As much fun as people like to make fun of President Bush, a small part of you still has to admire his poise (or at least his reflexes).
President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday, and was given a rather... unusual welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4&NR=1
An Iraqi journalist stood up at the beginning of the press conference and threw both his shoes at the president (apparently this is the Iraqi equivalent of giving somebody the finger). The President ducked both projectiles (there were no Secret Service around to take the ... loafer? for the president? That's not exactly in the job description I guess), and chuckled about it in his usual affable (some people call it moronic) manner after the rest of the journalists in the room took the upstart into the street and beat him senseless.
President Bush turned the potentially injurious scenario into a commentary on the political change that has happened in Iraq in the last several years. Can you imagine if that reporter had thrown shoes at Saddam Houssein? Instead of being escorted outside by his peers, he would have disappeared into a political prison, where he would be starved, beaten, tortured, and eventually executed.
Instead, he throws his shoes at the sitting president of the most powerful nation in the world... and he's missing a pair of shoes.
Isn't democracy wonderful? You can do all sorts of moronic things in the name of free speech!
...
1 comment:
I just can't stop laughing about the whole situation! Somebody through not just one but two shoes at the President:) He He Ha HA
Post a Comment