George Bush nearly pelted with shoes

[Wayne]

I support the Republicans because I'm for low taxes, less spending (I'm not pleased with how much they spent which is why they are out of power now), and I like owning guns legally of course.

Now just because I usually support Republicans it doesn't mean I am 100% Republican, I am a Registered Indepedent and voted in the Democratic Primary in NC and many of my views are socially liberal....I just don't buy into the whole political correctness bullcrap though.



KillFace, W just got shoes thrown at him, it was a secure room, nobody (aside from the security detail) had weapons. George W. Bush showed that he wasn't a whimp and he wasn't going to let one person keep him from doing his job as President. It makes W look weak if something so minor makes him flee the room, and it inspires people to fight the Americans to some extent. The hypotheticals I mention with Obama are more due to the manner in which he is covered by the press and yes there is a hell of a difference, you can't tell me otherwise.

But that's got nothing to do with what I was referring to. I'd rather be a living punk than a brave fool (in this instance). There is absolutely nothing to gain from the prez being assassinated by some reporter and I seriously doubt he was showing a brave face by just standing there. He looked like an idiot in headlights. I would say the same thing if Obama or Clinton had done that. It just looked dumb. I don't even know the correct thing to do there, but Secret Service should have swarmed his ass and they weren't around. It should have been one shoe and then he vanished.

I have a side question, though: what punishment does everyone think this guy should get. I heard something like 8 years. Now I'm upset that someone dared to do such a thing at our leader (despite my criticism, I'm not cool with somebody doing that), but I think 8 years is excessive. But then again, he knows the country he lives in. Just like that American kid who marked up the cars in Argentina and got caned, maybe this guy just is getting what he asked for.

[CFH]

I support the Republicans because I'm for low taxes, less spending (I'm not pleased with how much they spent which is why they are out of power now), and I like owning guns legally of course.

Now just because I usually support Republicans it doesn't mean I am 100% Republican, I am a Registered Indepedent and voted in the Democratic Primary in NC and many of my views are socially liberal....I just don't buy into the whole political correctness bullcrap though.



KillFace, W just got shoes thrown at him, it was a secure room, nobody (aside from the security detail) had weapons. George W. Bush showed that he wasn't a whimp and he wasn't going to let one person keep him from doing his job as President. It makes W look weak if something so minor makes him flee the room, and it inspires people to fight the Americans to some extent. The hypotheticals I mention with Obama are more due to the manner in which he is covered by the press and yes there is a hell of a difference, you can't tell me otherwise.

But that's got nothing to do with what I was referring to. I'd rather be a living punk than a brave fool (in this instance). There is absolutely nothing to gain from the prez being assassinated by some reporter and I seriously doubt he was showing a brave face by just standing there. He looked like an idiot in headlights. I would say the same thing if Obama or Clinton had done that. It just looked dumb. I don't even know the correct thing to do there, but Secret Service should have swarmed his ass and they weren't around. It should have been one shoe and then he vanished.

I have a side question, though: what punishment does everyone think this guy should get. I heard something like 8 years. Now I'm upset that someone dared to do such a thing at our leader (despite my criticism, I'm not cool with somebody doing that), but I think 8 years is excessive. But then again, he knows the country he lives in. Just like that American kid who marked up the cars in Argentina and got caned, maybe this guy just is getting what he asked for.

I'm not at all familiar with Iraqi laws and customs, but 8 years seems extremely harsh to me. No one was ever in any real danger, it was a political act/statement - nothing more.

[Mar]

...amazing this guy was damn near a hero and now he's over there crying like a little bitch. Reguardless of who the pres is...(and i don't even vote) or how you feel or don't feel about the guy this shat was crazy, after all the time the secret service or whatever sits around doing nothing they finally have a chance to gun some clown down, anyhow anyone being killed is bad but if someone deserved it...i didn't see him chuckin shoes at the previous leaders there who were cutting off thier heads and whatever else. Take that fucker to jail, throw some shoes in there.

[Kirkland Laing]

In the Iranian capital Tehran, hard-line Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati praised the act at Friday prayers, calling it the "Shoe Intifada."
Jannati proposed people in Iraq and Iran should carry shoes in further anti-American demonstrations.
"This should be a role model," he said.


Shoe-tossing journalist was beaten, Iraqi judge says - International Herald Tribune

Come up with your own lines turban boy, I came up with the Shoe Intifada first. And fired the first shot in it. Well, the second.

[AdamGB]

Shoes in Iraq? good god! people carrying shoes!...

If the place somehow doesn't descent into total Anarchy after this outrage then I bet the US will immediately pull out because they will find the act of shoe carrying so outrageously offensive.

I'm not even in Iraq and my morals have been shaken to the core!

[Kirkland Laing]

The shoe hurled at President George W. Bush has sent sales soaring at the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran. The brown, thick-soled “Model 271” may soon be renamed “The Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush,” Ramazan Baydan, who owns the Istanbul-based producer Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic., said in a telephone interview today.
“We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy,” he said. “We’ve even hired an agency to look at television advertising.”



Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 more staff to meet demand, he said.


Bloomberg.com: Europe

You know what to get me for Christmas now.

[Kirkland Laing]

The first Shoe Intifada demonstration in the West Bank, peace be upon them.