Most delusional statement of the year award
By now everyone has seen the video of an Egyptian journalist throwing both his shoes at president Bush, while the Secret Service apparently was listening to the Dead Kennedys on their iPods. But Bush only described the moment as “bizarre” and averred that it probably wasn’t representative of how Iraqis feel generally:
“I don’t think you can take one guy throwing shoes and say this represents a broad movement in Iraq. You can try to do that if you want to. I don’t think it would be accurate. …”
Oh for Pete’s sake, mister president… there are a lot of people in America who would like to lob a shoe at you, let alone in Iraq. You just don’t get it, do you? It would be a good idea for you to just stay away from that part of the world from now on, OK? Next time it might be something a lot worse than a shoe.
But maybe I missed something even more delusional – please make your nominations in the comments!
Some guy on the news said that it’s standard for an ex-President to receive 10 years of Secret Service protection after he leaves office.
He then added that Mr. Bush might receive more than ten years’ worth.
Duh.
Sorry, but I think this may be the most delusional comment of the year.
“But I don’t care whether you tape me privately or publicly, I can tell you that whatever I say is always lawful and the things I’m interested in are always lawful and if there are any things out there like that, what you’ll hear is a governor who tirelessly and endlessly figures out ways to help average, ordinary working people,” Blagojevich said.
Or maybe it is this one:
“I don’t believe there’s any cloud that hangs over me, I think there’s nothing but sunshine hanging over me,” Blagojevich said.
Sorry, it was too easy to mention this!!
Shoe Hurling Iraqi Terrorism?
I’m sure the Pentagon has an acronym for it
Of course this guy’s not representative of the wider population. But I assume the people who wanted to hurl more dangerous items at the not-quite-soon-enough-to-be-ex-President weren’t allowed into the news conference.
Did anyone else find it damn impressive that Bush was able to dodge them both so well? That guy really threw those shoes hard!
Yeah, webs, he really did throw them hard and fast. I was actually impressed with that. I also wondered what it would have been like if one of them had hit their mark; how bad it would have hurt.
I also like Euonia’s acronym suggestion. I suppose if it were a religious person throwing the shoe, it would have been Holy Shoe Hurling Iraqi Terrorism.
Anyone want to bet against W showing up on a Darwin list sometime before he’s pushing daisies? No takers? Didn’t think so.
@Still Me,
It’s spelled Eunoia, the O comes after the N. It means ‘normal mental health’. Just FYI
BTW, it’s also the shortest word with all the vowels in it.