I asked him if he was going to the inauguration, and he said no fuckin' way. He said the whole city will be full of miscellaneous crazies, and he hinted that there might be problems.
"If terrorists had any power, wouldn't they have acted against Bush?" I asked.
"Bush Sr. is the most powerful man in the world," he replied. "He made some serious connections while he was in the CIA. Nobody's gonna touch his son."
"What about the Iraqi shoe-thrower?" I asked.
He laughed. "Bush Jr. set that up himself. C'mon, think about it: two foreign objects come flying at him, and he doesn't run? The Secret Service doesn't shoot the thrower, doesn't surround Bush and get him out the back door stat? No, and there's exactly one reason why not."
He paused for emphasis here.
"Because everybody knew in advance that they were just shoes."
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That actually sounds reasonable enough to be true.
Doesn't it? I mean, haven't we been taught that shoes can also be bombs? Why did the president -- and the Secret Service, apparently -- react like they knew these were just shoes?
And what's the motivation? Why would he want to prove that people don't like him, and that there's still turmoil in Iraq? Wouldn't he sooner stage a welcoming parade?
He also told me Hillary, Madeleine Albright, and Donna Shalala frequently turn up in each other's beds, so I take it all with a grain of salt.
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