Shoe threw that?

The news on this side of the pond has been all about Bush being attacked in Iraq by a shoe wielding maniac. The clip has been endlessly played on the news channels, it is all over the web and inches of newspaper columns will be filled with the telling and analysis of the story. But what struck me was the complete lack of Secret Service response to the incident.

I don’t know if you have seen the footage, but when the 1st shoe is thrown there is no agent throwing himself in the way. By the time the 2nd shoe is thrown you would expect Bush to be surrounded by his body guards so that nothing could hit him. Instead the Commander in Chief has to duck from the 2nd shoe (which apparently were a size 10 for the stat fans), and then, and only then do the Secret Service come bursting through the door behind the President. The current reports are claiming that security wrestled the attacked to the ground, but the TV footage I have seen seems to indicate that it was in fact another journalist.

I can’t help but feel that Clint Eastwood would never have allowed a shoe to be thrown at the President, and who know in a few year maybe he could make a movie about if all, In the line of shoes anyone?