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SHOES MAKE THE MAN….Bloomberg is on the case with news you can use. The original shoes tossed at George Bush in Iraq last Sunday may have been destroyed, but there are plenty more where those came from:

The brown, thick-soled “Model 271” may soon be renamed “The Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush,” Ramazan Baydan, who owns the Istanbul-based producer Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic., said in a telephone interview today.

….Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 more staff to meet demand, he said.

….Baydan has received a request for 4,000 pairs from a company called Davidson, based in Maryland. He declined to provide further details.

Maybe Barack Obama needs a pair or two?

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