{"id":1152,"date":"2008-12-14T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2008-12-14T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T22:18:47","slug":"george-w-bush-lame-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush: Lame. Duck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On what George Bush must think is his victory lap, the president surprised the country he destroyed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iTki_d652tvHLYQvaRlelGq64GoQD952MG800\" target=\"_blank\">one last visit<\/a> before he slips off into irrelevancy. However, during a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, one of the reporters slipped off his shoes and hurled them at Bush.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Humor\/lame-duck.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After the incident, Bush dismissed it saying that it was merely <em>&#8220;one way of getting attention.&#8221;<\/em> But in the Middle East, the symbolism of shoes is much deeper than that. Even crossing your legs in a manner that shows the sole of your shoe to someone is considered a supreme insult.<\/p>\n<p>Take this, Bushie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i60.photobucket.com\/albums\/h16\/smartaleq\/barack-obama-shoes.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On what George Bush must think is his victory lap, the president surprised the country he destroyed with one last visit before he slips off into irrelevancy. However, during a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, one of the reporters slipped off his shoes and hurled them at Bush. After the incident, Bush dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,15],"tags":[167,1136],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-graphix","category-humor","tag-george-w-bush","tag-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-iA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":229,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=229","url_meta":{"origin":1152,"position":0},"title":"The Hypocritical Patriotism Of George W. 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