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**Scukonah** · 11-17-2009, 11:49 PM

The criticism seems to be from two main camps. The first camp criticises Obama for bowing too low, which I don't think really matters. Bowing's hard enough to do in a dojo let alone with a few billion people watching you. The Japanese emperor may have assisted him in saving face by lowering his bow, but hey, what are you going to to do? The second camp is critising him for bowing at all, to that I say who cares? I seriously doubt Akihito is going to go to bed tonight thinking "well, now the US is subserviant to Japan"

11-17-2009, 11:49 PM	#6
Scukonah Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	The criticism seems to be from two main camps. The first camp criticises Obama for bowing too low, which I don't think really matters. Bowing's hard enough to do in a dojo let alone with a few billion people watching you. The Japanese emperor may have assisted him in saving face by lowering his bow, but hey, what are you going to to do? The second camp is critising him for bowing at all, to that I say who cares? I seriously doubt Akihito is going to go to bed tonight thinking "well, now the US is subserviant to Japan"
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