Shoe protest goes global

[sabra]

Donated shoes labeled with names of Iraqis who died during the war in Iraq are displayed during a protest in front of the White House in Washington December 17, 2008.
REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES)


Code Pink members Fred Bialy, left, and Toby Blome, right, both of El Cerrito, Calif., hang shoes outside a Marine Corps recruiting station during a protest in Berkeley, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. In solidarity with an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad press conference Sunday, the anti-war activists held up shoes during an event billed as a Farewell Kiss Shoe-In.
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)


Mustafa Kir, head of a Turkish civil servant union, displays a pair of shoes he intends to send to Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi during a rally outside Iraqi embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008, to praise Zeidi's protest against President George W. Bush. Zeidi threw his shoes at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday, while yelling in Arabic: ' This is a farewell kiss, you dog, this is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.'
(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)


A poster depicting U.S. President George W. Bush is seen under a pair of shoes during a protest at a university in Beirut December 17, 2008 in solidarity with Iraqi TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at Bush on Sunday.
REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON)


Pakistani protesters hold photographs of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who hurled shoes at U. S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Iraq, at a rally for his release outside the United States Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008.
(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)


Pakistani students draw on a road during their rally for supporting the Iraqi journalist, who hurled shoes on U. S. President George Bush during a press conference in Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in Karachi, Pakistan.
(AP Photo/Shakil Adil)


Iraqis hold up a print depicting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a goal keeper trying to catch flying shoes and a print showing Iraqi journalist al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at President Bush during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Hundreds demonstrated demanding the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi who was arrested after throwing his shoes at the US President George W. Bush during a press conference Sunday.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

[bdamomma]

1. His legacy, Worlds most hated man.

he deserves the title. bastard

[The2ndWheel]

2. Like everything else that gets mass produced

It becomes cheap. Whatever the shoe throw had to it, whatever that certain something was, is then deluded and worn down, and is then just...oh, great, another shoe.

[ogneopasno]

8. Heh. I totally agree.

[ipfilter]

11. Like everything else...

"Buffett once told me there are three 'I's in every cycle. The 'innovator,' that's the first 'I.' After the innovator comes the 'imitator.' And after the imitator in the cycle comes the idiot."

-Theodore Forstmann, quoting Warren Buffett

[stillcool]

12. Yeah..all that symbolism sucks..

[man4allcats]

3. K&R!

:kick:

[malaise]

4. I love it

The Shoe movement.

[RoadRage]

5. IDEA: Send an old pair of shoes to ATTN: G.W. Bush

Seriously.. if everyone on this board went up to their closet and found an old beat up pair of shoes that they've been meaning to donate or throw out.. and mailed them to the white house.. imagine what kind of statement that would make.

Thousands of Pairs of Shoes showing up right as George is trying to pack up the moving truck....

Perhaps then he'd get the message, eh?

[phusion]

6. He'd probably stack them up

in the Oval Office for President Obama to deal with.

[retread]

7. Wear them for a walk where the dogs relieve themselves then send them. n/t

[ogneopasno]

9. Get the message? Seriously? If he hasn't gotten it by now, he never will.

Donate 'em instead.

[uppityperson]

10. k&r

[barbtries]

13. there's a new flickr group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/a_goodbye_kiss_you_dog/

[4 t 4]

14. No 1. I am so sorry he didn't connect No 2. I would

have thrown much more that shoes given a chance.

[barbtries]

15. yeah

i wish it would have connected.