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I find it amazing that the dimwit’s reflexes weren’t tied in with his IQ.
Cheap shot Matt. Neither of us know how history will judge President Bush, but I guarantee it will be kinder to him than the contemporary media is.
I cannot understand how some people – our enemies and the left – are calling the shoe thrower a “hero.”
He is a coward because he speaks “truth” to a power that he knew would not harm him for this stunt. He would never have dared it under Saddam because he would have been fed into a wood chipper.
He is a hypocrite because the only reason he had the freedom to do this was due to Bush and our military.
He is an imbecile because he is too stupid to realize this.
And anyone who considers him “brave” and “heroic” for this is an imbecile as well.
Davies, those shoes were thrown at me, you, and your adopted country.
It should turn your stomach–at least as much as your pernicious scratchings turn mine.
Dear Joe the plumber, It is true that the only reason the man can throw a shoe without getting to know the wood chipper is because of G.W. and our military. However, the only reason that you are able to speak your mind and call people an imbicile is because a group of people a long time ago stood up and threw a shoe at the British, which ironically is what you are doing when you attack Matt.
Dear proud American
And a reason we threw out the British is because they gave our Founding Fathers the philosophical basis for individual freedom and representation. So what’s your point?
And I don’t see how I attacked Matt, I made a comment on his cartoon and the idea behind it. I thought comments were welcome at this site.
Or is it strictly limited to fawning admiration?
Well for starters, I have no point. I usually just write things to waste time at work! But calling the cartoon a “cheap shot” could be considered an attack. And all comments are welcome as far as I know, even stupid ones like yours. but let’s not fight. love and peace should be the spirit. For the record, fawning admiration is way off. I tell Matt when I think he’s off his rocker. But I don’t think history will judge G.W. favorably, and if I had the chance I’d throw my socks at him too.
Joe—Check out Mike Peters’ 12/12 cartoon. Bush will be remembered more for his failure at everything in life. His one success, The Texas Rangers, was based on duping the public into buying him the stadium that kept them from being utterly worthless.
Even if Iraq becomes a success at some point in the future it won’t be remembered for having been based on truth and intellectual honesty. (Granted the public shares the blame for being browbeaten into such a sham, but that will be remembered as well.) He will be remembered for having been on vacation and slashing taxes rather than watching out for our enemies. He will be remembered for the under-regulation and collapse of the economy. He will be remembered as the semi-literate, conniving and foolish ideologue that he is, was and always will be.
Remember to take pay attention to what he is doing on his way out the door. And don’t ever forget the Project for the New American Century, they told us in 1997 what they were going to do, and then they did it.
And regarding your response to pA, The Enlightenment that gave rise to our forefathers was European, not just British.
The gift that keeps on giving:
Bush gives Presidential Citizens Medal to Chuck Colson. That’s right, his love of clean politics and integrity shines through. Not a day goes by that W doesn’t contribute yet another squirt to the p!ssbucket that is his legacy.
It is foolish for anyone to think they know how history will judge this President. That was my criticism of this cartoon. No one thought, on 9-11-01, that we would go 7 years + without another attack. Next time we are attacked, Bush will look good in retrospect.
To say that he knew there were no WMDs in Iraq and fooled the world into believing otherwise is simply rewriting history to fit your own prejudices. Everyone, including the Clinton administration, believed Iraq had them.
I hope you people someday regain your rational faculties enough to drop this demented BDS you suffer from.
BDS is total BS. Downing Street Memo.
Joe,
Yes, 7+ years without an attack, but Bush was in office when we were attacked on 9/11. You seem to forget that. That is part of his legacy.
He will not look good if we are attacked in the future. He has enflamed the world with more terror not slowed it down. So he will be rightfully blamed.
I’m with Joe, George Bush is the true hero in all of this, not some guy who can’t keep his shoes on. Some day we are all going to be thankful for all that G.W. has done for our country. It takes brains and guts to do what he’s done. He will go down in history as one of the best and most courageous presidents ever. Way to stand up for what you beleive in Joe.
I hope that is sarcasm.
Lowest approval rating ever, most animosity abroad, worst economy since The Great Depression, torture, domestic spying, Katrina, pollution, cronyism, $9B “missing” in Iraq, $10T in debt, out of control deficit, killing of Habeus Corpus (700 years old) and posse comitatus, selling the gov’t to corrupt contractors and lobbyists, outing an undercover CIA agent, ad
freakingnauseam…Pardoning the guy who poisoned some Bald Eagles should be a nice symbol of what he’s done to this country.
I meant to put asterisks around the word barf and the system made it a quote.
Mcgriff even though Bush is an idiot i give total blame for 9/11 to Clinton. All of these terror cowards got into this
country under his watch. Clinton cared less about controlling immigration and they all came in under his
administration. Bush has done nothing about immigration either but Clinton caused that mess. Can’t wait to see what
happens with Obama at the helm. what a moron he is for appointing the Arizona Governor as homeland secuity chief.
She is an open borders advocate. Open borders? can you believe it? I’m just going to sit around now and wait for the next big disaster to happen under Obama.
mcgriff, sarcasm would be to ask Lalas if he could be a bit more clear on his oppinion of Bush. I’m not quite sure where he’s comming from.
Bulldog…
If we follow your line of thinking can we blame a reunified Germany for allowing the 9/11 terrorists safe passage to the West? Many of them lived in a democratic Germany while waiting for visas to the US. And er, who was the guy who said “tear down this wall”? Heck may as well blame the founding fathers for putting our freedoms (which do seem to upset most terrorists) in writing.
All of which does, to be fair, give credence to Joe’s point about being unsure of how historians will remember leaders and interpret the entirely unintended consequences of their actions.
What’s living in Germany have to do with how we let their visas expire in this country Matt? germany is not the U.S. – We should have a system in place that we can track anybody anywhere. clinton turned his back and Bush has done nothing
in the aftermath. Those borders should have been nailed shut
on 9/12/01 until we figured out a system to keep track of
the visitors in this country.
A great way to protect our freedoms would be to give them up. Then we could live in a police state where all people are tracked. After all, how can you just track visitors?
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
What’s living in Germany have to do with how we let their visas expire in this country Matt? germany is not the U.S. – We should have a system in place that we can track anybody anywhere.
Speaking of “democratic Germany…” Until the collapse of the Berlin Wall, I think we knocked the Stasi for operating that way in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Is that what we want?
I don’t think that we need to track everyone, just the terrorists!
Before 9/11/01 i would agree with Richard and pete but since
then everything has changed and we must change with it. I’m not saying put a camera on everyone all i’m asking is that
we know who is coming and going in this country and be able
to have control and follow up when their visas expire. We all have had to give up freedoms because of this tragedy.
Everywhere i go now i must go through a metal detector where before 9/11 i did not have to. A small inconvienance to insure safety.
Joe et al… the shoe thrower has the right to throw a shoe, you are correct on that. So you would have it that he reserve the right to throw a shoe but never actually act upon the feeling to throw a shoe. So instead of Saddam preventing him from throwing a shoe he should prevent himself from throwing shoes.
That’s the same idiocy that says “our soldiers are dying in Iraq to defend your liberties, so stop using your liberties.”
Maybe the shoe-thrower’s contempt comes from the absolutely lousy job Bush did AFTER the overthrow of Saddam. You know the occupation that Shinseki said would take 3x soldiers as Rummy thought; the looting that Rummy said was to be expected. Maybe he’s happy to be out from under Saddam’s thumb, but unhappy that his family/friends/neighbors are being killed because of the inept leadership of an occupying force.
Maybe the French would invade us to coerce us back into honoring our Constitution and being free, rather than sacrificing our ideals and choosing to live in a Police State. Then the French bungled it, and those idiots in Alabama take over in the ensuing power vacuum. How would that make you feel, having to marry your sister because the French don’t know how to win a war?
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – BF
I would hate to live in your America, Bulldog. In your America the terrorists have already won,
On the positive side, an aggressively sealed border would’ve kept this cartoonist out, back in ‘83.
The terrorists have already won in any America McGriff.
They hit us when Clinton and Bush were in office.
Both a Dem. and Repub. were in charge.
Why did you come here Illegally Matt? Did you come and over stay your visa? Not sure where you’re coming from.
Bulldog, you’re like a guy who keeps hitting himself in the head with a hammer and wonders why he always has a headache. There’s very little learning. You voted for Bush twice, but you now call him an idiot. I would think that would give you pause about your judgment over issues you seem so sure about.
It is so sad that our president is so deservedly unpopular that while we conceptually don’t approve of someone throwing a shoe at our president, we understand why someone would want to humiliate and shame Bush. The simplicity and symbolism of throwing a shoe at Bush is remarkable. After Bush recently refused (in the face of all of the heart-breaking evidence)to do the right thing and put polar bears on the endangered species list, all of my usual sympathy and compassion were gone. I am sorry to admit it but I laughed when I watched the video and thought that if a polar bear had been at the press conference, he would have done the same thing!
I always thought that bulldogs were smarter than that. This one clearly has no sense of humor. You can’t tell when someone is joking, or do you really just not get most things. Our own leaders are the ones who spread fear and dispare. They are clearly the terrorist, and they have won.
When did i ever say i voted for Bush McGriff? i didn’t vote
for him in either election. I didn’t vote at all because
Bush sucked and so did the Dem’s. I have stated that i did vote for Obama over McCain but i don’t put much stock in any poitician.
Dog trainer our leaders do spread fear but so do other leaders and terrorist groups. Don’t just blame the U.S.
I love how all the Republicans I know now call themselves Libertarians, and nobody ever voted for Bush.
Like it or not, that shoe was thrown at each and every American.
The people in charge are ELECTED. They represent us. To the world at large, you and I ARE George Bush, and GWB is us. But forget Bush. He’s retired. Now its Obama that stands in for us all.
I don’t give a damn what any of the retired presidents do. Let’s see how great everything gets after Jan 20.
Any bets?
Does anyone else have any experience with this?