Unlike Joe, I don’t want him killed for throwing a shoe. Maybe flogged raw, cut and salt in the wound, electric shock but only for the degradation and contempt to a state leader and that office. Being as Iraq is still “primative” and the Republican Guard/Hussein-lovers are still within the government, I feel secure in the unspoken knowledge that this disrespectful twerp is being dealt with appropriately and without American intervention or interfearence.

http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/who-throws-a-shoe/

President Bush handled this so well. I just loved his comback (I think he even gave the guy the benefit of the doubt on the “size 10″ thing) and he’s REALLY fast on his feet. This “journalist” deserves the fat lip (and broken bones) I’m sure he got.

Look, rioting is an American tradition. We had riots in the 1840’s, a few rebellions before that, that involved guns, shooting home and crop burnings etc. We survived. Not allowing protest against the dolts in office is a bad thing.

Considering how pathetically immature Arab culture is this is about the best we can hope for. Who knows, in 200 years they might get around to penning their equivalent of the magna carta and then something that reads ‘We hold these truths to be self evident …’

This is a culture that is currently very primitive. They are racially prejudiced in a way that is far more extreme that we realize or imagine. They are fighting a war that we called ‘the 30 years.’

That they understood algebra once upon a time is nice, that was ~800 years ago. They never recovered from the mongol invasion. The Ottoman and Seljuk conquests did help Arab culture either. This is a group that suffers from a major inferiority complex.

Killing one of the ones that throws shoes is to kill one of the more evolved specimens.

I’m still hoping he gets shot, or at least tortured real horrorshow for a while.

As Blago would say “Don’t F**k with Dean Martin the cat.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua05RTaDE8o

Back when, we had the civil rights movement. That was a good thing. And we came to resolve and showed the world that legitament protests have value and good ends. Then we had the radicals with civil unrest (riots, bombings and war protests of the 60’s and 70’s). That was a bad thing in the sense that this nation caved to a radical rule. It has only gone downhill from there. We brought this on ourselves by allowing it to happen. The world sees us as weak and thinks that the citizenry hates our nation. Ask any politician who tramples on America. Ask any news media who does the same. It is one thing to protest the injustices of the government (specifically those individuals in political power who need to be called to the carpet) and it is another to trash this country as a whole. How do you expect the rest of the world to react. The UN wants us to dissolve our sovereignty and come in-line with the rest of the socialist world. Bolton acted correctly but that time is now gone.

Remember the Soviet Union? With all its faults and all its lies, you would never see bad press from Pravda knocking the nation….even if it should have. This is the only country we have and even with all the idiocy that goes on here, I wouldn’t trade it for any other. I think that those who would should leave. We would be better off for it. We need to punish those that tear this country down with whatever available law-abiding means. America ain’t perfect but it is far better than any alternative I have seen. We should not allow the disgracing of our highest office or our nation. It sets presidence that we cannot soon recover from. Not a sermon, just a thought!

“I am sure the American public will met out the apropos punishment to our off-the-reservation political class.”

Practicing the Bush Doctrine here, I like it..

BTW, Bush has excellent reflexes, and his quip of “All I can report is a Size 10″ was fantastic.

I for one am ready to start a black market business in shoes. Between the my daughter, and wife I have a ready made trove on hand and will begin selling pumps, sneakers boots and sliipers at $250 a sole.