It Didn't Take A thrown Shoe to Make Bush a Pariah

I've heard some wiseacres say that the only thing that the Iraqi shoe thrower should be jailed for is missing Bush. I'm not going there with that. After all, Nikita Khrushchev simply banged his shoe in 1960 on a table at a United Nations General Assembly meeting, to protest discussion of Soviet Union policy toward Eastern Europe. But the tossed shoe was emblematic of the sad, sorry, pathetic depth that Bush has sunk too. A couple of weeks earlier at the summit of world leaders not one of them shook his hand as he passed them by in the receiving line.

Bush knew he was a pariah among his peers. If this shame insult and public humiliation wasn't bad enough. Word leaked out shortly after that not one major publisher would touch the obligatory self-serving, scrubbed memoirs that ex presidents like to dump on the public (and that largely gather dust on book store shelves) Of course, the world, and Bush in a quiet moment, knows that there's only one person to blame for his much deserved ignominy and that person is named Bush. That didn't take a lousy aimed shoe too drive that point home.