The link says it all.
Funny how liberals were suggesting that they don't talk about this! Bush busted out some serious skills in dodging not one but two flying Size 10 projectiles!
He is Bush the Great White Ninja (pun on Beverly Hills Ninja).
Hello AD,
I thought the whole thing was quite disrespectful. And I am especially unhappy at the Arab world's apparently gleeful response.
I am wondering, though, how the US Secret Service is feeling right now. Frankly, they should have taken the shoe.
Be well.
Let this be the first salvo in the new Islamic Offensive! Shoes at 20 paces!
BTW, AD, there is something wrong with your last comment on MM's God thread. See ya.
He certainly displayed more class than the idiot reporter.
Yes I too thought it was quite disrespectful. I know a little about eastern culture and there is a much deeper meaning than using some object to throw.
But besides that, you got to admit, Bush got ninja skills!
Yeah, so I'm being told but don't know I did or done to break it so that I can fix it. I can see all the comments.
Take the shoe! Take the shoe!
Today we are here to honor Special Agent On His Toes for taking the shoe meant for the president....hahahahaha
I think Bush shoulda kicked that guys ass.
I also wonder if that guy was somehow related to my grandma...she could hit me with a shoe from the other side of the house!
" I mean who throws a shoe?? Honestly..."
You'd be very unhappy with the Daily Kos, then. The Arab world isn't half as gleeful as the kooks at DK.
Daiwa,
Clearly there are kooks all over the world and on all political sides. Just as clearly, we are not the saviors Cheney and Rumsfeld thought we would be. Still, anyone who would cheer at such an affront to an American president needs some serious training in etiquette.
Amen.
May you be well as well.
Gotta respect Dubya's reflexes! He moved pretty quick for an old guy. (and screw what the Arab world thinks.)
Then you seriously need to hire a few etiquette-teacher. *ahem*, sorry. More than a few.
(but first, if Bush really had been a Ninja, he would have caught the damn shoes and thrown them back at the attacker)
Headline of 7 Days (not a very reputable newspaper in Dubai): NATIONAL HERO
Headline of Gulf News (what is closest to a reputable paper in Dubai) : Shoe Attack Feeds Anti-Bush Rage
There is even an article in Financial Time (who's you can't deny respectability) about the fact that, while the attack was not the best way to do it, it expressed a general frustration of the Arab world toward the american president. But the message, like the shoe, passed way over Bush's head.
There is more to that shoe than a stupid journalist, and dismiss it as such would be quite sad, and dangerous. The reaction of the Arab world to the Shoethrower is clear: there is a clear resentment against what Bush represented.
He is a christian Ninja - you know, turn the other cheek.
As for the reaction, I guess you forgot the reaction after 9-11. It is hardly Bush, it is what he represents. Had it been Obama or Kerry, the reaction would have been the same.
Dont look for excuses to excuse the inexcusable.