Pat Lang is outraged the Obama bowed to the Saudi King as is the Agonist's Sean Paul Kelly:
Repeat after me: American presidents do not bow to kings.
Hey – the bow will lower oil prices and sell lots of Treasuries. What is bad about that? And where was the outrage when Obama lowered his head to the queen of England?
I wonder why U.S. people are so touchy on this issue. Both royals are much older than Obama is and to lower the head while greeting them is simply good manners.
Meanwhile Obama held a pretty noteworthy speech in Prague. Besides the usual nonsense he said:
"To put an end to Cold War thinking, we will reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and urge others to do the same," Mr. Obama said. "Make no mistake, as long as these weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal to deter any adversary and guarantee that defense to our allies, including the Czech Republic. But we will begin the work of reducing our arsenal, to reduce our warheads and stockpiles. We will negotiate a new strategic arms reduction treaty with the Russians this year."
Reducing the number of nuclear weapons and a new treaty with Russia are significant policy changes. The big public announcement in Prague will make it difficult to step back from these promises.
Of course some will get outraged about that too as it likely includes a (reciprocal) bow to Medevev.