Fashion

Hillary Clinton or George W. Bush: Who Dodged Flying Shoes Better?

Paul ConstantApril 11, 2014 1:29 pmJuly 12, 2022 3:58 pm

Hillary Clinton dodged a shoe yesterday and, after mistaking it for a bat, made a Cirque du Soleil joke:

George W. Bush looked slicker as he dodged his pair of shoes in 2008, but he didn’t have a snappy comeback:

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