re: #96 Charles

There’s no difference. Both of those are examples of pandering to the Saudis.

And I absolutely guarantee that if Barack Obama had done a sword dance with Abdullah, or bowed to accept a medal from him, the screaming would be even more deafening.

What makes this slightly worse, IMHO, is that Obama is now trying to claim he didn’t do what he so obviously did. Until then, both were on equal footing as equally bad.