Whoever said “Stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” needs to do a serious rethink. At a Philadelphia rally this weekend, a naked author lobbed his own book at President Obama , who appeared to be unaware of the missile that just missed him by inches, on the Vernon Park stage.

After an amazingly agile duck from Prez Bush in Iraq when an irate man hurled a shoe at him( not the kind of sprightliness you expect from a man who needs an instruction manual for eating a pretzel), minders were left worried about the security gaffe, wondering what would have happened if the streaker was wielding a brick of James Joyce’s Ulysses in hardcover or a Webster Monster .

This was not just exuberance from an author in the buff who wanted his book to be “read by the Prez”. Apparently a website has offered up a 1million dollar booty to anyone who appears naked in august Presidential presence. It is not known if the streaker can now lay claim to his prize.
Embarrassed policemen were seen holding placards before the guy as they detained him, to protect his modesty from click-happy shutterbugs. Not the sort of gesture a publicity-stuntman streaker would warrant.

Bloggers are now gleefully speculating over the incident and drawing up lists of books which are Prez-worthy, with options like All The President’s Men cropping up. The fav choice is Freakonomics, to guide Obama through scathing currency wars and economy woes.
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