It takes no courage at all to throw something at an American president, as VDH says. Real courage would be throwing a shoe at Saddam or any other Arab/Persian dictator. But that, of course, would get you a noose–if the security police let you live long enough to make it to the scaffold.
UPDATE: Looks like he only got a beating. Tough cookies, Muntazer. Ah, but now he has a new excuse. The old assault-on-the-Koran libel. Bosh.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
And that about sums that up. Thanks for it. I’m a bit aggravated by the elation of some here in the US who seem to completely miss the deeper point made by this idiot who flung his shoes.
Just wait until some clown throws a shoe at Barry. They won’t be elated at all.