Old Brown Shoe

I see via Rick Perlstein that the folks at the Fighting Liberals Web site are encouraging their readers to send their old shoes to the White House.

Perlstein opposes:

Liberals should not make light of or license the physical assault on the leader of a sovereign state, no matter how much he's deservedly hated. This is not how we do politics, unless we're in favor something tending toward anarchy, or fascism.

The f-bomb might be a little dramatic under the circumstances, and God knows Bush deserves worse in the cosmic scheme of things than to have to duck a piece of footwear, but count me with Perlstein. Liberals shouldn't encourage, as Rick says, physical assaults on heads of state, no matter how benign or funny.

History teaches us that it doesn't take very long for things to pass from funny to...uh, not so funny at all. To the extent that I have any moral suasion over you, I encourage my loyal readers to keep yer shoes on when Gordon Brown passes by.