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Anonymous
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I am open to booing or other indications of dissent during a purely political speech or presentation. I do not think the current president should be 'booed' at a family fun baseball event--(despite the mom jeans, yikes!). But I equally did not like the gratuitous booing "goodbye" of Bush by crowd members (and glancing policy references in Obama's speech) during the inauguration--it really changed the tone and my enjoyment of the historic ceremony.
What's up with the incivility in the few occasions where we Americans might put aside our politics and stand together? |
jsteele
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It's possible that the booing (which to me sounded like it was drowned out by cheers) was due to Obama wearing a White Sox jersey (in St. Louis). In that case, the booing was sporting rather than political.
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Anonymous
| St. Louis fans don't boo opposing teams. |
Anonymous
| I am very much against booing the President of the United States. You salute the office, not the man. But, I have to say that his throw was really lame. |
Anonymous
It was much better than the last guy, you know the one who actually owned a team. |
Anonymous
| No, it actually wasn't a better pitch than the last guy, the one who owned the team. But isn't that beside the point? I wondered if the booing was for the jersey, or just middle American resistance to some of the big government initiatives coming down the pipeline one after the other right now--they saw their chance to let the one responsible know how they felt, and took it? I have been traveling through the country this summer and not everyone is on board with the onslaught of legislation since the stimulus, and they have their considered reasons. I guess, even though I am not on board either, I think there are venues to boo and venues not to boo. I just wish we could have real debate (these fake town hall meetings are freaking me out!) but also real moments like inaugurations or baseball games where we set politics aside and come together... we are a democracy and he, gulp, is our president... --OP |
Anonymous
How objective of you! Ha! |
Anonymous
| People are just fed-up. That's why you heard some boos among cheers. |
Anonymous
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Sorry -- I would have booed Bush if I had attended. I understand the concern about civility and respect for the office but I thought Bush was the worst president in, I don't know, a century at least.
So given all that, I can't complain if people boo Obama. They happen to be wrong but, hey, it's only fair that they should get their chance to boo, too. |
Anonymous
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If I saw Obama I would extend middle finger and call him out for the loser that he is. My mom would be mad at me but so what he has, in less than one year, completely ruined this country and it may never come back to being normal again.
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Anonymous
| St. Louis and the Chicago White Sox have no real baseball rivalry so I don't think that would be the reason for the booing. And he throws like a girl. |
Anonymous
| Well, for me the issue is the 'mom jeans'. Was that his way of trying to blend in Middle America????? |
Anonymous
No. Poster was objectively correct. Bush's throw hit the dirt. |
Anonymous
Wait. Was he the one who took a prosperous economy and a budget surplus and turned it into a shithole economy with a huge debt, spending what's left of our money going to war with the wrong country? I thought it was the other guy. Thanks for setting me straight. |
Anonymous
| People, we're acting like kids in a playground again. How about we save time by posting "SYOP" (so's your old president!")? |