Obama bow???!!!!!

Today, jianyang brought up something about President Obama bowing to foreign leaders such as the Japanese Emperor Akihito and that it has somewhat caused a big hoo-ha among the conservatives back at the states. Well, we were saying that it's an act of humility and that somewhat nowadays world leaders seems to be much better ( or should I say diplomatic) then compared to the past. Remember George (war) Bush?..he was kinda aggressive in his campaign against terror. Somehow, Obama's administration seems to be very very diplomatic in every front.

Many internet opinions especially by the conservatives are that it is utterly wrong for the US president to show such acts of ' weakness' to foreign leaders. In my opinion, I don't see that there is anything wrong in showing acts of humility and stuff. Yes, as the world's most powerful leader( not less with the help of the media), he should show some kind of back-bone and stuff. However, I think that it is absolutely in US interest for them to build some kind of rapport, a better relations with other leaders, especially China. China, will eventually be the biggest market(literally with that many people) in the world and will be an important world player. Will she become the most powerful nation? That is still unanswered because there is still a lot of restrictions as well as that so far China had not done much on a global scale unlike USA.

But, she will be the place where riches can be found, and it will stand in USA favour to be with good terms with China. I think Obama also recognize this fact as well and sometimes it doesn't pay to keep going heads on..and I think this is an act of diplomacy so to farther improve relations between them.

Actually, after around 11 months of Obama administration, he has definitely been around the world trying to repair relations with various nations which I think is a good thing. As the US can not be alone and is rather dependent on other nations as well. i.e China, which actually holds a substantial amount of US treasuries...However, as for how effective his administration are, still remains a mystery. He had been trying to overhaul the entire healthcare system in the midst of the financial mess left behind, which had not been exactly successful>.< ...The market demand in the US is still very far from the peaks in 07 and 08,although there had been indicators which shows improvements. But, it might be due to X'mas factor, being why consumers are willing to spend again..but the unemployment rates are still high. Is he a better choice than McCain ? Its still hard to tell...