obama approval rating...

[Shpira]

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It might be better to tackle them all at once so that there can't be enough media coverage on all of them considering they are all "un-american"

[superdave]

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Approval ratings in for June and Obama keeps dropping. Decent numbers still, but going down fast. I think the health care plan may be more than he can handle right now. It's a really large and complex problem.

[GreenLantern]

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The president is only a puppet for society. It wouldn't have mattered if McCain was in office, I believe it'd be the same....

[floridaorange]

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anyways, the fucker is past day 100. this thread should die.

NO THREAD FOR YOU!

[PROG]

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Obama bows to the same man that Bush kissed...ohhh boi

[speciale]

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No, and I'm no tough guy. My whole point is that playing the role of the tough guy is generally stupid. Most people I have known and seen who have presented themselves as tough guys are fairly dimwitted, pretentious meatheads. So none for me, thanks.

you dont have to be tough guy to show you are better or disagree with the other person. Some what, you need arrogance. Something which Obama has but fails to show it to other leaders. similar to speaking with a ceo of a good size company. Doesnt matter, the guy like bush had very little experience when taking office. Mistakes like this will happen.

anyways, the fucker is past day 100. this thread should die.

[Miroslav]

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Miro why is it when you have to get tough it is always John Wayne and macho men. Sometimes you have to be tough. Not sure when you would be the tough guy because you seem so paranoid about tough guys.

Were you picked on as a kid.. I`m just sayin.

No, and I'm no tough guy. My whole point is that playing the role of the tough guy is generally stupid. Most people I have known and seen who have presented themselves as tough guys are fairly dimwitted, pretentious meatheads. So none for me, thanks.

[runningman]

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Miro why is it when you have to get tough it is always John Wayne and macho men. Sometimes you have to be tough. Not sure when you would be the tough guy because you seem so paranoid about tough guys.

Were you picked on as a kid.. I`m just sayin.

[speciale]

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It's not like he grabbed his balls and sucked his dick. It's not like he gave the Saudis the original copy of the Constitution to use as toilet paper. It's not like he gave away the secret recipe to the Colonel's chicken. .

[floridaorange]

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Florida it was a return for rhetoric like this from DFN

I appreciate that...doesn't matter.

[Miroslav]

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^^ OK, maybe he shouldn't have bowed in Saudi Arabia. Yes, Saudi Arabia does not incorporate bowing into their culture the way that East Asian cultures do. And yes, Obama obviously did a little bow; he was probably trying to be polite and behave in the right way in a situation with which he wasn't familiar. And no, technically he didn't need to do that and if he could do it over again, he probably shouldn't.

But really at the end of the day... who gives a flying fuck?

It's not like he grabbed his balls and sucked his dick. It's not like he gave the Saudis the original copy of the Constitution to use as toilet paper. It's not like he gave away the secret recipe to the Colonel's chicken. It's not like the price of oil shot up 200% because of it. It's not like it worsened the recession and led to global instability. It's not like he started a war over it. It was just an awkward, silly, uncalled for gesture. Bush Sr. fucking barfed all over the Japanese prime minister at dinner back when he was president, and nobody started up impeachment proceedings over it.

Some people are all ready to blow a gasket and stab themselves in the eye over it... not to mention all the John Wayne generalizations of "I'M too proud and good to every bow anywhere, anytime, blah blah." Please. Cut the bullshit already.

It just. doesn't. fucking. matter. US reputation was certainly not damaged like it has been under the last eight years of shit failed policy, and national security was not compromised. I know that some of you on here feel that you must always disagree with everything / everyone that doesn't tow your rigid party line ideology, but can we find some more substantive things to critique? If Bush had done this, I wouldn't even have cared. Next time we'll be arguing about how he tied his fucking shoelaces in France...ridiculous.

[speciale]

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^runningman, who in your life speaks to you the way you are speaking in the above quote? Wife, Mom, Friend, Boss? They are wrong.

honestly, where is he wrong? not trying to start trouble, but what exactly did he say was wrong?


To everyone else on the bowing the Saudi Arabia. Some of us said, he should have not bowed to them. Others responded that it is the proper courtesy. However, the White House publicly stated, Obama did not bow. So I guess he is not as courteous or respectful to other countries customs. We all know, he did bow. So why later come out to deny it in a public statement? The guy is a magician who doesnt hide his secrets when performing his tricks.

[runningman]

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we aren't talking about japan we are talking about Saudi Arabia. They don't all bow to each other. They bow to the King. Obama didn't bow to the Queen of England. Also it wasn't a bow it was a grovel from the hips. A bow is a head knod.

Florida it was a return for rhetoric like this from DFN

"so get your head out of your ass. i'm tired of moronic posting in here..."

Grovel



I thought it was stupid to bow. It was even more stupid to deny you bowed when a pic was taken. What are we fools??

[Miroslav]

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yet again Miro and DFN are completely off their rockers.

Miro

Bowing is Protocol?!??? The hell it is. Sometimes I feel like I am living on a different planet when I read stupid comments like that. Why is it always about being Macho because you don't want to bow to someone?? So if your boss comes in tomorrow and says that you should bow to him you are saying you would?? That is what I am hearing.

runningman, perhaps you have been living under a rock (or on another planet) and need to join the 21st century

in your particular culture, bowing is not protocol. In other cultures, it very much is protocol. If you do business or engage in social interactions in Japan or Korea, bowing is still alive as a custom there today, as it has been for hundreds of years. This isn't my opinion; it is FACT.

You know, this may come as a shock to you, but not all cultures are exactly like yours. If you travel out of your country with that kind of an attitude, then foreign people will rightly view you as an arrogant, close-minded Western prick.

Go and get some cultural perspective and education before you come on here yapping your closed-minded shit at me - you and speciale both.

Your education starts here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowing_(social)

Bows are the traditional greeting in East Asia, more so in Korea and Japan than anywhere else. However, bowing is not reserved only for greetings. Bowing is a gesture of respect. Different bows are used for apologies and gratitude, to express different emotions, humility, sincerity, remorse, or deference, and in various traditional arts and religious ceremonies.

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2000.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2128081_politely-bow-japan.html

http://gojapan.about.com/cs/etiquetteinjapan/a/bowing.htm

[floridaorange]

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^runningman, who in your life speaks to you the way you are speaking in the above quote? Wife, Mom, Friend, Boss? They are wrong.