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Taking it all in stride

Monday, 15 December 2008 10:12

Once in a while you have to learn a lesson from others that you just can’t learn anywhere else. This weekend was one of those times. This happened when President Bush was on a trip to Iraq to sign the latest security agreement. The circumstances of the trip were to be one of the final presidential acts that he could show his face around and try to end his term on a high note with a deal in pocket and pictures to prove it.

Then the shoe thing happens. Some idiot threw both his shoes at President Bush at the news conference, and couldn’t land either one. Now I admire the fact he wanted to speak out, I admire the fact that he was thinking about the whole shoe thing, given the fact that Fox made such a big deal of it when Iraqis were hitting pictures of Saddam with their shoes.

But his aim was crappy and he looked like he hadn’t even practiced. Why did he go for the head, a low percentage shot to start with? The chest would have been a much higher percentage alternative. For these reasons I give him a four out of ten for poor planning, and poor follow through.

On the other hand, I give Bush a ten out of ten for his response. He ducked each shot like a pro. Perhaps the secret service practices things like that with the President. I can see the shoe throwing

Range in the basement of the white house now. The biggest reason for my score though was his comment afterward.
“All I can report is that it was a size ten”

Why couldn’t he have that kind of wit and clarity of thought when it mattered, when he has to make an important statement? What is it about the quip that makes me laugh? I don’t know. Perhaps it was that he got so many words wrong when it could have made a difference and now that it doesn’t, he’s flawless.
Perhaps we should all spend some time in the White House basement shoe throwing range. Maybe then we would be able fire off witty comments, and take things like loses to our trading accounts in stride.

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