Cheap Laughs and Shoe Throwers

December 16, 2008

Oh boy, aren’t the liberals having fun with the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq. Yeah, it was funny as all hell but there’s more than a little something irksome about the card-carrying members of the do-nothing Dems snickering over it. I mean, come on, these are the same folks who found “impolite” demands for impeachment too “shrill;” not to mention their outright disdain for anti-war activism that – oh my – asked “yes or no” questions.

But shoe throwing at a president of the “other party”? Fucking hilarious. Inspired. And to be congratulated. But, please, keep your antics on the other sides of the big ponds and directed at the “others.” In other words, at a safe distance so as to not frightened the sleeping liberals.

I’m guessing that the first time a rightwing nutjob – you know, someone like Vermont’s Paul Beaudry – decides to fling a boot at Obama (or Welch, Sanders or Leahy) – these liberal kindergarten pundits won’t find it so funny.

As for me, I’m an equal opportunity laugher – let the shoes and boots be flung.

But before I drop the other shoe on this, I must say – begrudgingly – that Bush handled it really well. The smirk on his face after coming up from ducking the first shoe made me think that he was having some kind of college frat-prank flashback. “Ha! Good one, boys! Got me!”

And, of course, that’s exactly how Bush and his White House spokespeople tried to spin it. Bush joked about the size of the shoe and his spokespeople tried to make sure they looked like they “got” the humor of it all.

But while the partisan Dems giggle from delight over it and the partisan Repubs giggle from embarrassment over it, those of us remaining are left pondering the real meaning of it: Why are we still in Iraq?

The shoe thrower wasn’t joking. Bush and a complicit United States of America has ravaged his country, killed his family members and torched his immediate future. He was angry and doing something about it.

Imagine if we all could be that brave.

Posted by M. Colby | Filed Under blog 

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One Response to “Cheap Laughs and Shoe Throwers”

  1. Peter Buknatski on December 17th, 2008 12:29 pm

    ‘Throwin’-Shoes’ will no doubt become a novelty product of the Left (the Left sucks, Michael–all of us) and perhaps a new craze of Yuppiedom. Not to mention the sexual angles–”Shoe me, babie–throw the other one!” Or is that domestic abuse?

    We have Obama cause the Left has the same tired message: “We’re pure and true–THEY are bad. No union organizing in my Diversity Shoppe/Bistro/Whatever. We deserve a great big hug. And a tax break.” Better Obama than a WHITE liberal.

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