A shoe? Why a shoe?
Why not an axe or a knife?
Because it’s dull you twit, it’ll hurt more.
That exchange brought to you courtesy of the way back machine and one terrible move: Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. In the film he wasn’t asking why a shoe and not a knife, he was asking why a spoon and not a knife. I just changed it to shoe in light of recent events in Iraq. In case you didn’t hear, an Iraqi journalist threw first one shoe, and then the other, at our beloved President Bush while yelling not such nice things at him. (this is a huge insult in a Muslim culture, remember the images of men doing this to pictures of Saddam immediately after his fall? Bush has come full circle.) I think I speak for the majority of the human race when I say: I wish that happened in Holland.
The clock is ticking on this lunatic loser of a man who has pretended to be president for 8 long and dark years. And the walls are closing in on him. Not welcome in Iraq. Not welcome in the vast majority of the US. What’s he gonna do, move to Europe? I don’t think so, Sparky.
He’s got no further ambitions to move him forward in life. He’s not going to pull a Carter that’s for sure, the only man to use the office of the Presidency as a stepping stone to greater things. (although it could be argued Clinton did so as well, what wth all of his foundation work. What’s the deal with repub presidents leaving office and doing nothing- Reagan- and Dem presidents leaving office and trying to save the world.) What the hell is Busg going to do with his time now? Let me be the first to say: I don’t give a damn. He will never be in any position of real power over anything again, even if survives to be 150 years old. Which would actually be fine with me. To steal from Westley in The Princes Bride: “Whatever happens to us, I want him to live a long life alone with his cowardice.” He will be hated everywhere he goes for the rest of his life, so why not hope that hell of an existence lasts as long as possible? Perhaps after 30 or 40 years, he may begin to realize the true damage he has allowed to occur while he was at the helm of the US and, arguably, the World. He’s got it comin’. Unfortunately, as we all learned from the late, great William Munny in Unforgiven: “We all got it comin’, kid.” Maybe so, but some of us more so than others.
Anyway, that’s all a long way of saying that whoever that dude is that threw his shoes at Chimpy McFlightsuit deserves a goddamned Medal of Freedom. Or at the very least, a big pat on the back. Thanks, friend. For doing what Americans can’t. Not because we don’t want to, but because we can’t get within a mile of the guy.