The best part of the George Bush Shoe Incident is definitely the President’s priceless one-liner: “I saw into his sole.”
That’s about as funny as puns get. If sense of humor is a good rough guide to intelligence, then either Bush is really pretty smart or has a pretty smart aide.
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