Most of you have already seen the video above when an Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush in Baghdad and where President Bush shrugs it off:
“So what if the guy threw his shoe at me?” Bush told a reporter in response to a question about the incident.
“Let me talk about the guy throwing his shoe. It’s one way to gain attention. It’s like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It’s like driving down the street and having people not gesturing with all five fingers. …
Aside from increasing security measures to include shoes as deadly weapon, what have you learned or affirmed here?
The Shoe attack on Bush reminds me of some people I know throwing ad-hominem attacks. There will always be trolls, troublemakers, bullies and attention-seekers in real life or cyberspace. Reality is, not everyone will like you. The more high profile you are, the more the criticisms. The more successful you are, the more some people will want to see you fail.
There are more important issues to attend to than focus on the shoe attack.
Like Bush, the attitude I will take is “so what if they throw shoes at me?” and then, I will just laugh it off.
Bush can be a funny guy .. I bet if he wasn’t the “leader of the free world” he’d make a great comedian.
But since he has so much power, it stops being funny…
I like his attitude – it’s quite fitting … for a comedian. As a leader, well … I don’t think I need to comment to be honest, we all know how great a leader is.
When I saw the video, I learned that Pres. Bush has still strong reflexes. I also learned that if you want to hit something, you have to practice a lot of target shooting.
Kidding aside, we can only do our best. But we can never please everybody.
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LOL, tama Angel! Yup, Bush will always have his fair share of admirers and haters;
Pres. Bush needs to be strong in dealing with those kind of stuff, para tuloy naging fad ang Shoe throwing =) hehe..
My classmates and I are sold that the journalist should have just thrown his shoe at Bush instead of yelling first. Imagine what would it be like if the shoe really hit Bush? LOLZ
I’d say, the journalist’s shoe-throwing, however ‘inappropriate’ it may be, is one of the most concrete expression of the Iraqi people’s sentiment about the US and its occupation of their homeland.
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A recent attack on the Italian president actually reminded me of this, so I went back to find the clip and I must say that I really regret Bush got warned prior to the shoe being able to really hit him as well.