Posted on 12/14/2008 1:31:57 PM PST by America2012
Here's the link to the video of an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at Bush.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYBGl9q30c
Luckily the President has quick reflexes.
I wonder how often this smack off threw his shoes at Saddam?
I'm sure this video will get plenty of airplay on Leno, Letterman and Conan.
Did he intern at the New York Times or the Washington Post?
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And the President waved off the Secret Service and calmly finished the news conference, quipping that, “it was a size 10.”
Class vs. crass.
This shoe attack could have just been a probing attack to check defenses for a much larger shoe attack planned for later.
If it was England with their socialized Medicine and insane marginal tax rates it is a miracle they have shoes. Besides they have been so geldified they would have thrown a high heel :-) .......
You can't? I can. It takes all kinds. And some of the marginal ones congregate on YouTube.
I’m surprised the Secret Service didn’t drop the guy.
In Arab culture this is a BIG insult.
As a U.S. taxpayer and fellow citizen of U.S. soldiers risking their lives, suffereing horrific injuries and dying to improve your litle hell-hole of a nation I say to that journalist f*** you and the horse you rode in on! If it were possible to isolate fools like that and hold them in a portion of Iraq which would be run in fashion like that under Saddam, I would be all in favor of it.
Wow, with reflexes like that, he could be married to the Hildabeast (ducking all the ashtrays).
Or at least be hired at the NYTimes and or MSNBC.
Remember when the Saddam statue was pulled through the streets of Baghdad and all the Shiites were hitting the statue with sandals and shoes?
Well, “sticks and stones” and all that. . .
As the President told graduates at Texas A&M on Friday:
“Remember that popularity is as fleeting as the Texas wind. Character and conscience are as sturdy as the oaks on this campus. If you go home at night, look in the mirror and be satisfied that you have done what is right, you will pass the only test that matters.”
Nice dodge! W is definitely quick on the draw.
No, the soles of shoes are very insulting to Arabs. It’s worse than giving them the finger.
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