To the bitter end: Bush-haters throw shoes at effigy in D.C.
posted at 9:02 pm on January 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
One last ejaculation of dissent before everyone falls into line tomorrow morning. Consider it a happy omen for Obama finding common ground with Iran; after all, they do this over there, too.
I’m glad the little kid is participating enthusiastically. Somehow, it wouldn’t feel right without him.
For a nice, understated farewell to Dubya, see Althouse. Click the image to watch.
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i’ll be so glad when this is over
toenail on January 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM
You think this is the last ejaculation? 100 bucks says there will be an assassination attempt on at least one member of the Bush administration within a year.
Speedwagon82 on January 19, 2009 at 9:06 PM
You`re assuming their anger is finite.
ThePrez on January 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM
It’s now clear . . . they are all in the last stage of syphilis.
rplat on January 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I hate to say this…I don’t think it ends tomorrow at all. I think for most of these deranged haters, it’s a permanent life-long illness…they’ll be doing the same thing 25 years from now…BSD is now a permanent part of their character.
AUINSC on January 19, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Get a life.
chunderroad on January 19, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Yeah, but it’s just not the same. He’s not wearing a green headband and carrying a “toy” AK-47. He’s not even shouting “Death to America!” in his sweet child’s voice.
aero on January 19, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Now, for the first time, I wish I was in DC holding a big-ass sign saying “THANK YOU MR. BUSH, I’LL MISS YOU!”
HawaiiLwyr on January 19, 2009 at 9:12 PM
You may not make it out alive.
katy on January 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Dammit…nobody told me about this. I’d love to chuck a shoe or two.
I wish you were too…there’s more than enough shoes to go around.
LevStrauss on January 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Just effin pathetic. Really. It is a sad state of affairs, and I’ll bet most of these idiots have a college degree..which shows you how worthless a degree is these days in terms of inculcating civility.
The key to a successful political career, it seems, is to be an empty suit who sounds great. Whattya know, just like a college degree — a diploma with no substance.
Richard Romano on January 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
No kidding!
The inmates have truly taken over the asylum that used to be known as our nation’s capital.
Jenfidel on January 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Ok, let’s get our shoes ready for Obama since it seems now throwing shoes at our current leader is in vogue. Maybe replace skeets with those new commemorative plates?
Kokonut on January 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM
It only amplifies the grace and dignity of GWB.
ThePrez on January 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
This act is these people’s main contribution to society – throwing shoes at a balloon. For doing nothing, they will soon be getting government checks on the backs of people who actually produce goods and services of value.
whitetop on January 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
These people should be glad they live in a country where you don’t have to ask for asylum if you throw shoes! Or do they…can you imagine what would happen if they threw shoes at an effigy of the O? Deportation would be kind.
Christian Conservative on January 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
If someone set up something like that to mock Barack Obama those same people would be screaming “hate crime” and demand that the Justice Dept go after someone.
NeoKong on January 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
This will be a Liberals NeverEnding Story,
right at this moment,till the end of time!
Just wait till some idiot professor comes up
with Bush history 101,and in that Liberal mind
set,teach all the horrors of revisionist history
that never happened,akin to making Nixon look like
an angel in comparison,ugh!
———————
And,whats with the ‘shoe throwing’!
Or,do the leftys have more in common with the
ME mindset!!!!!!
canopfor on January 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I used to think that the insanity they displayed to Reagan was the high water mark to crazy. Nope.
Be prepared to wait a very, very, very long time.
Correct. And if their hatred of Bush starts to dissipate, they’ll simply transfer the object of their insanity to some other person. Such as Sarah Palin.
wise_man on January 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I’m glad the little kid is participating enthusiastically. Somehow, it wouldn’t feel right without him.
That kid was the intellectual leader of the group.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Maybe these are the bitter-clingers O was talking about.
ThePrez on January 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Shameful.
Our own people acting like camel dung. I give your boy less than a year, 9 months, before he sours your taste in his sacramental wine and it turns to piss. Drink up now.
Ever since Bush came into office, you leftist liberals damaged computer keyboards removing the W’s, to gushing with a fantasy Assassination. You did the same with his father and Ronaldus Maximus.
Go ahead and party, the hangover will be sweet and long.
Kini on January 19, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Those who are saying “it’s not over” are so right.
As for the people in this video… What a bunch of pathetic morons. I also have to wonder if Muslims around the world appreciate their beliefs being mocked like this, for political gain. I guarantee 99% of these idiots don’t realize that throwing the shoe was a uniquely “Muslim” thing to do, based on their traditions and beliefs. I’m certain they all just think the guy grabbed the closest thing to him to throw.
RightWinged on January 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Whatever do you mean? Bush-hatred is perfectly normal. Not like that crazy Obama-hatred, which is clearly deranged.
JohnJ on January 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Sadly, the election and confirmation of Obarfy is going to mean the demise of another fabled group similar to the shoe-throwers.
Yes, I’m talking about the giant paper-mache head manufacturers, those brave souls who weathered Rovian Stormtroopers™ and Cheney Hurricanes to provide the giant heads which were such an integral part of the leftist anti-everything marches.
I’m taking up a collection for them. Won’t you please help? Do it for the 25-55 year old children who comprise this soon to be unemployed demographic.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Ditto that. However, it’s too cold to wear slippers.
Kini on January 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
That’s not George Bush, that’s Bill Clinton.
bloggless on January 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Ah, a demonstration of the magnanimous, post-partisan, left…
Unity!, Tolerance!, Diversity!, Post-partisan!…
O!
God help us all…
RocketmanBob on January 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Class shows, and the lack of class shows even more clearly.
Labeling this the “final ejaculation” of BDS is only wrong in saying “final”. Pelosi and Congress are not ready to let go yet, so further ejaculations are likely. It certainly is an ejaculation by very immature people into the weeds, purposeless, egocentric to the point of idiocy and self-induced in an illegitimate fantasy.
Had GWB showed up, punctured the balloon and looked them in eye, I doubt any of these brave souls would have done anything. But it’s play-pen time, the children do screw off and act out.
Hope that kid learned something watching adults fall to his level.
Harry Schell on January 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Where is an out-of-control big-rig when you need one?
D2Boston on January 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Here’s wishing a C-5 carrying a max load (291,000 lbs) of elephant excrement would suddenly jettison its cargo on these pathetic stinkbags.
whitetop on January 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
And meanwhile in our “ally” Iraq.
Iraqi prison guards throw party for shoe-thrower
MB4 on January 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
How about we throw claymore mines at the asshats that disrespect #43? A huge pox on them and their families for acting like third world Che thugs. Rosie and OOHPPPPPPPRRRRA are gonna look real cute livin’ in da hood after the “pristine washed one” gets through re-distibuting their wealth to all the homies in the land of what used to be plenty. Sorta looking forward to the meltdown of the mugwai’s myself!
GlocknRoll on January 19, 2009 at 9:33 PM
For those who think this ends tomorrow, remember how they reacted when President Reagan died.
Kensington on January 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I like it!
I was present for Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural. It was an experience of a lifetime and I’m happy that I was there for it.
The filthy Chicago bastard’s inaugural has become such a circus that it isn’t really about the change of power. The man isn’t even really black in the sense that he comes from the ranks of the real African-American experience. Barak Obama is as much of an African-American as Teresa Heinz Kerry. Yet, the left and much of the right is using the event to pat themselves on the back and pretend that there is no more racism.
highhopes on January 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Did anyone else read this column by Bob Parks? http://www.black-and-right.com/2009/01/19/a-tale-of-three-inaugurations/
onlineanalyst on January 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
in some countries that ‘hate us’, some dont. And in some countries that are our ally, there are some that don’t like us.
… moron.
Now be a good little one trick pony and spam the page with Mark Twain quotes like a good little court jester that you are.
wise_man on January 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Its time to play the liberal game!
Outlaw,and classify shoe throwing as a deadly weapon!
Flip-flops,sandals,6″inch spikes,ass-jackers,slippers,
maybe even socks!
Someone’s gonna lose an eye,
or some idiot,is gonna stuff
a hand grenade in a boot,
and Ka-Blewy!!
canopfor on January 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I can only surmise that you are still off your meds. So sad.
MB4 on January 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Full of Liquid Nitrogen
johnnyU on January 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM
damaged computer key-boards…
Kini on Jan 19,2009 at 9:25PM.
Kini: Aloha! I remember that quite well,and the media
thought it was funny too!!!!:)
canopfor on January 19, 2009 at 9:41 PM
So if this is the new tradition to usher out the President, what will be thrown at an Obama effigy on 1/19/13? Arugula? Waffles?
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Oh crap,Kini,don’t forget the pillaging of the
White House and Airforce 1,anything that wasn’t
nailed down as well!
canopfor on January 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Let’s all just hope that Pepsi does not change back to glass bottles and that the throwers don’t mistake the false effigy for the real One.
MB4 on January 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Thank you, that made me laugh! I needed a laugh during the Obama slobber-fest.
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM
That’s a cultural thing. Unless Obama ushers in a Islamic theocracy (jury is still out), the left will simply silence the opposition through measures like the “Fairness Doctrine.” By 2013, the evil empire will have quashed all dissent and the residents of DC will be forced out on the streets to hail the unanimous re-election of President-for-life Obama.
highhopes on January 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Well, THAT’s mature. I’m shore glad that yer around to show us here rednecks how we will be treated.
Pop quiz, hotshot: I wear an Israeli Air Force hoodie on a pretty regular basis. Planning on throwing something at me there???
mjk on January 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Let’s also remember that an American President has not really arrived until burned in effigy in various rat holes around the word (including some of the places where Obama’s kin reside). The litmus test for Obama’s leadership will come if and when he is such an appeaser that those effigies do not follow.
Put another way, if an American President is popular in Yemen, then he/she is a traitor to this nation.
highhopes on January 19, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I’m bored with the BDS. It’s immature and childish.
We are all allowed to believe whatever the h*ll we want to believe. That’s the way it goes.
Just because I see a set of circumstances in a different way than someone else does not make me stupid or ill-educated.
It’s too damn bad that there are people who think the opposite.
mjk on January 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Aloha canopfor,
The lack of professionalism and decent standards is beyond consideration. If conservatives don’t grow some bollocks, then we are in for a world of hurt, for a very long time.
Kini on January 19, 2009 at 9:59 PM
I guess none of those people have a job, just killing time until the first O’welfare check arrives….
Hog Wild on January 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Unfortunately, this isn’t out of the realm of possibilities. I keep on thinking that by 2013, we’ll all be showing off the purple ink on our fingers on “election day”.
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 10:04 PM
When our country’s enemies stop a hissin’, we shall know our President is a slippin’.
MB4 on January 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM
So if this is the new tradition to usher out the President, what will be thrown at an Obama effigy on 1/19/13? Arugula? Waffles?
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM
If the DFL hasn’t yet made it possible for Obarfa to run again, probably nothing. We’ll say good riddance and buh-bye.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Such shameless people. Their parents should be awwwwwwwwfully proud of their crap.
nagee76 on January 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
heh… pithy
+1
Hog Wild on January 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
If our country’s enemies grin, we shall know our President is a has been.
Cheshire Cat on January 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM
He he, you said the “ejac” word.
abobo on January 19, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Shoes? Throwing shoes? That’s all they can come up with, and they had to steal that from the 8th century cave dwellers. Yeah, I’m impressed.
R D on January 19, 2009 at 10:16 PM
My new favorite phrase is “Dissent is Patriotic”. The Libs’ heads may eventually explode if we all use it regularly.
gmoonster on January 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM
I find it very difficult not to hate these people. And I think they are only going to get worse. I see more and more Obama stickers on cars, more than before the election and brand new looking ones. Some are obviously recent, as they say things like Yes we did! and crap like that. They are very in your face. And he was going to UNITE us…His supporters have no desire for unity, only complete domination. Yes, very difficult not to hate them.
pannw on January 19, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Kind of lacking the creativity department no? Behold the modern ‘courageous, lone, rebel’ speaking ‘truth to power’…just like everybody else. It’ kind of the political equivalent of body piercing…
AUINSC on January 19, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I’m not even trying to fight that feeling, myself.
AUINSC on January 19, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Let the healing begin.
These are the same a$$holes who want everyone to get along now?
I cannot hope the Messiah does well.
Does anyone else feel like tomorrow is either the rapture or the end of days?
drjohn on January 19, 2009 at 10:27 PM
In what other inaugeration festivities was there a representation of the outgoing President that people could throw stuff at. Has society slipped this much in liberaland. I guess this is just the first step in our de-evolution to mud houses and starving on “organic” (1. noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
2. characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms: organic remains found in rocks.) foods
cobrakai99 on January 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I don’t love or loath Bush. I Sat down with the Head of the department of history today to discuss some issues with graduation, and had to listen to him about Bush. Nice guy, but does he really have to interject politics into a discussion about classes?
This is what he said with a smug grin on his face and brow furrowed in deep thought about presidents, “Bush will be rated a failure.”. Me, “Well, don’t you normally give 20 years or so to really pass judgment after seeing all the documents and materials?”. Him, “All my predictions have been right on the nose during his terms, so not really.”. Me, “Most people thought Truman to be an utter failure, but now history looks at him in a greater light.”. That is when the conversation ended-historical discourse and thought is dead.
theboss on January 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I have a feeling that a majority of their parents would be proud of them….which is the main problem to begin with.
BigWyo on January 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Classy as always. And this isn’t “the last” we’ll see of BDS, not by a longshot.
Midas on January 19, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Thanks for that reminder gmoonster.
I’m going to put a big inflated Obama balloon in my front yard, complete with giant Dumbo ears, and throw rocks at it.
Just bein’ patriotic.
(sometimes there aren’t enough rocks … F.Gump)
fogw on January 19, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Tomorrow’s $150M love fest will be tough to get through but after it’s over, I am hoping against hope that the strong Repubs in Senate and Congress start taking the gloves off and we can get back to adult politics.
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 10:37 PM
It reminds me of the “wadda we want, ____ when do we want it, now” chant that was/is worn out at every protest since the 60′s.
Me too. I’ll just try not to make my feelings too public.
R D on January 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Oh come on drjohn. You must be too young or too old to remember Jimmy Carter. We survived him, we’ll survive this too.
R D on January 19, 2009 at 10:45 PM
This sooo pisses me off. They want us to give Obama a chance, yet they never gave Bush a chance from day one. And now they can’t even acknowledge what he has done for the country or even show him respect.
Ugh!
http://briansutton.com/photoblog/subsidizing-a-culture-of-irresponsibility/
funsutton on January 19, 2009 at 11:00 PM
My company is setting up TV viewing areas in the cafeteria so that employees can view the inauguration festivities, and all managers were notified that anyone so inclined must be given time away from their station, cubicle, ETC., to attend. I wouldn’t mind so much except for the fact that when I queried some of the old-timers, they do not remember this being offered for the inaugurations of Bush 43, Clinton, or Bush 41…
I’ll report back in the event that any shoes are thrown at the TV, but I tend to doubt it…
CaptFlood on January 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Oh those with BDS:
Hitchens on why Bush really was the best choice over Gore and Kerry!
Now we know why Andrew Sullivan did not give Hitch any tongue!
Mr. Joe on January 19, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Hitchens on why Bush really was the best choice over Gore and Kerry!
Mr. Joe on January 19, 2009 at 11:35 PM
LOL! How long before somebody starts cashing in on shoes to throw at Obama?
desertdweller on January 19, 2009 at 11:52 PM
BTW and for the record, I have just grown to absolutely hate Liberals. They are so patently unfair and imagine the world is so unfair to them. To all those who made this mans life a living hell in his tenure as our president, a slow death by a deadly, deadly (and painful) disease.
hawkdriver on January 20, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Where do you live? I got a lot of rocks for BHO’s ears!
StatenItaly08 on January 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM
It’s too late.
unclesmrgol on January 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Dude, it will never, ever end. Nixon Derangement Syndrome is still going on.
Jim62sch on January 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM
How about a shoe with big ears that we can throw at a dummy with big ears.
TimothyJ on January 20, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I wonder if we will survive 4 years of liberals and obama
President Bush did his best to
defend this nation
protect its people
Kill and disrupt the mass murdering islamo nazis
Democrats now want to
Throw Bush in Jail
Kill cheney
Arrest every cia officer doing their jobs
put them all in guantanimo
And let the Islamic nazis and drug dealing illegal mexicans into the USA to become the
democrats new model of the new america…
My god these people are really going to destroy our country
I am getting ready
and i am filled with sorrow over this prospect.
I hate to say this but 6 months ago
I predected EXACTLY this..
Dems would win (because of republican theft gone rampant)
Dems would arrest Bush and put him in jail
Pelozi would be leading the charge
And then the best part.
The dems in their so called tolerance
will invite both
Abina wack job and osama bin laden to be their new
model citizens in the usa
Courtesty of
Liberals
Pelozi
Obama the gag messiah
and the rest of the vile vermin that now infests washington dc..
The republicans have only themselves to blame
for this fiasco.. for they didnt uphold the laws either.
No they are all to blame and the time is comming for a pitchfork reconing
jcila on January 20, 2009 at 12:22 AM
I wouldn’t throw shoes at his effigy, but he’s far and away the worst President I voted for. If the GOP wants to keep losing like it did in 2006 and 2008 they’ll continue pretending he was a Republican.
The man pushed to have $150,000,000,000 redistributed to lower and middle income taxpayers in 2008 via direct stimulus checks, used strong arm tactics to get the TARP and UAW bailouts passed (against overwhelming opposition from the people), gave Hank Paulson free reign to nationalize half our freaking banking industry… he handed a socialist the reigns to a country that’s already well on it’s way to being socialist. Good riddance to him.
popularpeoplesfront on January 20, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Folks, if the liberals had heir way, they would blame Bush for things that happen, 300 years into the future… that is, if this country lasts that long, after president Boogety-Oogety doesn’t destroy us completely!
ToddonCapeCod on January 20, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Obama’s a shoo-in, too.
And a composite heel.
With a flapping tongue.
And a broken sole.
profitsbeard on January 20, 2009 at 12:41 AM
They’re already burning Obama’s portrait abroad. Can shoe-throwing be far behind?
This “Hey, time to heal, come together, and move on…except for the Bush-bashing” stuff is something they can stick straight up their rectal cavities, as far as I’m concerned.
capitalist piglet on January 20, 2009 at 12:51 AM
It’s only the beginning. Liberals are like children – they want to be taken care of, and they throw tantrums. It’s just what they do.
capitalist piglet on January 20, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Heh. The day is coming apace when the poor bastards will wake up and find out Bush wasn’t so damn bad after all.
I think that day will be Wednesday.
NTXLass on January 20, 2009 at 1:51 AM
This lot? You’re kidding, right? Once they get their first Obama-bucks wealth distribution checks in the mail (paid for by you and me, of course), they’ll hate Bush even more.
AUINSC on January 20, 2009 at 1:57 AM
This is from the news story:
A nurse. Nice. If you live in Atlanta be sure not to hire this nut. Clearly, she can’t control her emotions. If she finds out you’re a Republican she may pull the plug on you.
juliesa on January 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM
It’s the new spirit of national unity I’ve heard about. Obama sure is an inspiration.
juliesa on January 20, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Nobody has shot Bush(out of any degree of sanity), despite the “BDS” you talk about. Reagan still has that high water mark. The most we get from this Bush is shoe-dodging.
What’s wrong with a bit of catharsis if it means they are less motivated to attract the Secret Service? She releases some steam, she goes on calmly and she lessens herself as a threat against Bush.
She may already be in a position that makes your suggestion nigh-impossible.
sethstorm on January 20, 2009 at 3:42 AM
Hate Perot all you want but it’s 2009, not 1996.
sethstorm on January 20, 2009 at 3:48 AM
Epic phrase-turnery.
hillbillyjim on January 20, 2009 at 4:14 AM
feel the unity.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 6:06 AM
how many of those people have jobs, ya think?
i’m sure Obama will do things I don’t like, but I won’t be able to throw shoes at his likeness, because I have to, you know, work and all.
flyawaybird on January 20, 2009 at 6:40 AM
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