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https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/bush-also-bowed-to-saudi-king/ https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/bush-also-bowed-to-saudi-k... People made a lot more fuss ab
by ncmncm 4y ago
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/bush-also-bowed-to-saudi-king/ https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/bush-also-bowed-to-saudi-k...
People made a lot more fuss about Obama because, you know, "Barack Hussein Obama", etc. Trump was seen doing it too.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoIf so, then you singling out W seems... a bit slanted. But if those three did, then did earlier presidents, and they just weren't documented? Or weren't made a big deal of when they did?
- ncmncm 4y agoW did it first. So, no, citing W doing it first is not "slanted". Instead, claiming that Obama and Trump also violating their public trust makes my observation "slanted" is actively dishonest: I said that W did it first, and W did it first. Period.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agohttps://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/to-bow-or-not-to-bow-in-japan/ https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/to-bow-or-not... HW, not W. And maybe others before; HW is just the first I found a reference to. (Also Clinton.) So it seems to have happened a lot more than I thought...
- ncmncm 4y agoBowing to someone who bows back is just a greeting.