President Obama had a habit of bowing to people. It's unclear why this seemed to be a thing with him — perhaps because he spent a lot of his Wonder Bread years overseas — but we cats always thought he should cut it out. It's one thing to show respect to someone by inclining your head, but when it comes to foreign royalty, American leaders do not bow. That's why we fought the Revolution.
So we well remember when, back in 2009, the teabaggers and the right wingers went crazy, accusing Obama of having bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting.
How quaint.
As with so much of the nightmare that is Donald Trump (who has curtsied to a Saudi king himself, it should be noted), today's unfathomable statement from the White House on the Jamal Khashoggi murder made us long for the days when the worst thing a President did was give an aging monarch a too-enthusiastic handshake. We cats HISS.
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