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Obama Site Linked to 'Bush Shoe Toss' Event
Obama Site Linked to 'Bush Shoe Toss' Event
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Click here to see the reference to the Jan. 19 'Bush Shoe Toss' which was recently deleted from USAService.org. Colin Powell held a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, touting the launch of Barack...
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Change! 'Obama Celebration and Bush Shoe Toss'
JammieWearingFoolClassy . There was George Bush the other day being genuine and wishing Barack Obama the best during a White House visit. Meanwhile, Obama's people are pushing low rent crap like this. Change. My. Ass. Colin Powell held a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, touting the launch of Barack Obama's new website, USAService.org, which allows Americans to find -- and to promote -- local service opportunities that are searchable by zip code. President Bush's former Secretary of State said he was on the site this morning and vouched for its usefulness . But here's betting ...

Lefties Use Obama’s New Local Service Website To Promote Event Celebrating Iraqi Shoe Thrower
Say Anything — Your tax dollars, hard at work: Colin Powell held a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, touting the launch of Barack Obama’s new website, USAService.org, which allows Americans to find—and to promote—local service opportunities that are searchable by zip code. President Bush’s former Secretary of State said he was on the site this morning and vouched for its usefulness. But here’s betting that Powell didn’t have time to go through all of the events on it. ...

Giving Obama ‘A Chance’… Or Not
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Even Obama’s own gegaw website operations are indulging in immature, hateful, anti-Republican efforts. On Obama’s USAService.org site, an entry for a public event is listed as an opportunity for fans of Obama to “celebrate” his ascendancy by having a “Bush Shoe Toss.” Now, this USAService website is supposed to be one where average, everyday Americans can find local opportunities to give “service” to the community. How a partisan hate event like a “Bush shoe toss” lends service to the community is anyone’s ...

Giving Obama ‘A Chance’… Or Not
Stop The ACLU — ... away from House minority Republicans, even though the Republicans are the ones responsible for creating the rules that offered the other side a modicum of influence on debate in the first place. So much for common decency there! Even Obama’s own gegaw website operations are indulging in immature, hateful, anti-Republican efforts. On Obama’s USAService.org site, an entry for a public event is listed as an opportunity for fans of Obama to “celebrate” his ascendancy by having a “ Bush Shoe Toss .” Now, this USAService website is supposed to be one where average, everyday ...

Shoes, Snark, Suffering: Whatever Happened to Muntadar al-Zaidi?
Firedoglake — ... -- quite a phrase. Most of us don't get a "spirit" named for ourselves. But then, his was quite a remarkable act of protest -- probably the single most memorable act of individual symbolic protest against the American presence in Iraq. And one with a life of its own, with consequences and resonances far outstripping whatever was in al-Zaidi's mind the moment he threw the shoes: it's bound up with everything from violence in London to stupid Internet games to tongue-in-cheek protests in America to asinine wingnut faux-outrage at the impolite horror of ...

Shoe-Throwing Crap
Whiskey Fire — ... al-Zaidi -- quite a phrase. Most of us don't get a "spirit" named for ourselves. But then, his was quite a remarkable act of protest -- probably the single most memorable act of individual symbolic protest against the American presence in Iraq. And one with a life of its own, with consequences and resonances far outstripping whatever was in al-Zaidi's mind the moment he threw the shoes: it's bound up with everything from violence in London to stupid Internet games to tongue-in-cheek protests in America to asinine wingnut faux-outrage at the impolite horror of ...

ABC NEWS: Obama Site Linked to ‘Bush Shoe Toss’ Event. …
Instapundit — ABC NEWS: Obama Site Linked to ‘Bush Shoe Toss’ Event.

Barack Obama Yawns at Hate. Again.
The Sundries Shack — Barely concealed inside each progressive leftist is a capering homunculus of hatred just dying to come out. Wanting to see how the Web site [Barack Obama's new USAService.org] works, I typed in my hometown zip code in Los Angeles to find events within a 10-mile radius. It pointed me to several events, including a blood drive, a graffiti cleanup, and an “Obama Celebration and Bush Shoe Toss.” The event, which was listed as a “Day of Service — January 19,” is taking place at the soon-to-open Carnivale Café on the corner of Vermont and Normal. “Come celebrate with us,” wrote ...

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: the ghastly lie that is 'economic inequality'
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... proof: Hamas exploitation of civilians : Israel Matzav CNN's collaboration with Pallywood's latest production : LiveLeak My predictions for the Obama 'presidency' : Euphoric Reality Iran using fronts to get bomb parts from U.S. : Washington Post Joe the Plumber in Sderot : Jerusalem Post Annals of Global Warming : Pajamas Media (Roger Kimball) If Hamas is the victim, why is Ramallah so quiet : Scotland on Sunday (Michael Gove) Obama Site Linked to 'Bush Shoe Toss' Event : ABC News Michelle rips Obama's simulus plan and ...

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