Here we go again. President Obama bowed to the Chinese President and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao, when they met in Washington yesterday. This latest bow comes after a string of previously humiliating and ridiculous Bama bows: to the Saudi king, the Japanese emperor, and (my favorite) the Mayor of Tampa, Florida.
After all of this deferential bowing, the Saudis are still supporting and exporting Islamic terrorism and radicalism and the Japanese are still in our face about our military bases there. I’m pretty sure Tampa must still have some sort of beef with Washington. But the point is that no matter how much groveling the Bama does, the result is the same: total contempt from those
he’s trying desperately to charm with his “humility.”
The latest example is Hu, who looked completely baffled and slightly amused at the sight of the President of the United States and supposed champion of freedom, bowing before him. Of course, he read it as American weakness (as he and everyone else in the world had read the Bama’s previous bows). The result? Earlier yesterday, Team Obama rushed to the media to trumpet a
breakthrough of sorts with the Chinese over sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program. Jeff Bader, a top Obama national security official, proclaimed, “They are prepared to work with us.”
Not so fast.
The Chinese immediately undercut that statement: “Pressure and sanctions cannot fundamentally solve it,” said foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.
If only he’d stop bowing to everybody, they might take him more seriously. I say “might” because he’s so pathologically anti-American in his actions and ideology that even if the bowing stopped, they’d still know they could run circles around him.
So: Obama believes he has charmed Hu into backing sanctions. He bows. He prostrates himself. Hu blows him off.
And….scene.