Awesome Article on why Obama should not have bowed
From Article Some of the president's critics are giving him a hard time, and it's true that this president seems never to have studied much American history. Not bowing to foreign potentates was what 1776 was all about. His predecessors learned with no difficulty that the essence of America is that all men stand equal and are entitled to look even a king, maybe particularly a king, straight in the eye. Can anyone imagine George Washington, John Adams or Thomas Jefferson making a similar gesture of servile submission? Or Harry Truman? Or FDR, who famously served the lowly hot dog,...
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Tags: 1776, American History, Fdr, George Washington, Gesture, Hard Time, Harry Truman, Hot Dog, John Adams, Potentates, Predecessors, Submission, Thomas Jefferson