do you know how well-respected the shoe-thrower is in the middle east? kind of says a lot about how they view your country over in that part of the world. although who can blame them, really...

 

"they don't like us! we'd better invade them!"

 

typical right wing neo-con attitude. the world has moved on from you and your bankrupt ideology. move along now, let the grown-ups talk.

why should i or anyone not in the middle-east care how respected the shoe-thrower is in the middle-east.  I don't care, i think he's an idiot for throwing his shoes.  i didn't like that he threw his shoe at my president, I'd rather he just yelled something or organized a protest....but throwing your shoes?  I understand it was the only 'weapon' he felt he had, but when you attack someone they shouldn't be laughing at you when you're done.  I'm sorry but 2 shoes thrown, 2 thrown shoes that missed, one american president laughing at you.....that's a fail, man.  the man has balls, I'll give him that much, but it's still a fail. 

 

 

wow a 4 second protest....I'm impressed.  and given the chance....noone else did it.  by your theory anyone in the room who didn't like bush should have started throwing their shoes....noone did.  by your theory of 'protest' people could have started throwing their shoes at anything american as a symbol of support for shoe-thrower and in protest of bush....the media would love that and yet...nothing.  instead of joining his shoe-throwing protest of america's invasion of Iraq, ousting of it's dictator and trying to bring peace....someone is offering his daughter.  wow, how perfectly disappointing.  they could have used his 'protest' to launch larger protests, but it was business as usual.  they could have used him as a beacon of hope, a rallying cry to bring more iraqis to the anti-american cause...they didn't even try.  so perhaps this should go down as a failure of the local leaders of anti-american or at least anti-bush movements to build on mr shoe throwers protest.  

 

what if noone joined Dr King jr, they just heaped praise on him and offered their daughters?  What if someone had thrown their shoe at the berlin wall and was praised for his action and nothing else was done? 

 

Praise the guy if you want.  If you agree with his 'protest', great that's your right.  But don't let it end there, build on it.  Rally people to the cause and keep it going, make sure he's there in the front of it all and keep throwing shoes.  but they haven't.  so maybe the fail belongs to those who have praised but not joined him.