Security, shoes, economy, jobs and the President
Security personnel guarding the President (US of A) are experts - if it was a bullet or a bomb that was hurled at President Bush, they would have stood between the President and the bullet/bomb, but then nobody told them about shoes or trained them on how to handle shoes and the most powerful man on Earth was left to defend himself against those shoes - and what a great job he did in ducking those shoes.
Now those shoes have become very popular. BBC reports that the shoe maker Baydan Shoes, has tens of thousands of orders from around the world - including from the US and Iraq. The shoe was called Model 271 but has been renamed Bush shoe. According to the shop's owner, Ramazan Baydan , a US firm has ordered 18,000 pairs, a further 15,000 pairs are destined for Iraq and a British distributor has asked to be the firm's European sales representative - and had to take on 100 extra workers to cope with the demand.
A shoe thrown at the President has created employment, more money in the market and maybe a little succour in these troubled times.