November 16, 2009 | Posted in 
Once again, President Barack Obama is being criticized for bowing when he met a foreign leader.
ABC News‘ Jake Tapper ran the bow past “an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama” who said it is not unprecedented for an American president to bow when meeting a Japanese emperor (Nixon did so in 1971), but that Obama’s much deeper bend was too low.
Read more at NPR News.
