This is exactly why we should have a pro wrestler as our next president; no bullshit, just piledriving foreign dignitaries..

Obama recently came to Japan as part of his asian tour. During his stay he met emperor Akihito, a short little man with a cute, but wrinkly, wife. Upon meeting the two shook hands and Obama also bowed to the emperor. A nice gesture, yes? Apparently not if you are a Republican or work at the fairest of fair networks, Fox News. Not surprisingly Sean Hannity doesn’t like it; but couldn’t that be because Hannity loves taking it from buffed D-loving gay men, feels embarrassed because of that and feels that he must take it out on Democrats? I don’t know, I’m just asking questions.

Is Sean Hannity a cross-dressing hooker in Thailand? Why won’t he tell us?

Fortunately, this isn’t the only True American™ that is outraged by this. Genuine Patriots like Bill Brasky Bennett also disagrees. Of course, there are people on youtube who are also angered that Obama would even try to respect any other culture. How dare he? Doesn’t he know that we are better than anyone else and that we will stay that way for all time? This is exactly why it’s important to have a whi, er Republican in office.

By the way, Hannity isn’t correct when he said that a newspaper in Japan refused to show the picture because they were embarrassed. However, there was probably no need for me to say that as you most likely knew that (I hope you don’t expect truth from someone like him).

You can read the story and comments at Japan Today or you can just read below if you don’t feel like clicking.

Photos of U.S. President Barack Obama bowing to Japan’s emperor have incensed critics in Washington, who said the U.S. leader should stand tall when representing America overseas.

Obama on Monday was in China, having wrapped up the Japan leg of his Asia trip two days earlier. But Washington’s punditocracy was still weighing whether or not the U.S. president had disgraced his country two days earlier by having taken a deep bow at the waist while meeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito.

Political talk shows have played and replayed the moment from the second day of Obama’s week-long Asia tour, which set the blogosphere on fire and chat show tongues wagging.

“I don’t know why President Obama thought that was appropriate. Maybe he thought it would play well in Japan. But it’s not appropriate for an American president to bow to a foreign one,” said conservative pundit William Kristol speaking on the Fox News Sunday program, adding that the gesture bespoke a United States that has become weak and overly-deferential under Obama.

Another conservative voice, Bill Bennett, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program: “It’s ugly. I don’t want to see it.”

“We don’t defer to emperors. We don’t defer to kings or emperors. The president of the United States—this coupled with so many apologies from the United States—is just another thing,” said Bennett.

Some conservative critics juxtaposed the image of Obama with one of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, who greeted the emperor in 2007 with a firm handshake but no bow.

“I’ll bet if you look at pictures of world leaders over 20 years meeting the emperor in Japan, they don’t bow,” Kristol said.

Some said the gesture was particularly grating coming after Obama’s bow to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at a G20 meeting in April.

The U.S. president’s Asia trip comes just over a year after he won election to the White House, and is designed to shore up U.S. power in a region increasingly dominated by rising giant China.

But back home, Obama’s bow in Japan seems to have grabbed much of the attention being paid to the trip.

The gesture appears to have touched a particularly raw nerve among Obama critics who said the president has hastened America’s decline as a world superpower by being too apologetic and too deferential in his dealings with other world leaders.

While most of the commentary about the bow in Japan was decidedly negative, some political observers, like longtime Democratic activist Donna Brazile, came to the president’s defense.

“I think it’s a gesture of kindness,” she told CNN, adding that the bow appeared intended to show “goodwill between two nations that respect each other.”

Meanwhile, an unnamed, senior Obama administration official told the Politico.com news site that the president had simply been observing protocol.

“I think that those who try to politicize those things are just way, way, way off base,” the official told Politico.

“I don’t think anybody who was in Japan—who saw his speech and the reaction to it, certainly those who witnessed his bilateral meetings there—would say anything other than that he enhanced both the position and the status of the U.S., relative to Japan,” Politico wrote.

“It was a good, positive visit at an important time, because there’s a lot going on in Japan.”