She just began the speech when the shoe whizzed by her right ear. “Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque du Soleil?” Hillary reacted. The crowd cheered at this. The shoe was thrown by a protester, a blond woman in a blue dress. She was taken into custody and will face criminal charges. Later, a piece of paper appearing to be a copy of a Defense Document from 1967, labeled confidential, referring to an operation “Cynthia” in Bolivia, was found after it was apparently thrown by the woman protesting.
For Hilary Clinton, this was a strange episode but similar things happened in the past to other political activists such a shoe-tossing attack on Bush during a press conference in Baghdad in 2008. She does well in Gallup’s most admired men and women poll; in 2013 she was named the most admired woman by Americans for the twelfth straight time and the eighteenth time over.
