Dec 14, 2008; The Shoe Heard Round The World

[Dennis Donovan]

A simpler time...

[Rhiannon12866]

1. And much happier times, too!

Back when we could still laugh!

[WheelWalker]

4. Truth.

[Dennis Donovan]

12. Or, if Monty Python were involved...

[Rhiannon12866]

33. And he thinks that's amusing, too!

[HipChick]

2. Thanks for posting...

Simpler time indeed...

[Victor_c3]

3. My favorite bush moment n/t

[llmart]

5. I will never forget that moment.

I did a fist pump when I saw it and laughed out loud! Well deserved.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

22. Hell, Bush laughed at it.

He thought it was funny. He didn't realize that throwing shoes at people is the consummate insult in the Middle East.

[Rorey]

6. Gotta admit

He was pretty good at dodging the shoes. Nothing else. Just that.

[Polybius]

17. He was in much better shape than what we have in their now

[Rorey]

7. I'd love to see a shoe hurled at Individual 1

He wouldn't duck. It would be amusing.

[True Dough]

11. Yes, Individual 1 would surely hurt himself by trying to move quickly

He's all heel!

[mountain grammy]

15. Thought the same thing.

He’d be starring at it until it hit his ugly puss.

[AdamGG]

23. Dotard would have insisted on this guy's execution

and the shoe would have left a big smudge in his makeup after he was too slow to dodge it

[montana_hazeleyes]

28. A big ole

Shaq shoe. There was one of his real shoes on display at a sporting goods store uptown where I live and as folks can imagine it was enormous. It was hard to believe that that shoe actually fit someone.

[jpak]

8. Didn't he also call him a Dog?

[Bucky]

9. Brings a tear to my eye... *sniff*

Wherever he is, I hope that dude is doing okay. As I recall, he got some jail time for that, yes?

[Polybius]

19. I think they killed him

It was in Iraq, wasn't it?

[Ron Obvious]

25. No, he's alive and well, fortunately.

Following the incident, Al-Zaidi was represented by the head of the Iraqi Bar Association at trial.[11] On 20 February 2009, al-Zaidi received a 90-minute trial by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.[12] On 12 March 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign head of state during an official visit. On 7 April, the sentence was reduced from three years to one year.[13] He was released on 15 September 2009 for good behavior, after serving nine months of the sentence.[14] After his release, Al-Zaidi was treated for injuries and later said he planned to "build orphanages, a children's hospital, and medical and orthopaedic centres offering free treatment and manned by Iraqi doctors and medical staff."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntadhar_al-Zaidi

[montana_hazeleyes]

29. I'm glad he got out for good behavior,

because that is some of the best behavior I've seen!

[phleshdef]

10. I still am always amused at how W has this look on his face like "oh boy, this is fun!".

[demmiblue]

13. A hella lot of dead people, displaced people, tortured people, etc.... nah. n/t

[Irishxs]

14. I Remember this

fast headshift on the part of George W.

[Polybius]

16. As much as I can't stand him, Bush had amazing reflexes

Almost as if he was used to getting shoes thrown at him.

[BigmanPigman]

18. I know, both shoes too.

Our current fucking moron would have been hit by both and not realize it for 5 minutes he is so dimwitted and sluggish.

[Polybius]

21. Absolutely agree

There is no way he could move as fast as Bush did then. Bush was 62 and in great shape for his age.

[2naSalit]

27. Kind of looks like

he's done this before.

[Cirque du So-What]

20. Nimble neocon nixes neoprene

Comes up smilin', knowing the shoe-thrower will be hung up by his thumbs shortly.

[NO TO FASCISM]

24. This is miracle

Trump has made me miss Bush

[Bucky]

34. Maybe you don't know anyone killed in the war Bush started

But I lost two of my students in Iraq. That was an entirely pointless war. Hundreds of thousands of people didn't have to be displaced or killed, but Bush thought it would ensure his re-election.

I will never miss Bush. I will never find amusement in his goofy antics. I can only see the lives and families and communities he has destroyed for his own vanity. Trump may be horrible and disloyal to the United States, but his crimes simply do not measure up to Bush's.

[NO TO FASCISM]

36. Sorry, it was just a joke. I was drafted during Vietnam

Your students volunteered, it was their choice. The friends I lost had no choice. Your students were proud to be doing their duty. For us it was: The unqualified leading, the unwilling to do, the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.
I am sorry for your loss.

[Brother Buzz]

37. This dumb draftee needs to point out many of the Bush era military personnel were victims of ....

the economic draft; the existing economy of that period gave young people few options beyond military service.

[NO TO FASCISM]

39. We would never have been in Afghanistan

for 17 years if we had the draft. The average person does not care unless a war touches them directly. At least now returning soldiers are not spat upon, they are honored as they should be.

[2naSalit]

26. I love that GIF!

I haven't seen that in a long time!

[ProudLib72]

30. But did he ever get his shoes back? That is the real question.

Which reminds me, was Individual 1 kind enough to remove Nancy's shoe from his ass, clean it, and return it to her?

[Saboburns]

31. My all time favorite. I watched the live broadcast.

And I really did fall on the floor, roll around laugh.

Just a perfection this. Camera angle is is great, the thrower is perfect. The ducker is perfect. The timing of the whole bit is perfect.

Thank you for this!

[Raine]

32. I'll hand it to him, he had great

reflexes to dodge that!

[lindysalsagal]

35. I love that guy .

Hope he's ok.

[Rhiannon12866]

40. Me, too.

He suffered serious consequences for what we all thought was kind of a joke in which no one was hurt.

[pressbox69]

38. Bush got off easy

when you consider what the Saudi pig did to the reporter.

[alterfurz]

41. Instead of coyly passing candy to Michelle and painting cutesy self-portraits...

...DuhBya should be picking up rubble in Iraq for the rest of his life, and forced to polish this shoe monument daily.

[lame54]

42. I'll never forgive that guy...

For missing