Politics

The only time Obama used the word ‘Victory’

Chris Carter
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945. Lieutentant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, watches from the opposite side of the table. Foreign Ministry representative Toshikazu Kase is assisting Mr. Shigemitsu. (US Army photograph)

“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.”

– Barack Obama in an ABC News interview, 2009

I was given the impression that Obama was the most brilliant man ever to grace the White House. But our president doesn’t seem to know that Hirohito didn’t sign the surrender. And why does Obama think one man needs to ‘come down’ to meet with another? Hirohito and MacArthur are both men, regardless of titles. But this is the only president to bow to foreign heads of state.

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