Anyone notice that while Bush ducked, the Iraqi Prez tried to catch the shoe??

[ddeclue]

I just noticed that...

Things that make you go hmmmm....

[Clio the Leo]

1. What blows my mind is that neither one of them got down.....

.... behind the podium. Is the President not trained to do that? I mean, I realize it wasn't like the guy was pointing a gun at him, but still.

[eShirl]

6. I guess not cowering on camera is more important to them than not dying?

[Muttocracy]

8. I thought the same thing - Bush popped up again with a grin in between! nt

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Bush swatted at the second one. nt

[Truth2Tell]

3. One of them is a coward

and the other is not? :shrug:

[WI_DEM]

23. well, I think if somebody hurled a shoe at me I would have ducked too.

[Jamastiene]

4. Do you know what that shoe would go for on Ebay?

OF COURSE, he tried to catch it!

:hide:

[mucifer]

5. Iraqi prez knew it was a shoe and wasn't too worried. He almost looked like he

was expecting it, kinda like he was bored.

[Ian David]

10. THIS would have surprised him...

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1462916/flying_rc_penis_attack_caught_on_tape/

[gmoney]

18. "Ah, I see Achmed the Shoe Thrower is back with Reuters..."

"At least he has small feet."

[mtnsnake]

7. Supposedly the Red Sox are preparing to make the shoe thrower an offer

I guess they want to put him on the pitching staff right away and feel he's better than anyone else on their current roster.

[ddeclue]

11. Was it in the strike zone?

:rofl:

[SwampG8r]

15. i think i blew a sinus

laughing at this

oh god my face hurts!

[Ian David]

9. Shoes are probably hard to come by these days in Iraq, even for him.

He was probably hoping they were his size.

[Fire1]

12. He didn't try that hard.

[Historic NY]

13. Man we need to get them shoes and bronze them.

[MercutioATC]

14. I think he was trying to bat it away, not catch it.

Still, better than Bush's "duck and cover"...

[blueladybird]

16. The guy insulted all of us. What's funny about that?

I'm not a fan of Bush but I found it very disrespectful to all of us Americans. Can't understand how any of us can find it amusing. :patriot:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. I'm not insulted. I do wish he would have had a couple of pies instead. You wanna

feel "insulted" that's your business but don't included the rest of us in that bullshit.

[Erin Elizabeth]

19. I'm not insulted at all.

Bush and his unnecessary war has caused untold destruction and death in Iraq. You wouldn't be so hot on him, either, trust.

[rvablue]

22. I'm insulted....insulted by how this president has destroyed our economy, ruined our reputation

around the world and waged a deadly and expensive war based on lies.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. "I'm not a fan of Bush but I found it very disrespectful to all of us Americans."

I can't understand that, as an American, you don't applaud this action.

Bush is what's insulted this country. If you haven't figured that out in the last 8 years, I guess you're part of the problem.

[snake in the grass]

25. What a steaming vat of feces!

Insulting is that Bush was allowed to perpetrate his crimes for 8 years with the complicit silence of our own party leaders.

The shoe thrower should get a fucking medal as recognition for his journalistic competence! I have never seen the absolute disdain that Bush deserves presented in such a concise way.

[MarkInCA]

26. A shoe was thrown at Shrub

That's what was funny. Surprised you missed that.

[stillcool]

28. Perhaps because Iraq's aren't.

Americans, at least not yet. So far it is still their country, and it seems they still have some customs that we haven't yet bombed out of them. We throw tomatoes, eggs,.. they throw shoes. When in Rome...

Dec 06, 2005
Iraq Parliamentary Elections: Allawi Gets The Boot

If you recall, Najaf is the home base of Moktada al-Sadr, now a coalition partner in the main Shi'ite electoral slate, the United Iraqi Alliance. Also, Najaf was the scene of a military standoff in August 2004 between U.S. troops and al-Sadr's militia. As the Prime Minister at the time, Allawi, a secular Shi'ite (and ex-C.I.A. operative) stood solidly behind the U.S. effort.


It may have been because he interrupted a funeral. (In the third shot from the top, you can see a casket being led out the entrance with Allawi's contingent just beyond.) The yellow circles in the next two shots are not thought bubbles. They are evidentiary circles drawn to point out how Allawi and company were run off in a hail of shoes.

I guess Allawi's Ba'athist past doesn't make him the most popular guy in more religious Shi'ite strongholds. Many cultures have unique rituals of social denunciation. In Iraq, as I'm told, the throwing of shoes is the single worst insult that a person can make.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/12/iraq_parliament.html

[uppityperson]

30. No, he didn't. He insulted mrbush.

[Erin Elizabeth]

20. With the first shoe, he didn't even flinch or change his facial

expression. As someone said above, he even looked bored.

With the second shoe he sort of did this half-ass reach to try to knock it away and that's it. Dude looked bored the whole time. Which I thought was sort of funny.

[Billy Shears]

21. Bush dodged and the Shoes nailed the American Flag. How deeply metaphoric...

[Michigan-Arizona]

27. Seen that to Shears

I thought the very same thing when I seen it hit the American flag. Hubby & I watched it so many time's to where we still can't stop laughing almost 24 hour's later. This video could be used in therapy for people that are depressed & need a good laugh! Hell who needs pill's when this is an instant laugh & last longer.

[totodeinhere]

29. It wasn't the Iraqi Prez. It was the Prime Minister. n/t