Obama's bow to the Saudi King

[honeychile]

Funny, I was going to add a disclaimer to my post, but deleted it. It went something like this:

It's fairly obvious that I did not vote for Obama. I still think that there are four other people in the United States who are much better qualified to run for President. That said, Obama won, and is our President. I will give him the respect due to him - the respect for the Office of the President of the United States and as a good speaker. I am really trying to go out of my way to say that the Protocol Office may not have properly advised the President about certain situations (such as hugging the Queen).

In other words, I really don't have an axe to grind or an agenda to push - but if he keeps ignoring simple protocol, I will feel free to bash as often as certain posters bashed other Presidents.

There was more, but I haven't slept since Sunday morning, so that will have to do for now.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by honeychile

There was more, but I haven't slept since Sunday morning, so that will have to do for now.

Ooo. Hope you're okay.

And for the record, my Jamestown kin (or near kin), it was clear to me that your concern was for proper protocol, pure and simple.

Speaking of protocol, you do know the story about Jackie Kennedy, don't you? When she and President Kennedy met the Queen and Prince Philip, Angier Biddle Duke, Kennedy's chief of protocol, advised Mrs. Kennedy that wives of heads of state do not bow or curtsy to kings and queens. When Mrs. Kennedy received Prince Philip after after Kennedy's funeral, Duke noticed that she curtsied. Knowing that she was stickler for protocol, he expressed his surprise to her. She is said to have responded, "Angie, I'm not the wife of a head of state anymore."