Grace under fire. Doubt Bill Clinton or Obama would take such an insult so well.
Meanwhile: the reporter is an ungrateful, ill-informed twit. Much the same as ours.
Time to put reporters through similar security humiliation that we all suffer at airports - but KEEP their shoes.
Despite his not closing the borders, Americans will miss the quality of him as an individual and as an elected official.
God bless Pres. Bush. What a great statesman! If he were able to run again, he’d have my vote again. Now let’s cage all the radical islamists media, and let them dodge pork layered bullets. They’re worse than the lowest slimiest piece of garbage. Pox on all of them.
...and the Secret Service did what????
Was this guy showing how much he disliked bush, or was there something specific that bush said in his speech that the guy took offense to?
That secret service team should be FIRED. They should’ve been all over that guy before the 2nd shoe went airborne. In fact, an effective secret service agent can handily intercept any flying shoe...
Someone doing such a thing deserves to be shot. For their stupidity if for no other reason. If I planned to throw something at a president, I would EXPECT to be shot.
F***ing muslim. I agree the Secret Service should’ve capped him immediately.
F***ing muslim. I agree the Secret Service should’ve capped him immediately.
“...peeled off both of his shoes and threw them a the U.S. President, shouting ‘This is the end!’”
Typically unappreciative, knuckledragging POS mohammedan. They make me sick. I say, NEVER liberate another muslim country again. No blood for muslims!
And W's retort: "All I can report is that it was a size 10"
LOL! God Bless you President Bush. And thank you for keeping us safe.
I think this is another example of media obfuscation and lying. The real story is the SOFA agreement, which few will ever hear about. The real story should be something along the lines of the letter to the editor I wrote a few days ago. However, I have yet to see anything similiar even in the conservative OpEd’s I read. Anyway , here is the letter.
The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) portends victory. Iraq and U.S. as two sovereign, and coequal countries agreed on ways forward implementing U.N. principles and purposes. Iraqi pragmatic evaluations of conditions lead talks for disengagement: not U.S. election cycle driven timelines.
General Petraeus testified the surge would execute proven counterinsurgency tactics “to improve the security for the people of Iraq in order to give Iraqi leaders the time and space they need to come to grips with tough political issues”. Throughout 2008 Iraqi people and leaders experienced deliverance from lives dominated by assassins stalking them and their families. They witnessed national institution ascendance in providing personal and material security.
Persistence for Iraq representative government thwarted al Qaeda determination that Babylon becomes the Caliphate rallying point. In Iraq, U.S. earned credibility as a counter force to all horrid factions applying murderous coercion when striving to dominate African, Oriental, and Asian politics.
Invigorating new allies’ confrontational initiatives brings Global War on Terror victory by frustrating plans, breaking alliances, and fracturing jihadist organizations into ever less effective units. Without cities, countries or armies bin Laden, successor sociopath prophets, and tyrants they empower only dream of conquest as they suffer unnaturally shortened lives as pariahs.
Yet administration leaders Obama, Biden and Clinton voted for removing most troops by April 2008, and preventing this victory. Their behavior portends traditional ally abandonment. Their actions portend escaping commitment, and reviving self-congratulatory righteousness within elegant foreign policies redefining national interest, proportional response, multi-lateralism, re-deployment and exit strategy.
I’m sure this journalist reporting this incident and slipping in the “bad Iraq war” points has not gone unnoticed by the astute.
>Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is intensely disliked across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the conflict, which has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.<
Media seems to be getting back on message. Look for more.
Some of you FReepers are OFF TRACK. This is an insult against the United States of America, just as the USS Cole attack was. Just dreaming here, but if the SS would have capped the SOB right there, even though libs here would have been hysterical, the MEs would have understood and accepted his execution with “Uh oh, we screwed up, that cowboy is opening a can of whup-ass again!”.
Considering all that our country has done for those pukes (and we know this first hand in our family) there should be retribution but we’re Americans after all, sometimes we’re too damned polite.
I live in a border state for sure (Texas) and border security is also a responsibility of each GOVENOR too, quit giving them a pass and blaming everything on Bush, even though yes, he should have made strong moves right off to secure the borders, etc., etc. A lot of us started reminding “Good Hair” Perry about this and he started rattling his saber, some of my friends were sent on border details (cross-trained w/Homeland Security LE agencies) but “Good Hair” took some heat, well, kinda, sorta...
This lack of resolve is nationwide, not just Bush. They’ve all turned into wusses, it’s everywhere.