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Smiling JOe

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I bet Secret Service detail is now running through the scenario, "What if there was a small bomb in the heal of that shoe, which was thrown on stage?"
 

Smiling JOe

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Bush is able to laugh it off because he is a twit! Obama would handle the situation w/ aplomb, but as he isn't HATED abroad, I predict less flying footwear during his presidency.

Double uber-insult if you know their culture - dogs and feet/shoes are both very unclean! Just being touched by a foot or a shoe is a major deal - so chucking them publicly at a leader while calling names :eek:.

I wonder what the "people abroad" will think about Obama getting a dog to live in the house with his family. :scratch:
 

scooterbug44

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I wonder what the "people abroad" will think about Obama getting a dog to live in the house with his family. :scratch:

Most are okay with others using clean dogs as pets/protection - it's characterizing a person as a dog (or using police dogs to intimidate prisoners), dirty dogs/stray dogs, them personally dealing w/ the dogs that is the issue.

Same as if Obama eats pork - it's okay as long as he doesn't serve it to them.

The Quran goes back and forth on the dog issue - in some places dogs are welcomed companions and hunters, in others you have to wash anything a dog touches 7x, so most Muslims avoid dogs and rarely keep them as pets.

The shoe/feet thing is still the bigger insult - when they toppled Saddam's statue they hit it in the face w/ shoes and they decorate posters of Bush w/ shoes. They even put a mosaic floor w/ Bush Sr's face on it in the lobby of a building - so everyone walked on him - we tore it up after we invaded again! :roll:
 

Smiling JOe

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So what you are saying is that the reporter really wouldn't have liked it if Bush had thrown the shoes back at the man.
 

Rudyjohn

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Feb 10, 2005
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Then Bush says, "I don't know what his beef is" referring to the offender. Is he kidding? What the hell?! I'd say it has everything to do with the war. Bush is an idiot and once again, proved it. Sorry, this isn't about his agility or one of his endearing qualities. Not in my book.
 

avalon

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I bet Secret Service detail is now running through the scenario, "What if there was a small bomb in the heal of that shoe, which was thrown on stage?"
That was my first thought too! Hard to believe the SS did not notice this guy taking his shoes off. Assault with a smelly weapon.
 

Matt J

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Then Bush says, "I don't know what his beef is" referring to the offender. Is he kidding? What the hell?! I'd say it has everything to do with the war. Bush is an idiot and once again, proved it. Sorry, this isn't about his agility or one of his endearing qualities. Not in my book.

I don't think "what's his beef" goes over very well in India.
 
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