I can not believe how the media is making a huge celebration over a foreigner throwing a shoe at the President of the United States. Now there is a popular game out making fun of our President having a shoe thrown at him. This is a deplorable as when the courts approved as "free speech" the burning of the American Flag! What is happening to America? I do not believe for one moment President Bush was that bad of a President. Look at what he has had to deal with while in office. If this would have happened during WWII, or after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the American citizens would have ordered this man to his death, one way or another. The American mass media today is our worst enemy. They trend on America worse than the terrorist that are trying to take out the American people. One short message to the American people,,,WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If the National Media would have printed and broadcast this same negative news, created to destroy America, after Pearl Harbor as they are now, the American people who had patriotism at that time would have burned down the offices of every newspaper and media headquarters in the US. Face it people, we need to take control of America. Take it away from the media, away from all corrupt politicians, and away from every foreign source that is out to destroy life as we all know America was built on,,,FREEDOM. We are headed down a path led by politicians, and evil media sources that may not be reversable if we let it go too long. THINK ABOUT IT!
Robert - I completely agree with you about the media. Too much power and their own agenda.
The reporter with the shoes has been disrespectful of a visiting head of State who happens to be the President of MY country. He has violated the rules of hospitality in any culture or religion. In this country he would have committed the serious crime of aggravated assault - a felony in our laws. He needs to go to jail according to the rules of Iraqi law - whatever they may be. This is a serious matter.
As for our current situation, we, as a nation, seem to forget that with freedom comes responsibility. Our people seem to have missed the second half of that equation.
Thanks for your patriotism and your willingness to take a stand for your beliefs. It is going to get worse before it gets better. Yours is a voice we will need to keep hearing.