In the part of the world that George W. Bush described as suffering a "deep deficit in freedom" it is ironic that an Iraqi reporter was able to liberate a shoe, launched in the direction of the outgoing President but missed by some distance.
The fact that President Bush displayed such agility of reflexes at his age was overshadowed by the significance of the insult. I won't even contemplate discussing this trivial news except to question why security was so lax in the first place.
With a black American coming into the White House, an obvious target of hate groups, one wonders if Tom Clancy's fictional end to Jack Ryan's successor, assassinated by the Klu Klux Klan, will become a reality. In a troubled world, it can only get worse... and that is scary indeed.
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