Humbug. I bet you said the same thing when that dude threw shoes at George W. Bush.
No. He's clearly a man with a very severe problem with the actions initiated by the president. He's no hero, sure, but he's not mentally unbalanced, just mighty pissed off. Someone Spits in your face and calls your mother a whore, you punch the guy in the mouth - and he sees bush as the guy who invaded his country, how do you think he felt? And anyway, I bet you're one of those people who say Bush is stupid, when he's attended both Harvard and Yale, and holds a master's degree in business. Oh, but of course, try the usual "Bribery and Influence" excuse, while simultaneously forgetting that these are two of the most, if not the two most, prestigious educational institutions in America, where foreign royalty are known to sometimes send their children to study, so if either of those worked, a degree from Harvard or Yale wouldn't be worth the paper it's printed on, and everybody would know it.
I still can't believe that shoe thrower didn't get shot.
...seriously, there could have been a bloody bomb in one of those shoes, what were the blasted Secret Service doing? Sleeping? Someone runs up and you have time to tackle them, sure you do it, but someone is throwing something, that just seems to scream "SHOOT" to me.
He only needed to be a suicide bomber with a small shrapnel explosive in each shoe and old Bush would have been Bush whacked.
Can't argue that, though - I understand you can't have them just hanging about looking less than pretty, but bloody hell they were slow off the mark. By the Time they caught him, Bush was kicking back in the hotel on his third beer, just about.