Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes At Bush

[RationalInquirer]

Well it's about time. All I can say is that he has ninja like reflexes for a 62 year old lame duck. Dubya is almost as good at dodging shoes as he does responsibility. Assaulting a foreign head of state (even if it is with footware) is considered a major offense in many (or all) countries. But we have an exception. After all Bush hasn't been demonstrating proper conduct as a head of state anyways, as we have seen in the last 8 years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLds-TZMGw

Now do the same thing to Cheney, Condi, Rummy, Rove and the useless US Congress just to be fair!

Considering bushes response to the attack, perhaps he should log into 'internets' on 'the google' to see how the Iraqis (and the whole world for that matter) are feeling about him. I know many of us want to throw something at him-shoe or otherwise. Be creative :)

Just for laughs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKTH6f1JfX8 (internets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RiHHs1HYzE (the google)

[MrsSallyBakura]

Haven't we heard enough of this already? :/

Guess people will never, ever, ever tire of finding ways to attack Bush.

[RationalInquirer]

Guess people will never, ever, ever tire of finding ways to attack Bush
Perhaps your right, but Bush and his administration continue to screw up nearly everything they come into contact with (economy, Iraq, environment you name the subject). Until his presidency actually ends and Obama's inauguration in January arrives, then there is all the more reason to get in some final shots at him and his cohorts. When he finally leaves office and retires to his Texan ranch (where he never should have left) then he will leave our minds and we can evaluate Obama's progress. Let history judge Bush then. Besides, people need to be more aware of the most powerful man on Earth, so the mistakes of 2000 and 2004 are never repeated again.

[GcarOatmealRaisinCookies]

I've seen the vids on the news.
That was some funny shit.
Gives a literal meaning to "Boot to the head."

[SilverFox]

The rumours on the internets is now my MSG sound. XD I'm not going to get bored of this for a while.

[WillPhanto1]

You know, I have to say, if he wasn't such a f***-up, wouldn't we just love him? Haters don't affect him, he has a good sense of humor (what the whole "welcome to my hanging" joke), he does funny little jigs, and he has ninja like reflexes. Okay picture it, if we didn't go into Iraq, we caught Bin Laden and destroyed Al-Qaeda in a matter of days, everybody still loved us, gas remained around $1.50, and the economy is so good we wouldn't think twice about blowing a paycheck on trading cards. Wouldn't we just love him?
But anyway, with how Bush just ducked it, and passed it off like it was nothing (I think he actually told Secret Service to stand aside when it happened) most people in America reacted with a "Cool! Bush is like Neo!" reaction, and really made him look cool. So that Iraqi Journalist failed.
(anti-flame disclaimer P.S.: I'm not a Bush supporter)

[darkarcher]

Just pointing something out...the Bush administration is not responsible for the current economic recession. It was a natural course following some unwise political decisions started in the late 90s.

I know it's easy to just blame whoever is in charge when something happens, but realize that many events are direct results of events years, even decades, into the past.

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On topic, I laughed when I saw it happen. It has nothing to do with the fact that it happened to Bush...I would have laughed if I saw a video of that happening to anyone.

[RationalInquirer]

Just pointing something out...the Bush administration is not responsible for the current economic recession. It was a natural course following some unwise political decisions started in the late 90s.
I agree. The Fannie and Freddie government sponsored instution was also responsible for a great deal of the mortgage problem. Alan Greenspan and the other members of the Federal Reserve also failed to exercise their power to properly regulate parts of the economy as well. The Clinton era was not all fun and roses either. But I think it's safe to say that Bush helped to accelerate the economic crisis...among other things. Bringing the country from a surplus to a whopping debt and countless more.
Now, in recent news, the North American automakers are also taking a huge plunge. Many people have been unfortunately layed off and much jobs have been lost.

[KuroStarr]

Bush has been dealing with the earlier president's mistakes. Nothing in government moves fast. Nothing.
Bill Clinton was a horrible president-why not throw shoes at him instead?

[RationalInquirer]

Bush has been dealing with the earlier president's mistakes. Nothing in government moves fast. Nothing.
Bill Clinton was a horrible president-why not throw shoes at him instead?
I understand that a politician can never fully satisfy everybody's expectations, however, although Clinton made sacrifices in his two terms (what president hadn't?) he still managed to preside over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in US history, He had a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus of $559 billion at the end of his presidency. Finally leaving office with a 65% approval rating. One of the more referred mistakes in his time as President was having sexual relations with a woman. He was then impeached, and aquitted. (Bush wages wars and nobody impeached him for it)

http://clinton4.nara.gov/textonly/WH/Work/040299.html

As for Bush, I think his greatest accomplishment was the capture of Saddam Hussein. However, everything else from the unecessary war on Iraq, botched response to Katrina, appointing thugs like Lewis 'Scooter' Libby into high office, passing the unconstutional and privacy violating PATRIOT ACT, Guatanomo Bay unethical torture, outing CIA agent Valerie Plame, and others overshadowed his mor minor accomplishments. He may not be the worst President ever, (that would go to maybe Truman, Jackson, etc...) but he will leave a tattered legacy and the lowest approval ratings of any US President in history.

[SilverFox]

One day I guess maybe the world will look back and laugh? in 20 years we will still be able to watch the bushisms, a wee little unintended minor redeemer. <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley2.png'>

[Acks]

http://vash.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Anims/bushoes.gif
http://www.b3tards.com/u/ead180058c505fc363ce/footwear2.gif

[RationalInquirer]

Nice avatar Acks!
Just in time for the season:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/bush%20shoe/GhostofBillHix/bush_shoe.gif?o=12
And then some nostalgia:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/bush%20shoe/dubdubwolf/bushpower-iyankeesblog.gif?o=17

Here is a January 2001 article from the Onion. Never heard of the Onion? Well now you do.
Apparently someone there owns a time machine! That or they hold more truth under the layers of satire than other news:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784
Reply to Silverfox:One day I guess maybe the world will look back and laugh? in 20 years we will still be able to watch the bushisms, a wee little unintended minor redeemer.
Heres my favourite bushism <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley2.png'> funny and bitter at the same time.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we, they never stop thinking about news ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

[SilverFox]

My favourite is when bush was addressing a crowd of people in a studio or something, and he's talking about the middle east.
"they want us to leave, that's what they want us to do, and I think the world would be better off if we DID leave, I mean DIDN'T, blhlblh if-we-left, the-world-would-be-worse (uses hand movements)"

That onion article was interesting, bush basically stating he wanted to apply a 250% boost to military spending, and that he wanted to start a mini-war, he didn't have any particular venue in mind at that point yet lol.

[Zairak]

Ok, is this really going to turn into a "haha bush is teh suck" thread? At least leave the bushisms out and stick to matters of policy...