Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Obama's new rules
When you are president of the United States and greeting foreign royalty, be sure to bow deeply and comically. Ignore the facts that as head of a sovereign state, you are their peer and representing 300 million Americans; that as the highest official of the world’s first truly democratic republic, you are flouting two and a quarter centuries of protocol and tradition; and that as commander-in-chief of its most powerful nation, you are revealing both your inexperience and weakness to our friends and foes alike.
