Dec 142008
On his final visit to Iraq, President Bush received a particularly emphatic farewell from a shoe-wielding Iraqi journalist. The president demonstrates quick reflexes in avoiding the flying footwear, which suggests to me that he has taken up dodgeball as preparation for the hazards that will accompany his life as a private citizen. I have a feeling there are plenty of people around the world who are also itching for an opportunity to throw shoes, pies, and assorted rotting vegetables at this man.
The reporter also called Bush a “dog”, an unnecessary insult to dogs everywhere.
If he came to Belgium, Bush would have great trouble avoiding our notorious creamcake-thrower from Flanders, who even flung a cake in the face of Bill Gates. On seeing the photograph of this event (the papers printed it all) the next day, I couldn’t suppress a mixture of pity for the innocent Gates and laughter because the sight was really, really funny.