Bush has Excellent Reflexes, Great Smirk, too

President Bush barely flinches, and stares the little coward reporter-shoe-thrower (is there any other kind?) down.

Reuters: Bush made light of it. “I didn’t feel the least threatened by it,” he said.

Other Iraqi journalists apologized on behalf of their colleague, a television journalist.

SOME REACTIONS:

Bush barely flinched.After the first shoe he turned directly at the thrower as he threw the second and merely ducked his head a little then he put up his hand to his security detail to stand down.It seemed like he was smirking a little.

NeoKong

Bush… not only rocks this world but would also make an awesome dodge ball partner…

Kaptain Amerika

The President is looking at this at guy and smiling after deflecting his shoe. What a class act he is.

Where was the Secret Service? That guy should have been shot in the head before he got the first shoe off.

Hening

Can you imagine if he’d tried to throw his shoe at President Kerry?

jimmy the notable

did this guy have the guts to do something like this to Saddam?

joey24007

I wonder if that Iraqi journalist realizes the difference between today and six years ago. Back then, had he done that to Saddam, the least painful thing would have been his feet taken off and tossed back at him.

Sergeant Tim

They are such a child like people, but in a kind of retarded, sh1tty kind of way.

TheSitRep

Wow, Bush has some serious dodging skills.

iamse7en

To paraphrase from Patches O’Houlihan: “If you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a ball!”

p40tiger

If Sarah Palin were at that podium when this happened, she would have gotten her heels and send them flying like ninchucks at that jerk reporter so he wouldn’t mess with the ‘Cuda.

President Bush has great instincts and timing. Classy guy taking the high road.
If I were President Bush, I seriously would have gone after the guy.
But, you know the reporters would have defended the jerk instead of the president. ‘60 Minutes’ would have an expose and paint the Iraqi reporter as a harmless man. Sort of like most of their reports against our president and military.

jencab

Well now we know Bush’s reflexes are better than the Secret Service. I can’t believe they let this guy launch two shoes at the President.

Done That

He should have caught the second one, looked at it, said, “sorry, not my size, but thanks anyway,” and tossed it back.

p40tiger

but do you mean to tell me none of you laughed?
It looked like Bush was laughing, or at least had a big grin, after the first one sailed by.

jgapinoy on December 14, 2008 at 3:28 PM

I thought the President’s reaction was pretty smooth. His little smirk as if to say ‘is that all you got Ahmed’ was sweet, and I bet Dana Perino was one of the first ones on the little twit.

thomasaur

The Superficial has this to say:

President George Bush had shoes thrown at him during a press conference in Baghdad yesterday. An Iraqi journalist, who surprisingly didn’t get his ass shot, whipped not one but BOTH of his shoes at the president after calling him a “dog.” Personal feelings of Bush aside, you gotta admit the bastard is quick which will apparently come in handy considering the Secret Service are lame-ducking it themselves.  To emphasize my point, check out the agent who hops up to the stage after the attack then acts like he’s on top of things: “No, Mr. President, I wasn’t just playing gameboy.  Hey, there’s shoes back here…”

Some Comments from the Superficial:

Bickus Dickus – December 15, 2008 8:29 AM

What they’re not reporting is the droves of other Iraqi “reporters” who were profusely thanking President Bush for freeing Iraq from the terrorizing reign of Sadaam Hussein. Iraq had no “free press” before President Bush, and the reporter who threw the shoes at Bush should also be thanking him, for he now has the freedom to throw shoes. Where as before if he had thrown something at Hussein, he would have been dipped in acid and fed through a paper shredder by now. Whatever you say about Bush, we’ve been safe here in the US by bringing the war to the terrorists since 9/11.

Tiny Tim – December 15, 2008 8:11 AM

God. I would have not been able to contain my laughter if someone had thrown shoes at me, and then i ducked them, and watched someone epic fail and get the shit tackled out of them afterwords.

Some people need to calm down a bit.

Bickus Dickus – December 15, 2008 11:20 AM

Yes, Iraq was much better off before we liberated them. They loved being tortured and raped by Uday and Kusay’s lynchmen. They loved being dipped in acid and fed through woodchippers for speaking out against Sadaam. They loved watching their children raped and tortured. They loved eating dirt, having no hospitals, no schools, no free speech, no free press, no access to satelitte TV, no human rights whatsoever. Yes, it was a grand ol’ time living in Iraq under Sadaam. Yes, they were a proud people, a happy people, who danced through the streets made of gold, a Utopia in the desert, where streams ran with chocolate and children played in lollypop orchards with gumdrop smiles…..

You fucking liberals make me wanna puke. I hope you all die gruesome deaths at the hands of terrorists when you travel overseas to protest America’s war against terror….fucking lunatic retards. America doesn’t need you. You’re part of the problem.

Dar – December 15, 2008 12:37 PM

It would really have been impressive if that oh-so-brave and patriotic journalist had thrown his shoes at Saddam Hussein back when he was still in power. After that journalist had been tortured for a few weeks, he’d probably have been strapped in a chair gnashing his teeth (if he had any left) and digging his fingernails (if he had any left) into the arms of the chair as he watched Saddam’s goons torture and execute every member of his family (not to mention the raping of the female family members). Then they’d have taken his beaten and broken body and tossed him while still alive into one of their favorite toys: the industrial plastic shredder!

Apparently that was the Iraqi paradise that this journalist approved of and he hates GWB for ending it. Who can blame him?