Once Bush, Sr vomited right on the Japanese Prime Minister. Talk about a breach of protocol!

The guest blogger on American Thinker? That Mustafa Alani? I'd sooner take my talking points from Rush Limbaugh.

http://www.grc.net/index.php?&PK_ID=...=Mustafa+Alani

But what does he know right? /sarcasm

Regardless, it shouldn't take some Senior Advisor and Program Director in Security and Terrorism Studies at the Gulf Research Center to know when you've been insulted.

Are you aware that the "governor" is a member of the Saudi royal family, or are you just choosing to not mention that?

Here's an in-depth look at Trump's casino businesses in Atlantic City, how he bankrupted them repeatedly while pulling massive amounts out for himself, and how he drove many small businesses out of business in the process, and at the same time helped drive Atlantic City to economic collapse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/ny...ntic-city.html

Unsurprisingly, he's using the same language today about what he's going to do "for" the country.

Mustafa Alani might have expertise within his own job, but he’s out of his lane here. A Security analyst from Iraq is free to opine about nuances of insult within official Saudi Protocol, just as you are and I am. But he holds the legitimacy of any other random blogger, especially while writing so floridly and so far outside his knowledge area. Like when an obstetrician/politician like Ron Paul puts on his Economist hat to shill for Precious Metals dealers. On a website like American Thinker, Alani doesn’t have to be accurate or accountable, or trustworthy. All he has to do is demonstrate hostility for the current Administration, and he’s in the club.

I come eagerly looking forward to a response, and this is what I get? Joan, I expected more from you. This is just pathetic.

A man who has a Ph.D. in Politics and an M.A. in International Relations and spends his days studying political and security developments in the Middle East from the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center most certainly has weight in his opinion -- much more than you do, unless you feel better qualified to form opinions about Saudi protocol.

You are, of course, free to retract from the main argument and discuss this man's credentials all day long.

The red herring runs strongly in this one. Your giant argument about Dr. Alani's ("random blogger's") perceived legitimacy retracts from the main argument about S.A. royals insulting Obama. Unless you've got evidence to prove otherwise, your argument failed to counter my claim. Like I said:

Of all the people, I was looking forward to actually discussing something worthwhile; what a let down.

P.S. where is this man on American Thinker? I am trying to find blog posts from him. Do link me to one of his posts, since you seem to know a lot about him.

A low-ranking governor, not high delegation. Do you people get insulted and remain ignorant of it? Feels like trying to explain veganism to a carnivore.

You seem to be trying to find ways to insult and annoyed at your inability.
Why?
Better question, why try and bring down Obama in a Trump thread?

As I recall, it came up in this thread because Trump puked out some tweets about the incident. So it was kind of organic that conversation in this thread developed into discussion about that.

I think Trump's reaction exposes a potential downside to a Trump administration: his NOTORIOUSLY thin skin. Maybe that's why he HAS to be a counter puncher. He has to punch back hard before taking too many taps which would expose his glass jaw. Combine that with an apparently strong 'kiss my ring' impulse ... The worry is he will respond to a strategic ally throwing a temper tantrum by throwing an even bigger temper tantrum, thus blowing an important relationship in, say, the fight against da'esh (ISIS).

Plus ... we don't live in feudal Japan.

Yup. His first reaction to the awful tragedy in Orlando was to make it all about himself. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...ing_right.html

Don't be a doormat is what I'm saying. Respect yourself enough to never let people step on you. If someone insults you, be insulted. If you don't stand up for yourself, no one else will.

At the very least, if you're not gonna get back on the plane, be firm and never be obsequious.

Does this advice also hold for all of the groups of people whom Trump regularly insults?

Does anyone really think Obama and his advance team were unaware of the reception they would be receiving in Saudi Arabia, whether at the airport or at the meetings or at the terse little pronouncements at the photo-op? That a President Trump might refuse to leave his plane because he was displeased with the status of his official greeter, that’s cause for alarm in my opinion. There are so many layers to this stuff, like there were when the treaty with Iran was being negotiated. Iranians who were promoting it had to make like they thought it was horrible but necessary, to sell it to the rest of their own government, because diplomacy is so two-faced between what’s on the surface and what’s really getting done.

Why do people here care who greeted Obama at the airport? Of course the Arabs were upset, among other things, about the treaty with Iran. They were just as upset about it as the Israelis, but there was nothing they could do about it except try to posture in ways other parties would accept as hanging tough and sticking it to the Man. Which our people knew going into it, because that's how choreographed and orchestrated these events are. Progressives look at the footage and pronounce Obama gracious, or diplomatic, while conservatives see the same thing and say he was being obsequious. That’s just the kind of thing Trump’s people and the Republican right like to throw around. They like to say our President is too stupid to know when he’s being insulted, or when a reception is chilly, or why. Messages were delivered, assurances were exchanged, and another little outrage was smoothed over. Another little opportunity to try and paint Obama as ineffectual while reeling every time Obama manages to do an end-run around the most obstructive Congress in US history.

What someone like Amani or nr32 sees as a snub, or an insult, or blatant disrespect of the global pecking order, I see as a Kabuki dance. We upset them, but not bad enough to trigger an oil embargo or another Arab-Israeli War. They stomp a foot, just not hard enough to trigger an international incident. Everything about it is read different ways depending on the orientation of the observer.

I think you have been poorly informed. Hillary Clinton has enacted policies in Central America and the Middle East leading to destabilization and violence in those regions. I encourage you to read about Clintons foreign policy in Latin America, it will likely horrify you, as it completely contradicts claims she makes about human rights and the environment. Clinton also flip flops on issues, and tends to actually vote more right wing than she claims in campaigns.

By contrast, Bernie is delightfully consistent and scandal free, after fifty years involved in both activism and political office. Whatever you don't like about Bernie, he actually has the most positive campaign of any candidate, and even what little media coverage he received in this election has been found by Harvard researchers to be just as "blacked out" as Bernie supporters claim, and yet much more positive than either Trump or Clintons campaigns.

There's also proof of voter fraud in California, I'm deeply involved on a grassroots level, and I attended a county council meeting yesterday where fifty poll workers testified. It's not only as bad as some people claim, it is worse.

Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. There's your October Surprise if Bernie was the nominee.

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Trump has had an absolutely terrible couple of weeks. A month to go to the convention. Should be fun.

Donald Trump to his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski: YOU'RE FIRED!!!

Donald Trump didn't pay the girls in his rally. And has he ever fed that poor guinea pig stuck to his head?