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Inauguration Watch: Bush Booed
Boos echoed throughout the crowd as President Bush, Vice President Cheney and several GOP congressmen were introduced before the swearing-in ceremony, although some in the crowd disagreed.
“I can’t imagine how it must feel for him — maybe we should be respectful,” said a man from Iowa standing near the World War II Memorial.
Former Oklahoma state senator Maxine Horner (D-Tulsa) and others near her scolded those who booed. “He’s still our president,” one man said.
A lot of bad vibes behind-the-scenes between Carter and Clinton as well…
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That is pathetic.
Good riddance, Bush & Cheney. Your ‘legacy’ is already cast in stone.
Not pathetic, well deserved. I wish everyone had thrown shoes at him!
Way to stay classy.
The way I see it he finally had to hear what the people had to say. He drowned us all out for 8 years while he looted our country and destroyed our name.
To those who say there’s and a place for everything. This was the only chance we got. It was long overdue.
Agreed. Totally deserved. Nixon was a choir boy compared to these horrible men, & he was forced out in disgrace. They should be ashamed of what they’ve done & the mess everyone will have to clean up.
Our national disgrace is finally over
Typical Obama zealots. No class. You can disagree with President Bush’s policies but having absolutely no respect for the Presidential office at a Presidential Inaugauration is a total disgrace.! But then again, what should be expected from a crowd whose applause for Aretha Franklin was much greater than Vice President Biden? No surprise here. Happy four (or eight) years. Who will you take your anger out on now?
Anyone who does not feel the boos were deserved by that murderer and his puppeteers needs to learn about what that administration has really done around the world.
Our country went from being the annoying world policeman to the axis of evil in the eyes of much of the world. Our relations with Europe and Russia have cooled significantly. We invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, which has already seen unbelievable amounts of destructive action from our policy and previous covert and overt operations. In addition, WE put Saddam Hussein into power in the first place. We tore down democracy in the name of capitalism, and put a madman in control because it suited our business interests decades ago.
My country, (The USA) has a lot of work to do to repair its relations with the world.
If you live in the US, and you don’t like what I am saying, that is your right. However, I strongly suggest that you seek an education. Via research of actual documents from our history, every claim I have made here is fully substantiated. In addition, this is just the tip of the monstrous iceberg of the crimes of the Neo-Conservatives and their puppet, George W. Bush. If you don’t believe so, then look it up via primary sources. Second, and third-party sources are completely useless, unless you want to lie to people.
If you don’t understand what I have said, see the previous part where I suggest education.
Rather you agree or not with the way Bush handled things, booing him is not only rude and disrespectful but it shows absolutely no class on your part. It’s a scary thought to think that the low class people who are booing the commander in chief are the ones who are taking over our country!!! What a shame.
Each other since that’s how they like to do things. I’m sure violence will be involved somehow. *Rolls eyes*
Wow. Just, wow.
So would you have booed Clinton if she had been elected because she voted for action in Iraq? You make it sound like Democrats are innocent as new born babies. What a joke.
You are in for a rude awakening in a few months when you realize that the new boss is the same as the old boss.
1. 3000-4000 soldiers dead in Iraq (over nothing)
2. Cheney: “Go (bleep) yourself”
3. Valerie Plame “outed” & had her life put at risk for saying there were no WMDs (which there weren’t)
4. U.S. attorneys fired for not doing their mob hits on administration enemies
Yeah “class” & “non-violence.” Sure. Uh-huh. Whatever buddy.
To those of you who think booing was improper for a lying, mass murdering, thief…
Perhaps we should have done the biblical and stoned him to death instead. Maybe you would have found that more suitable.
As an ardent Obama supporter, I hoped that Bush and his cronies would not be booed. This is only out of respect for the office, not the man.
I also didn’t want to give the sore losers any reason to finger point and make lofty comments about “class”. As if, right?
However, as a previous poster pointed out, there is a time and place for everything. There was no other occassion for George Bush or Dick Cheney to come in contact with such a large gathering of their fellow Americans. If their handlers had sonehow fooled them into thinking that they were not widely despised, now they know the truth.
Booing them was not cool, but they deserved it if ever anyone did.
OJ Simpson was responsible for the deaths of just two people (ok, ok- “allegedly”), but many of the same people who have a great deal of righteous scorn for The Juice somehow find it in their hearts to defend these two nefarious individuals, who needlessly sent thousands of heroic American servicemembers to their deaths. Where is your sense of proportion, people?
Again, booing them wasn’t cool and it wasn’t classy, but neither were most of the things Bush and Cheney did while in office. To not have at least some empathy for the people who booed them is pretty callous.
i bet the people who booed were the first ones to cash that stimulus payment check from bush…
1. 3000-4000 soldiers died over nothing?
Liberating 25 million Iraqi people is nothing?
Taking down a dictator who had hundreds of thousands of human beings murdered, tortured and raped from 1979 to 2003 is nothing?
You are telling the families of the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives, that there loved ones died for nothing!
Liberal compassion and tolerance at its best. “Uh-huh.Whatever buddy”
Hi Linda…are you serious? “he finally got to hear what the people had to say???”
What do you think he has been listening to for at least the past 4+ years? Have you not once picked up on the incalulable number of personal attacks and the unabashed hatred and vitriol levelled at him from the drive by media, third rate politicians, and hollywood elite morons?
The fact that you and others with your position don’t acknowledge this demonstrates an intellectual dishonesty beyond belief.
I watch in dismay at how the the Obama crowd says it is time to treat each other with respect. That it is time to rise above the differences that separate us…blah blah blah… how hollow that is when you read the abhorent content of some of these posts that are simply “hate speach” against a man who served his country for 8 years. I don’t see change here. I don’t see anything new.
Although you would never accept this (unless someone on “The View” or Oprah, or MSNBC told you it was so) George Bush is a gracious man.
Take a step back for a minute… and think about this….considering all of the junk he has had thrown at him deserved or otherwise, has he ever once to your knowledge lashed back? Has he ever once lowered himself to the level of his accusers? The answer is no, and I would offer that very few could handle what he has had to endure. Is he perfect? ofcourse not. Who is? The new guy is far from perfect as well…although the cultists who are blindly following him now would like to think so and will do their best to portray him as such.
If you really want to give some credibility to the message of “change” that Mr. Obama espouses, I dare you to start with treating the former president with the respect that he deserves as a human being. Then…I might actually buy into the line that Mr.Obama and his followers are selling.
So right Angie.
Angy, angry liberals. How will you deal with President Obama in office? You will never admit disagreeing with any of his policies. Who can you direct your anger to now? I suggest you jump on some anger management classes. Also maybe an evaluation for pathological lying and delusional behavior.
If the 25 million Iraqi people are now liberated, enjoying all the rights, freedoms, and safety that we are, then why are we still in Iraq?
Obviously somebody over there isn’t happy with us if 4,000 soldiers have been killed. Obviously Iraq isn’t some liberated paradise, or else we wouldn’t be spending 140 billion dollars a year on the war. Duh.
Liberated paradise? Who said that? Iraqis now enjoy all the rights freedoms and safety that we do here in America? Who said that? People like you love to twist words. Iraq has been liberated from dictatorship. “Duh”
Women are now voting! Children are attending school! 98% children have been vaccinated. 33,000 new businesses have started up since the end of the war. 18,000 border agents are protecting Iraq’s borders. 25% of the Iraqi parliament is made up of women. There are 150 newspapers and TV programs that discuss politics freely! It’s work in progress. “Duh”
I forget, was (West) Germany or Japan a “liberated paradise” immediately following WWII?
They took several years to rebuild, and that was without the added difficulty of having to deal with the Shiite, Sunni, Kurd ‘differences’. But they rebuilt stronger than they were before and if you ask the folks that were around before and after the fact, I suspect they would tell you they prefer the after scenario.
Duh.
Class is a word that is always only used by those who don’t possess it.
You are a fool who does not realize that these idiots killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s (actual people)and thousands of Americans while republicans looted our country. They will both be waterboarded in their sleep if they have any conscience at all.
Initially I thought it was bad form, but upon reflection Bush deserved to be booed, he earned it, for Bush has been running from his destiny by speaking only at carefully screened venues or on base to military members, so it was meant to be, and the fact no shoes were thrown, means there was great restraint and so a booing is nothing as compared to nearly the 5,000 brave soldiers in this war of choice, crafted by Bush’s propaganda, that everyone, including Congress was fooled. In my view, Bush got off very lightly.
So what you’re saying is at the end of
Mussolini’s reign the Italian people
should have applauded him instead of
hanging him from a lamp post.
I have to say that I would not have booed him, but I understand how many did. A lot of us have gotten screwed these past few years, and although we can’t lay everything at the president’s door, there are always those who will try. Let’s just look to the future and hope that this anger will pass because anger does nothing but eat the soul.
The behavior of all of those that booed is disgraceful. Even if you don’t appreciate or agree with the difficult job that he has done it sadly displays the mentality of much of our country and goes to show that all too many people are not raised to act better than that. To put it in words that they might understand ‘Ain’t ya got no cooth?’
Christopher, did you make this up? “Class is a word that is always only used by those who don’t possess it”
This is the behavior I was talking about
I was there. I booed loudly. I traveled to battleground states to canvass for Obama with the mother of an American soldier. She said that her son and many of his military friends realized that they had been sent to that war to work for Haliburton. Dick Cheney is a sick disgrace and Bush was his puppet. They are truly disgusting. They should be arrested and I hope they will be. I can’t believe we had mass murderers leading our country.