DC FOX 5: White House Protestors Throw Shoes at Bush Effigy

WASHINGTON, DC - December 17th, 2008 -
President Bush may have though he'd see the last of shoes being thrown his way, but the anti-war group Code Pink showed up at the White House Wednesday to stage a protest inspired by the President's much-discussed shoe ducking incident.

The protesters took turns throwing shoes at a large puppet that was made up to look like President Bush. A shoe memorial was also laid out on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to represent the Iraqi civilians who have been killed during the war.

The group's founder, Medea Benjamin, says she views the Iraqi reporter who threw his footwear at the president as a role model, saying "We feel that the Iraq reporter is now a hero throughout the world because he has expressed the sentiment of millions of people who are so angry at George Bush's policies"

Critics of Code Pink say the event was more publicity stunt than constructive discussion of the problems facing a post-Bush administration. Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, says Code Pink may have to change its style once Barack Obama inherits both the White House and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying "There is a mainstream left which respectfully discusses what's happened in Iraq and then there is Code Pink - no where near respectful - and their actions are out of the mainstream."

The U.S. Secret Service stood by during the protests; however there were no conflicts with authorities and no arrests were made.

Source: http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=8093611&version=...

For background, and updates, go to Code Pink's web site, at: http://www.codepinkalert.org/

Also visit:
http://nikolasschiller.com/blog/

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[aliman3819]

thanks to everybody who finally realized that Bush illegally invaded IRAQ

[raniaweb]

Bush is a criminal

[LocalRandomz]

i would go and murder everyone at that protest

[leyeen]

hm..if i were in a room with hitler,osama and bush and a gun with two bullets

i would shoot bush twice..

haha jk

[outerspit55]

@ElMaLiCano ??

[ElMaLiCano]

@outerspit55 yea .. and millions of deaths

[noobkiller2241]

curioooooosity

[saadsnake6]

hahahahahahahahahaahha

[outerspit55]

bush was a terrible president but you gotta admit he gave us laughs

[fcgfgcfg]

Bush should be in Hague at the Court of Justice along with Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[cano21]

Can you imagine if the tea partiers did this with an obama effigy?? There would be riot troops brought out to "fight back the racists" Double standard much?????

[RachTrinity]

HATE MUCH?