Clearly this was an insult. Where were the secret services? I think they all should be fired. Clearly, they did not protect the President. I am apalled that this idot would throw a shoe at our President. If I would have been there, it would have been HELL to pay.
I mean no one disrespect our President.

That he was able to get BOTH shoes off and thrown is an embarrassment to the secret service.

That guy should never have been able to throw the second dhow. Journalists stand up to ask q's, I can understand one shoe getting off...but the secret service didn't even MOVE until the second shoe had already been thrown. DISGRACEFUL.

The secret service is a team that NEVER gets a second chance, and no, they don't get a break. I expect them to be 100% perfect, ALL THE TIME, for Bush, for Obama, for Clinton, for their wives and children, for whoever they are assigned to protect.

I can't believe none of of the Secret Service agents was willing to take a shoe for President Bush.

Een though I do not like President Bush it was not good that the secret service did not act immediately. It's a disgrace. I don't care if you like him or not, what if he had gotten hurt or God forbid killed?
I agree with MJ...I expect them to be 100% perfect....especially in these times.

Normally I would say that the office deserves respect no matter who is President.

However, after the last 8 years of Bush and his reckless incompotence, I can see why anyone would be tempted to throw something at him.

He is the worst President of my lifetime and I was alive during Reagan so that's saying a LOT.

The sooner Bush goes - the better. Good riddance!

Interesting... Bin Laden used a terrorist
disguised as a reporter to get close enough to and kill (his camera had a bomb in it) his main rival in Afgan....
This could have easily been MUCH worse....

ch...I guess you were born after Dhimmi Carter then. It amazed me how liberals lie to themselves because they hate Republicans. Everyone did better under Regan. Even you ch.

So CH.....if I don't like Obama's politics and disagree with something he does, you wouldn't mind if I were to throw my shoes at him?

You obviously don't THINK any better than you can spell.

The stupidity of defending the "Shoe" attack on President Bush explains why this country is in trouble. He is the President of our country, and anyone who shows disrespect to him shows disrespect to all of us. Carter was the worst president ever, but I would have been furious at anyone who had done the same to him.

The blind hatred of our current President and disrespect shown to him from citizens of his own country has only encouraged others to show disrespect to him also.

It's so ironic that those who scream tolerance and compassion the loudest are those who show such delight when our President, or anyone who doesn't share their philosophy for that matter, is attacked verbally or physically.

I guess the secret service must have fallen in the "I don't like him, so do whatever" camp.

This really was an insult to the United States as a whole.

While the Secret Service cannot predict every action an indiviudal may make in a closed room, they certainly should have reacted more quickly to the second shoe and stood in front of the President.

The reaction time seemed too slow. The reporter in front of the shoe thrower reacted more quickly than any security personnel.

I think the SS had instructions to make the scene look "normal" with no obvious presence.

Bush has done that sort of thing before--remember him going back to a security line and dragging through somebody that had been stopped.

I think the SS was doing what they were told to do.

That "journalist" did what a lot of people wish they could (ch). He should have been shot. That was an assault on our President.

LOL! This is absolutely hilarious! But yes sort of scary that the Secret Service didn't even notice this guy taking his shoes off.
Did you see Bush laughing? Even HE thought it was hilarious.

So will Democrats be okay with it if some crazy Republican pops Obama in the jaw with a thrown boot because he disagrees with him?

Somehow I expect the answer will be that the shoe thrower should be gunned down by the Secret Service.

The Secret Service was "slow to react" on 9/11 also.

Even though the S.S. was slow to react, Bush was certainly fast. Unusually so, could have been all the supposed hatred he has been sensing of late. Seriously, this incident is very unfortunate for us all. Maybe he deserved some of the bad press, maybe not.

When George Bush, Sr. came to my hometown to hand them a check for millions of dollars, local Democrats organized to jeer and heckle him attempting to drown-out his speech.

If I were him, I would have walked off the stage and taken the check with me.

You RESPECT the OFFICE regardless of his politics. But Liberals only seem to believe freedoms apply to themselves and those who they agree with.

Hey, they are not hired to protect his dignity. They probably did learn a lesson from this experience and will make changes to their procedures, though.

Hmm, judging from the comments here and on other sites, I suppose the country is still very much divided. That's probably the most unfortunate as far as I can tell. Haven't we all heard of divided we fall....