Has President Obama learned a lesson from the derision in the American press, after he was seen to bow to a king, a queen and an emperor in 2009? According to Le Figaro writer Veronique Saint-Geours, if such an occasion arises again, it isn’t likely to be conducted before the cameras.
For Le Figaro, Veronique Saint-Geours writes in part:
His plunging at the foot of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2009 and the Emperor of Japan that same year earned him severe criticism from journalists in his country, who wanted allegiance shown to their president – still master of the world – before an “oil king” or emperor of a nation defeated in World War II. Astutely, this year, journalists discovered King Abdullah of Jordan and the 44th President sitting in the Oval Office. … We won’t see such greetings again.
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