Ducking

Ok, so this properly belongs on my defunct politics blog, but the election is over anyway. So Josh Marshall thinks that the Secret Service reacted pretty slowly to Bush's getting shoes thrown at him, and also notes that Bush reacted pretty quickly in his ducking. But the guy threw both his shoes at Bush, one at a time. Aside from the obvious reasoning of two feet = two shoes to throw, so maybe another one's coming, you'd think that the president would be trained at some point that if a projectile is hurled at him, he needs to get out of the situation immediately. True, Bush successfully dodged both shoes, but why was he even at the lectern for the second one? There was enough of a gap for him to have done something else, or even just remained crouching behind the lectern. Granted, not the most dignified of positions, but getting hit in the head by a shoe would have been a lot worse.