Bush dodges the first shoe. The second shoe is thrown hard, and barely misses.

“Among Muslims, throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a shoe faces another person, is considered an insult.”

Give me a break. There is no significance to the shoe. A shoe is a shoe when it’s thrown. At that level of absurdity, metaphors do not exist. You throw a shoe at someone and symbolism goes out the door.