<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Donovan,</span></font></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px">You can't be a foreigner in your own country. The foreigner was George W. Bush, the president of a foreign country.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px">As for the use of shoes as weapons of mass destruction, I suppose the only solution to this threat is to demand that all persons wishing to approach His Imperial Majesty leave their shoes outside the room and approach him humbly on bare feet.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px">What say you?</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px">Ralph</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="7" style="font: 32.0px Times"><b>[Vision2020] Shoes thrown at President Bush</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><b>Donovan Arnold</b> <a href="mailto:vision2020%40moscow.com?Subject=%5BVision2020%5D%20Shoes%20thrown%20at%20President%20Bush&In-Reply-To=BAY111-W308090C7268DA0D24650E7BDF40%40phx.gbl"><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1"><u>donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com </u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Mon Dec 15 22:31:38 PST 2008</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; ">It frightens me that a foreigner can shoot TWO shoes off and nearly hit the President of the United States before the Secret Service responded. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">What if those shoes were laced with a chemical poison or what if they were explosive?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Barack Obama is going to, no doubt, be under a lot of threats and it appears our Secret Service is asleep at the wheel. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">IMHO, the attacker should have been on his back with a bullet in his head before the first shoe made it across the room. This incident will no doubt embolden others to attempt more serious attacks on the President-Elect after he takes office. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Best Regards,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Donovan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div>
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