the Iraqi press has made atleast one notable contribution to the world politics; throwing shoes at the leaders. President Bush was the first one, and the tradition has continued. someone tried to throw a shoe at Manmohan Singh. whether the shoe is black or brown, it seems like Shoe throwing is the new black.
in the shoe throw incident in Baghdad, the Iraqi journalist did something that the world leaders had been wanting for days: rising up the demand.
the demand for the kind of shoes he threw at President Bush has already risen to high proportions. the company that claims to make them had never sold more than 15,000 of that brand in any year. now they have received a staggering 370,000 shoe orders.
so i guess people should start throwing shoes at the hated leaders. be warned though, the law of diminishing marginal returns applies here too. so as the shoe throws rise, there will be less and less marginal demand increases.
its worth a try, though.
walking in their shoes
so we have seen it on TV and heard it on the radio and seen it written in the press, when the President of the United States had to go through the most embarrassing situation. an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush. the journalist has been charged with insulting the Iraqi state.
I think that is not fair. Iraq has gone through so much. maybe the journalist wanted the President Bush to experience what the ordinary Iraqis have been experiencing. He lent him his shoes so the President could walk in his shoes to see what a mess the American bombing has made of Iraq.
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