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The shock value here is only emphasized by the fact that the guy clearly thinks he is so much smarter than the rest of us (voters), and by the nasty way he treated the British PM. His advisors were saying that "there is nothing special about Britain". It's becoming clearer now why they said that.

President Bush walked alongside the Saudi king, holding his hand. This was a gesture of friendship between equals; mutual respect between the leaders of their respective countries.
Barack Obama hurried across the room to grab the king's hand and bowed low to him. They did not bow to each other; indeed, the king did not even return the bow. This is an appropriate exchange between a servant and his master, a child and an adult, or an inferior nation to a superior.
That uncultured fool demeaned his office and disrespected every American living and dead by abasing himself before the house of Saud..

So lets look at his protocol history:

No flag pin.
No hand over heart during pledge or national anthem.
Apologizes to the people of Germany, who brought us the nazi's and the Holocoust, for America not doing or being good enough.
Leaves dead granny's body on ice for over a month till convenient for him to have a funeral.
Did not attend Medal Of Honor winners Ball.
Tells people who wont agree with him "Hey I Won"
Compares ICE agents doing their jobs to terrorists (then pelosi followed the great one's example.
Use Air Force One to take the wife to a fancy valentines dinner in Chicago.
Writes a groveling love letter to Iran begging them to be our BFF.
Give a nearly blind dignitary from an allied nation DVD's that don't work in his country, in exchange for priceless historic artifacts.
Give the Queen of England an ipod, with his "greatest moments reading from a teleprompter" loaded on it.
Grovels to a muslim king.

Sure there is more and there will be more.
Makes you proud to be the laughing stock er I mean an American.

· His first phone call was to Abbas, the terrorist leader of the Palestinian Authority and al Fatah;

· His first interview was on al-Arabiya News Channel, where he apologized for the United States;

· His first appointment of an envoy to Syria was the appointment of George Soros;

· He bankrolled Hamas out of Whitehouse funds to the tune of $23 million, following Israel’s invasion of Gaza to stop the missile strikes;

· He promised another 900 million to Gaza;

· He immediately adopted the Saudi Plan as policy for Israel, which favors a contiguous Palestinian state (that is, a geographic area that connects Gaza with the West Bank and includes Jerusalem – necessarily dividing Israel);

· He dismissed charges against the perpetrators of the bombing of the USS Cole;

· He announced the shut-down of Gitmo, and apologized to the Islamic world for its existence;

· He announced that his first summit would be an Islamic summit;

· He turned a blind eye to Iran’s launch of a satellite capable of triangulating coordinates for ICBMs that Iran is furiously trying to develop for the delivery of nuclear weapons;

· He turned a blind eye to the release of A. Q. Khan, Pakistan’s top nuclear scientist, who is believed to be the very person to have delivered nuclear bomb technology to North Korea;

· He intends to eliminate our anti-ballistic missile defense program;

· He intends to reduce our nuclear weapons arsenal by 75%;

· He intends to reduce our military budget by 25%;

· He has reneged on developing nuclear power;

· He continues to block off-shore or expanded drilling;

· He continues to try and block the production of coal (45% of our electric generating capability)

So who's side is this guy on?