Now I think he’s just doing it on purpose to try and tick people off, but hey, if bowing to a Chinese communist helps improve American democracy in the process, so be it:

Obama has also in previous months **”lost a contact lens” (**official White House excuse) around Chinese premier Wen Jiabao:

But at least it’s a bow reserved for only the most powerful leaders the world:

The Japanese Emperor:

The Saudi King:

And of course the, uh, Mayor of Tampa, Florida:

Is it too much to ask for President Obama to, just once, bow to the US Constitution?