Memories: The Kiss or the Shoes?
 

What will be our memory from these last weeks under Bush? Will it be the image of Barbra Streisand, all dressed up to receive her Kennedy award at a ceremony, being approached by her supposed enemy, the President, and the two of them being all respectful and proper, exchanging a kiss? Or will it be the image of the Baghdad-based journalist hurling his shoes at Bush and shouting at him, “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!” Perhaps maybe we'll remember the noises coming from the side room where this journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, can be heard crying in agony from the pummeling he has just taken from our security team?