President Bush ducks two shoes

[skalenfehl]

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Shoes thrown at Bush on Iraq trip

[BenRaines]

I would not want to be that guy and be taken outside by Iraqi security forces. I am not sure they have really good due process laws in place yet.

Ben Raines

[Palerider]

I would not want to be that guy and be taken outside by Iraqi security forces. I am not sure they have really good due process laws in place yet.

Ben Raines

I am thinking that someone is in some deep trouble....

[Palerider]

I better go back and see if that was a male or female reporter .....I have noticed lately that Elphaba has not been around.....:eek:

[BenRaines]

LOL, luckily I saw her in chat two days ago. :)

Ben Raines

[Palerider]

LOL, luckily I saw her in chat two days ago. :)

Ben Raines

thats good to know....I was thinking our favorite atheist was out of the country.....:D

[Moksha]

I was surprised to learn that in Iraq, throwing your shoes at someone would have been seen as the supreme insult. Likewise in Ireland it would be smashing someone in the head with a shillelagh, or in Germany laying on ones back with your buttocks facing the insultee and igniting their bratwurst induced flatulence.

What insults. Too bad Ozzy Osbourne was not at President Bush's side. He could have picked up the hurled shoes and ate them, thus making the errant Iraqi implode.

[Palerider]

I was surprised to learn that in Iraq, throwing your shoes at someone would have been seen as the supreme insult. Likewise in Ireland it would be smashing someone in the head with a shillelagh, or in Germany laying on ones back with your buttocks facing the insultee and igniting their bratwurst induced flatulence.

What insults. Too bad Ozzy Osbourne was not at President Bush's side. He could have picked up the hurled shoes and ate them, thus making the errant Iraqi implode.

Do you think Ozzy would have ate the shoes.....thats pretty mellow compared to some of the stuff he ate in the past...

[amjackson1975]

My husband I'Md me a while ago about this -because Bush came into where My husband works/ is based. He told me the story of the Female Reporter and her Shoes! It gave the guys something to chuckle about because they couldn't go off shift until Bush did his rounds!!

[lilered]

Geez, here I thought your thread was about Bush not wanting to meet a great Indian Chief named Two Shoes.

[Tough Grits]

I'll say this about the little Texan, he has good reflexes!!!

It was reported that a female reporter got a black eye during the scuffle/confusion after the shoe incident due to a microphone being thrust into her eye. Tough crowd, huh?

[Honor]

Sounds like GWB hired Jerry Springer to host his final days in office. I can only imagine what's in the works for the days to come!

[RachelleDrew]

I was surprised to learn that in Iraq, throwing your shoes at someone would have been seen as the supreme insult.

In certain parts of Iraq, people don't even pick their feet up all the way from the ground to avoid showing the bottom of their shoes/feet. It's considered disrespectful in the more traditional Iraqi areas. So getting smacked in the face with the bottom of a shoe would have been the pwn of a lifetime.

Good gravy, dubya was a lot quicker than his bodyguards were. It seriously took them like an hour just to get up to his podium and that's after he practically Matrixed two shoes. What if the object thrown was a knife, not a pair of shoes?

For those of you to lazy to read, here's the youtube vid.

YouTube - President George Bush Shoe Toss Thrown by Iraq Journalist Lolz

If you slow it down enough, you can see Bush grinning as the first shoe is coming towards him. Even HE thought it was funny.

[Palerider]

I can't believe Elphaba did not see this.......:)

[miztrniceguy]

i consider throwing shoes at someone in America a sign of disrespect.

[Guest ceeboo]

Geezo what kind of man would have done that to GWB!!!

Probably was a heel, had no soul, and needs to watch his toungue.

[Wingnut]

Ceeboo, you're so punny!

[Palerider]

where oh where oh where is Elphaba....:)

[beefche]

Geezo what kind of man would have done that to GWB!!!

Probably was a heel, had no soul, and needs to watch his toungue.

I think he was fit to be tied. Or perhaps, running out of options.

[Guest ceeboo]

I think he was fit to be tied. Or perhaps, running out of options.

I'm not sure how he even got in the press conference, he was probably one of those sneakers that got in. I guess I shouldn't step all over him until I walk a mile in his shoes.

Just seemed really stinky to me.