Just A Heal?

As I read the reports of a reporter throwing a shoe, then another at GW Bush I couldn’t help but laugh and think how lucky he was that was the only thing that was thrown at him. It got me thinking about earlier times when presidents and all sorts of elected officials often faced barrages of rotten fruit & vegetables. A sort of semi-civilized way for the common person to register their dissatisfaction with a person of power. Rarely was there a more serious altercation but on some occasions a punch might be thrown as well.

I wonder, just a bit out loud, if JW Bush is really so foolish as to think that now that he is leaving office, it will all be forgive and forget? Surely this poorly informed, former drunk can’t be so foolish as to think the world will ever forgive him for hatching one of the more useless wars we have engaged in, nor are they likely to forget that when the countries economy was entering dire straits, he was trying to save his reputation, but in the end just stumbled once again with the every worsening housing crises.

Most of all, I hope that congress will reduce his funding for a presidential library to something more fitting like a broken down book mobile stocked with books about goats and other more fitting figures for a man that shows as much compassion toward the common man as … well, I honestly can’t think of anything bad enough to compare.

Perhaps it was a fitting gesture to toss heals at a heal, but “W” better watch his step; if this is a fitting tribute he might have a harder time dodging that flying jackass that will certainly be coming his way!
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Jim, Cheny did not profit from Haliburton as he signed away all profits to charity prior to becoming VP.
and how about his wife ?????????????
No matter how many opinions are offered in defense of this administration's actions, they carry no weight in that which I witnessed. As a U.S. citizen, I was horrified by almost everything they proposed. It was so awful, that it soon became laughable. Like it wasn't real. Day after day of blunder. One couldn't imagine anything worse happening, yet a new low was attained EVERY SINGLE DAY! Our country was looted. Many people, of many nations, killed. Trust by other nations has eroded. I have always said that Bush should serve twenty years. In an Alabama state prison, that is. And don't get me started on Cheney. Bush even proposed privatizing social security. Imagine where these funds would be today, had that come to pass. Did you hear what Bush answered in a recent television interview when asked what it was that he would miss the most as he was leaving office? He said meeting with the families of the fallen soldiers. Too, too surreal.
Hedistuff
"No matter how many opinions are offered in defense of this administration's actions, they carry no weight in that which I witnessed. As a U.S. citizen, I was horrified by almost everything they proposed."

Wondering then Hedistuff, why attacks on that administration has to be in the form of lies? Ie: Cheney profiting from Haliburton's involvement, Bush lying when he said Iraq had WMDs when in reality , that was the intelligence given to him by the CIA and enthusiastically endorsed by it's head months later after the invasion.

Interesting that you give weight to lies and rhetoric but none to the truth or, at the very least, attempts to explain their points of view.
As an executive at Lockheed, Cheney's wife still profits.

The president knew what weapons were in Iraq, because the
USA has been SUPPLING Iraq with arms versus Iran.
I noticed you didn't refute the oil profits, which is the MAIN reason.
So Iraq is the 6th largest importer of oil to the USA.
That's not small potatoes.
I didn't say Cheney's wife isn't allowed a job.
I said she profits from the war.
That's because Kuwait is already a USA friendly provider of oil.
See your list above.
Well you've certainly kicked up a reaction with this one! Seriously, who throws a shoe? The reporter is going to prison...as he should. You know (probably better than most) that I will weep with joy when W leaves the White House, but I was appalled that any diplomat -- U.S. or otherwise -- would be treated in that manner. He is still the president after all, an accomplishment that many would like to have achieved. Even he deserves better. If we want more from our elected officials, we must do better ourselves.

I've missed you my friend.
"You know (probably better than most) that I will weep with joy when W leaves the White House, but I was appalled that any diplomat -- U.S. or otherwise -- would be treated in that manner. He is still the president after all, an accomplishment that many would like to have achieved."

Exactly. So many forget that it is in essence an attack on the USA (and in fact, one of the shoes hit the US flag.)
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