Obama Avoids First Base

The right wing has been doing their best to read sinister meaning into President Obama's bow to Saudi King Abdullah.    

It was more likely a slip of decorum or protocol as result of being green around foreign leaders.  Or it could be as some righty prognosticators have suggested a sign of submission to our Saudi overlords.  Would there have been a controversy if he bowed a Japanese head of state?

How quickly memories fade.  It wasn't that long ago that our leaders expressed their admiration to our Saudi friends in an entirely different manner.

I hear the King has sweaty palms.  Maybe that's why Obama opted out of the hand holding.