President Obama Bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio

RedState: “The mayor of Tampa isn’t a Third World potentate, totalitarian dictator, or terrorist leader so I can’t understand why Obama would be in full-bow mode. Is bowing now the standard way the President greets people these days? Is he misoriented, for some reason, and thinks Tampa is a terrorist stronghold or an enemy of the United States? Does the US owe Tampa a boatload of money and the bow just good business practice?”

Fox News: "But Iorio told Fox News Obama was just being a gentleman. 'It's hard for me to believe that this is such a major issue," she said. "It is an unusual photograph, but ... I wish people could all meet President Obama face to face, but he is a kind and sincere and gracious individual and you really see that when you meet him.'"

Obama’s previous bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Japan’s emperor Akihito drew the right’s ire, with conservative pundits accusing the president of inappropriately cow-towing to foreign leaders.