At least one business is thriving during this global economic downturn. Turkish shoemaker Ramazan Baydan, who claims that his company designed and produced the shoe that the Iraqi journalist threw at President Bush, says he is swamped with orders and had to hire 100 extra workers. “People are calling from all over the world to order this shoe I designed a decade ago,” he told Forbes.com. “We have so far 370,000 new orders from Europe, the Middle East and the United States compared to only 40,000 orders of this particular model in December last year.” Baydan has renamed the model the “Bush shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush.”
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I’d like to buy the shoe and have it bronzed. What a symbol of waste and incompetence associated with the invasion and war with Iraq.
BTW, how is Iraqi reporter doing that threw it? Is he still alive? So much for democracy and due process.
“Mission acomplished”.
It looks like a pretty good shoe, too.
I wonder how long before we see “the shoe” on eBay. As I understand it, throwing one’s shoe or shoes is a worse insult than being flipped off. I’d think that would get very expensive.
“I wouldn’t wear them ugly-assed shoes.”
-OJ Simpson
If there’s anyone deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom it’s the shoe thrower guy. He was a very brave man to make a symbolic protest against one of the worst despots of the 21st century. Too bad the media edited out what he actually said to Mr. Bush.
Maggotpunk
Posted December 24, 2008 at 8:20 am | Permalink
If there’s anyone deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom it’s the shoe thrower guy.
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Sure, until it happens to Obama or worse, then the ’shoe’ will be on the other foot won’t it? :)
I’m designing a new shoe for the Iraqi market. It’s the Bom-a-Shoe. If you miss the president or the real genocidal despot, the shoe comes back to you. I’m making a model in a running shoe as well so, when it comes back to you, you can outrun the Secret Service and/or the Iraqi Secret Police.
mary, maggot, beber…………………sad, very sad. by the way mary, instead of buying the shoe and getting it bronzed, use the money to help your fellow man, or do you want us to continue to do that for you?
It could just as easily been a gun, or a suicide bomber. There really is nothing funny about throwing anything at our President, like him or not.
I was going to wear the shoes, wich hick. They’d be handy when Bush speaks at the Sharon Springs Rotary meeting.
beber…..but can you tie them by yourself? and if you threw them, I honestly hope you would be inflicted with severe pain immediately. I would hope that you would follow mary’s lead and do something to help your fellow man. Ha.
“It could just as easily been a gun, or a suicide bomber. There really is nothing funny about throwing anything at our President, like him or not.”
Easily? At a press conference with high security where everyone has security clearance and is searched beforehand?
maggot…..as usual you missed the point of JM’ post. But it is what we expect from you.
“maggot…..as usual you missed the point of JM’ post. But it is what we expect from you.”
Multi-niced Regular, it’s not like you’d understand anything if someone wrote it on a fish and slapped you with it.
O.K., hick, I’ll bite. What have you done lately to help your fellow man?
maggot. I assure you I am not Regular, however I do agree with most of what he posts. Based on your response, it is still obvious you do not understand JM’s post or mine.
O.k. Hick, I understand. What you have done for your fellow man is not a fucking thing. Thanks for the confirmation.
beber. From a volunteer standpoint I have not done a great deal lately, used to do a lot in the past. Financially, my wife and I donate significant dollars to mulitiple causes. And we will not be buying any shoes to throw. I simply hoped you would do the same. And?
beber. I really doubt if you understand. You are not that bright.
That’s 40 watts calling 100 dim.
beber, So, are you going to buy the shoes and spend the money to drive to Sharon Springs, or are you going to pay for someone’s groceries, or pay their utility bill, or adopt a family for Christmas? Or as I suspect, you will do nothing for anyone but yourself. Seems I answered your question, now will you tell me what you will do or have done?
I’m going to wear the shoes, hick. Shoes are handy no matter where you go. I think your filiment is gone. And BTW, why are you here dissing people when you could be out on the street “helping” others. I’m sure the five dollars or so you could earn would go a long ways.
lonely are we?
not at all lonely. I do admit though you are good at non-response and avoidance. Dissing is the least of which you all deserve.
Where’s the respect for our USA president by the Lib MSM. I’m getting tired of seeing articles about the shoe in the paper. Find someelse to write about, we are wasting ink and space.
They’re like roaches. You smash them, yet they still live.
Better thrown would have been a boot. An iron boot with a dollar sign on it.
george bush is not, nor has he ever been MY President.
Ask not for whom the shoe flies. It flies for me. It flies for all who have suffered the actions of the worst President ever.
Who says there isn’t any good news?
Dennis
“george
Posted December 24, 2008 at 10:18 am | Permalink
Where’s the respect for our USA president by the Lib MSM”
respect needs to be EARNED. Bush hasn’t done that.
“Sure, until it happens to Obama or worse, then the ’shoe’ will be on the other foot won’t it? :)”
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There should never be violent expressions of disapproval. The ’shoe thrower’ could have caused injury (bodily harm) and that should be illegal and deserving of punishment. He shouldn’t have been beaten, but violence really does beget violence!
bush earned disrespect! bush is despicable.
IF Obama is as poor a president as bush, he also will earn disrespect.
I’d thought maybe they were Wing shoes, the way they flew!
Bush has so denigrated the office, there’s no indignation left.
“It could just as easily been a gun, or a suicide bomber. There really is nothing funny about throwing anything at our President, like him or not.”
Aren’t you glad it wasn’t a shoe bomb? Or was it?
It’d been funnier if he’d of beaned him on the forehead and knocked him off his feet.
Some enterprising enterpeneur should put ‘the shoes’ on Ebay, bet it’d bring a small fortune.
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Phantom
Posted December 24, 2008 at 11:34 am | Permalink
It’d been funnier if he’d of beaned him on the forehead and knocked him off his feet.
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They call that assault and battery in the U.S.
In Iraq, I imagine harsher charges would have come forward.
Ah! beber has run and hid……………and then we get bj, yellow, phantom and bth. still very,very, sad
WAH! Too bad hick!
Yes, if he’d hit him, they’d probably of had a public hanging in Iraq.
Bushy two shoes.
Some of my fellow Americans are missing the point. It was not a violent expression of disapproval, at least no more so than a pie in the face.
While I suspect the guy wouldn’t have minded if he’d hit Bush in the face, that wasn’t the point, or the purpose. It was intended as a grave insult.
And the fact that Bush wasn’t hit didn’t change that a bit. Mission, truly, accomplished.
I was very respectful. Then I made a terrible mistake: I was so tired, I crossed my legs and showed him the sole of my shoe. Saddam got up and left. I thought I was toast. “Is he coming back?” I asked. “He’ll be back, but you must apologize for insulting an Arab with the supreme insult.” I decided not to apologize — maybe he was playing a psychological game with me. He came back and I just continued making my point. His eyes got bigger and then his mouth started moving into a smile.
http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/bill-richardson-and-obama-0109
Mary,
“I’d like to buy the shoe and have it bronzed.”
If it had only been bronzed before it was thrown…..
Everybody can throw shoes!
http://www.aksalser.com/game.htm
“instead of buying the shoe and getting it bronzed, use the money to help your fellow man, or do you want us to continue to do that for you?”
Judging from your posts above, I’d say I do a lot more than you do to help out the doen and out. Maybe you should start off your New Year by making a resolution not to assume things about people you don’t know.
BTW, “If you do something good for someone and then have to talk about it, it doesn’t count”…the nuns taught me that in the 4th grade.
That’s “down”…not doen!