18th, 2009 | Comments
Andrew Sullivan informs his readers that he is taking a brief pause to pore over Sarah Palin’s new book:
Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin’s unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning – specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy – we feel it’s vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything...
The netroots eat their own
Posted by DAVID ADESNIKNov 18th, 2009 | Comments
On Monday, Think Progress trashed liberal pundit Mark Shields for allegedly saying, with regard to Obama’s patience on Afghanistan,
[It] makes me nostalgic for those days when we had a manly man in the White House who could say, “Let’s kick some tail and ask questions afterwards” you know? That’s what we really need instead of any reflection.
Kevin Drum read TP’s post and seconded the motion, albeit with more circumspection and less vitriol. But to his credit, Kevin read the...
Quote of the Day: On Barack Obama’s Bow
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-ChiefNov 18th, 2009 | Comments
Our political/diplomatic Quote of the Day comes via Professor John Brown’s must-read Public Diplomacy and Press Blog – where he points us to a post by Steven W. Lewis on the Baker Institute Blog dealing with President Barack Obama’s bow to the Japanese Emperor.
This bow became the target of (what else?) a political controversy in the United States where Obama’s critics accused him of displaying weakness, deferring too much to an Emperor, displaying incompetent diplomacy. Etc....
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