One Way to Bring Him to Heel

Sorry, had to do that. If you haven't seen it yet, here's the video of an Iraqi reporter hurling not one, but both, of his shoes at outgoing President GW Bush during a press conference in Baghdad over the weekend:



Here's a bit of fantastic satire, one that does have a bite of serious truth. I mean, where were the Secret Service? What if that shoe had been outfitted to explode on impact?

And while he's joking about the shoe size of the hurler, news comes that White House Press Secretary Dana Perino received a black eye during the melee.

All the more reason to read (or re-read) this fantastic piece by Paul Waldman that a reader passed on to me this morning. Money quote:

Goodbye, we can say at last, to the most powerful man in the world being such a ridiculous buffoon, incapable of stringing together two coherent sentences. Goodbye to cringing with dread every time our president steps onto the world stage, sure he'll say or do something to embarrass us all. Goodbye to being represented by a man who embodies everything our enemies want the people of the world to believe about America -- that we are ignorant, cruel, and only care about foreign countries when we decide to stomp on them. Goodbye to his giggle, and his shoulder shake, and his nicknames. Goodbye to a president who talks to us like we're a nation of fourth-graders.