Now 34 days from retirement, President Bush this week narrowly avoided taking a shoe to the head. But in a period where the incoming Obama administration dominates the news, the incident inspires Global Pulse in our upcoming episode to take one more look at the legacy that our current president leaves behind.

In the blogosphere, a heavy dose of skepticism reigns. At the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin writes that this weekend, "one rebellious Iraqi reporter -- and two flying items of footwear -- punctured Bush's historical revisionism and offered a powerful metaphor for the counter-argument that the war was a disastrous mistake and is far from over." Adam Serwer at the American Prospect asks, "Can there be a president who has behaved more recklessly or disrespectfully in proportion to the sacrifice he asked of the men and women under his command?" Andrew Sullivan worries that Bush's shoe-throwing assailant could be tortured in US custody, "a public relations and military crisis -- one that manages to bring all the idiocy and dumb cruelty of the Bush-Cheney years together."

But how will Bush be remembered beyond Baghdad and Washington? We search for clues in this week's Global Pulse.