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Hitting someone with a shoe is a statement that the person being struck is the lowest of the low -- someone who's beneath contempt.
Thanks!
Goddamn Bush to hell for his maladministration.
I read that Dana Perino got a black eye in the scuffle that ensued.....can't say I feel bad for either one of them...
Michael Ware on CNN had a hard time keeping the grin off his face....
Calling Bush a dog is an insult to dogs everywhere.
Nikita Khrushchev invented shoe politics. He was way ahead of his time. But somewhere he's smiling tonight.
Thanks again, Niki.
He sounds like an old drunk.
And he looked like and old drunk....
messed up hair. Anyone else notice how is hair is not groomed or cut properly?
Really, he kind of slurred his speech more than usually...and then he had that glazed drunk look on his face /yes.....yes I know...he always looks like that.....but now it's become more obvious.
I love it!
of the low is pretty well-established in about half of the world!
And truly, Bush is "BENEATH CONTEMPT," to say the least!
That's not political, that's just fact.
It's disgusting to have him even show his face on "our behalf."
He deserves far worse than a shoe demonstration.
We need to sic any remaining good U.S. Attys. (OH THAT'S RIGHT, BUSH FIRED/OFFED MOST OF OUR BEST PROSECUTORS!) after Bush and Cheney for their numerous violations of law and international treaties.
Obama KNOWS they have broken just about every Law they could... now what will really happen??...
Must come from ducking punches from Laura
Security probably beat the snot out of the guy in the hallway. Can we ascertain what is happening to this brave soul?
Sometimes you have to stand up to the REAL criminal, even if it takes a sacrifice.
I have far more respect for this shoe thrower than I'll ever have for Bush and his kind... By the way, Bush's cocaine possession, DUIs, AWOL status, SEC violations, and countless other criminal activities should have put in the slammer for much of his life & prevented his nomination (but daddy Bush and his dirty money bailed him out).
BS.
"The man was dragged from the news conference screaming. As the man continued to scream from another room, Bush said: "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know.""
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/
CNN: The shoe-thrower -- identified as Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network -- could be heard yelling in Arabic: "This is a farewell ... you dog!"
While pinned on the ground by security personnel, he screamed: "You killed the Iraqis!"
(al Baghdadia has demanded al Zaidi's release; he was kidnapped and held for 3 days previously in Iraq.)
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where can I send my donation for al-Zaidi's bail money?
He didn't dodge the second shoe. The guy just plain missed. Watch the video and you can see it almost grazes Bush's ear. Another inch or two over and it hits Bush right in the face.
I'm really glad the guy missed, I truly am. And Bush did dodge the first shoe - but not the second.
Oh well. Who cares - let the man have credit for dodging a shoe. It's the first problem he's seen coming and actually reacted to in advance.
Damn... talk about lowering the bar!!!
That said, isn't getting a shoe thrown at you an insult in ANY culture? And isn't calling someone a dog an insult in any culture? (Even if you say it approvingly, it's still like calling someone a bastard approvingly. Yes you mean it positively but it's still an insult word.)
By the way, what is it about the Right Wing's vampire-esque reflexes? First, Ann Coulter shoots away from a pie, and now Bu$h? Are they all nosferatu?
or at the Inauguration as bushoover's car passed by, everybody threw a shoe?
How fitting.
Instead of thinking about it from a Neocon Republican perspective, "Thank God our messiah wasn't hurt!" Think about it from an Iraqi's. "Damn, he missed! It was a great insult but he missed! We need to get to show them how insulted, and disgusted we are by their war that destroyed our country!" Now that is what is going on in the mind's of Iraqis. If Bu$h were assaulted by a pair of shoes in the Green Zone, how safe would it be for our American President outside a "safe" room in the Green Zone? Says a lot about the failure of Bu$hco.'s War on Terra'.
If poor, dumb Dubya didn't have bad luck he wouldn't have any luck at all...
If the shoe fits: throw it.
Apparently this is not a compliment in arabic.
From AP: "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" shouted the protester in Arabic, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
Bush ducked both shoes as they whizzed past his head and landed with a thud against the wall behind him.
"It was a size 10," Bush joked later.."
At this point a shoe thrown at President Bush is not a shoe thrown at America nor the Presidency, but at Bush and his MONUMENTAL CRIMES and we all know this. Pontificate and feign patriotic offense all you like, this 'assault' didn't occur in a vacuum.