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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby HeckuvaJob » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 11:39:22

I think its sooooo cute that some of you still believe there's a difference b/w the Dems and Reps. How nostalgic!
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Re: Bush Attacked With Shoes At Iraq Press Conference

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:56:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'I') hope he has a real good bunker after he leaves office.


Well, there's the ranch in Paraguay. He should be fairly safe there. Everyone he's pissed off will be too poor to travel that far.
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Re: Bush Attacked With Shoes At Iraq Press Conference

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:59:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('drgoodword', ' ') While I am deeply opposed to all things Bush, the guy ducked those shoes like a champion and stood his ground. If only he was that nimble and cool-headed in presidential matters more important than shoe-ducking.


Yup.

Bush showed some moves. It would've been worse if the shoes had hit him, or if Bush hadn't restrained the secret service guys and a melee had occurred.

Nonetheless, I bet Obama could have done an even better job of ducking shoes with his basketball reflexes. He would've made it look cool somehow.
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Re: Bush Attacked With Shoes At Iraq Press Conference

Unread postby Nickel » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 14:09:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'G')uess the press are all going to surrender their shoes before they're admitted to the press conference from now on.


Yeah, from now on, all press conferences will be held in the nude, like a bunch of monkeys... I wonder what they'll come up with to fling then. :lol:
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 14:16:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'A')h, the good old days when Saddam would have torture the journalist and buried him in an unmarked grave. Bush frees his sorry a&& country and then does this crap.


$10 says this reporter already has electrodes attached to his genitals and he's being "convinced" to turn in all of his neighbors and relatives as we speak.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby threadbear » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 14:20:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'A')h, the good old days when Saddam would have torture the journalist and buried him in an unmarked grave. Bush frees his sorry a&& country and then does this crap.


Oh for the good old days when Saddam was in power, and journalists could have buried Bush in an avalanche of shoes, and then a state holiday declared in their honour.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Revi » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 14:26:49

Bush was asked why it happened, and he said that the guy probably wanted to be on TV.

The guy who threw the shoes is a TV reporter for an Egyptian station.

Maybe the guy was a little ticked off. He gets plenty of TV time already.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby eastbay » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 14:33:25

"This is a farewell kiss, you dog," al-Zeidi yelled in Arabic as he threw his shoes. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."

Now that's a true national hero. After the last of the illegal occupation forces depart this guy will be elected President of a free Iraq.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby HeckuvaJob » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 15:39:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'N')ow that's a true national hero. After the last of the illegal occupation forces depart this guy will be elected President of a free Iraq.

I think eastbay really hit the... nail on the head:
Arabs Across Middle East Hail Shoe-Hurling Journalist As Hero
I thought those press lights were supposed to be blinding.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby seahorse2 » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 16:43:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hope_full', 'F')ishman, I think I'm in love...

Obama is going to try another go at FDR's Keynesian "let's outspend the depression" crap and that didn't work too well in the 1930s. And those many decades ago, America was in much better shape than today.

Here's a link to the article you referenced, where WP ombudsman Deborah Howell says the coverage in the Post was very much in favor of the Big 0.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03523.html


Hate to break some news to you, but Bush already started the spending spree. In fact, it started 8 years ago, but with $8.5 trillion lent this year and all, not to mention all the guarantees of Fannie and Freddie debt, Citi debt etc., anything Obama does is just icing on the cake.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby untothislast » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 18:41:09

The guy's a patsy. He couldn't have thrown that second shoe . . there had to be someone else, someone else on the sandy knoll . . unless . . unless, it was some sort of 'magic shoe' . .
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby oowolf » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 18:47:21

Repeat after me:
JAIL 4 BUSH
JAIL 4 BUSH
JAIL 4 BUSH
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Frank » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 21:38:37

Reagan showed that trickle-down doesn't work and Bush relearned this same lesson the hard way (thanks a lot.) Obama will take a different approach and I predict we'll see slow - but steady - improvements. He also won't repeat some of the mistakes that FDR made, like trying to balance the budget!

The best line in the shoe throwing episode was when GWB said: "All I can report is that it was a size 10."

Ba-da BOOM!
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Re: Bush Attacked With Shoes At Iraq Press Conference

Unread postby Micki » Mon 15 Dec 2008, 22:22:05

I love it.
That guy has started a new movement.
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Shoes! We must all gather shoes!
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(I knew I had seen this somewhere before :P )
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Fiddlerdave » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 06:21:25

You ALL have been FOOLED!

That was not a shoe he was throwing to the president, it was the long-promised FLOWERS!

Sadly, the Iranians turned on their Improbability Drive, and it converted the flowers into a shoe. When the reporter saw his first boquet get transformed, he threw a second, and it changed too. The reporter was so flustered, he bungled his poem of love from Iraq's widows and orphans for Bush! Honest!

(We must bomb Iran to stop their Advanced Technology!)
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Cog » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 06:29:30

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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Cloud9 » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 07:43:15

You folks don’t get it. You’ve got the embodiment of the full force and power of the United States ducking shoes. In the minds of many Arabs we are done. The price of that misconception will be paid in blood and tears.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby JJ » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 08:02:11

he just wanted to be on TV.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Fishman » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 09:45:38

CORRECTION

You folks don’t get it. You’ve got the embodiment of the full force and power of the ARAB WORLD throwing shoes but nothing else. In the minds of many Arabs this was a great act. The price of that misconception will be paid in blood and tears as they continue to kill each other at incredible rates.
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Re: "This Is A Good-Bye Kiss, You Dog!"

Unread postby Fishman » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 09:47:19

Wow, looks like we'll soon be chanting
JAIL 4 'BAMA
JAIL 4 'BAMA

And he's not even in office yet.
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