Shoe In

So, some bagger lady threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a campaign speech – I think I can safely say that, they are all campaign speeches now- in Las Vegas, and I must confess to some mixed emotions.

On the one hand, the next couple of years are going to be really ugly.  The baggers (I’m assuming the woman is a bagger, just because), who everybody assumed had hit bottom ages ago (maybe with the birth certificate thing, or the “women’s bodies have a way – by a combination of will power and magic, apparently – of terminating a pregnancy, so nobody ever gets pregnant from rape” thing, or maybe the shutting down the government thing), just keep going lower and lower.

Hillary Under Fire

Then again, how do we know it was a perfectly good shoe?  Was it an old sneaker?  Was it some sexy high heeled thing? Enquiring minds want to know.

But, mostly,  I’m just trying to figure out in what way this is different then the journalist who threw a shoe at Bush in Iraq.  On the one hand, Bush was a smirking war criminal delivering a gloating speech in a country he’d run roughshod over, ruining millions of lives.  Hillary Clinton is a nice lady who is running for President of the United States (of course she is – she wants that job badder than Cookie Monster wants a cookie).  Then again, she voted for that war, too.  If the lady was throwing the shoe about that, I’d be down with it.

So, I guess it’s just a question of which side you’re on.  To be fair, there are only two solutions possible.  Either we’ve got to crack down hard on shoe throwing –  maybe make everybody leave their shoes at the door and give them little booties to wear inside – or we declare open season.  Liberals are allowed to throw shoes at conservatives, conservatives are allowed to throw shoes at liberals.

Or tomatoes.  Or eggs.  Eggs would be fun.