I would like to preface this with - i freakin' hate that guy and what he has done to this country. That being said, that is so friggin' inappropriate. He still is the POTUS (regardless of being a TERRIBLE POTUS) and should be shown respect. If not for him, for hte office. You don't boo the president, the solution is dont be a dumbass this upcoming election. Becuase he won - so some of those boo-ers voted for him.

thats hilarious, i love how the announcer sounds like hes making a deal with the devil as he praises Bush, poor man…

Sorry April, while I agree 100% with your hatred of GWB, us Washingtonians booed him because we don't respect him. And if you take a look at the last election's voting stats, about 90% of us DIDN'T vote for him. My friends were at that game last night and they booed loudly. If you want to get upset about something, consider this: the DC government had over $600 million to waste on this stadium (DC isn't a baseball town, that's more of a Baltimore thing), but most of the public schools in DC are on the verge of condemnation.

no baseballers left behind

Mrs. Feisty thats apples and oranges. If i want to get upset about public schools Ill probably start with the ones in boston. But to be clear, im not upset about it - i just don't think its right.

I think my point is regardless of whether you don't like his politics, are against him, have attended marches on washington against his bad decisions, worked on campaigns of his competitors (all of which i have done) you should show him respect becuase in the end he's the president. he may be the worst we have had to date, but i don't find it approproate. If you wan't to showhim you'd don't approve, do it the right way.

"I think my point is regardless " i got lost in 2 thoughts

My point is

thats what i meant. Just because you don;t like someone doesnt mean you should't treat them with decency

–If you wan’t to showhim you’d don’t approve, do it the right way.–

How else to show him than with booing? Its very appropriate, he is so sheltered when he travels, it is good for him to hear to his FACE that people dont aprove or he will never get it

He don't care if you approve or not.He's lost Americans respect. He's lost world respect.

I agree with April. It's still disrespectful to boo the POTUS despite anything.

THIS IS BRILLIANT. wHY SHOULD WE SHOW HIM RESPECT? HE STOPPED RESPECTING THE COUNTRY WHEN HE STARTED REPEATEDLY LYING TO US YEARS AGO AND DRAGGED US INTO A PHONY WAR. AS A RESULT OF HIS SHATTING IN THE OVAL OFFICE, I MEAN (TWO TERMS OF PRESIDENCY EXCUSE ME) NO ONE IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY RESPECTS US. I WAS ALWAYS RAISED TO BELIEVE RESPECT IS A MUTUAL CONCEPT. THATS THE BEAUTY OF THIS COUNTRY REMEMBER, WE ARE ALLOWED TO QUESTION OUR LEADERS AND EVEN IMPEACH THEM WHEN THEY ARE MISBEHAVING. sINCE WE DONT HAVE THAT OPTION ANY MORE, I SAY BOO AWAY AND THROW SOME NACHOS AND PUMP CHEESE WHILE WERE AT IT.

The word speech in the First Amendment has been extended to a generous sense of "expression" — verbal, non-verbal, visual, symbolic.

Since when does it matter whether or not it is "polite" to publicly express discontent with an absolutely terrible political figure?

I think when you disregard the will of the citizens of your country over and over again, you should expect to be confronted with their discontent and anger from time to time.

I love watching the Brits boo in their House of Lords, that's some funny shiat right there. Maybe when you get elected Pres. you have to take the attitude of an Umpire, no matter what calls you make; you're going to upset people.

294 Days
8 hours
20 minutes
and around 20 seconds till this ass-hat is out of here!

but I'm not counting or anything.

April, I have to kindly disagree. GWB has proven himself to be a man who doesn't give a crap about what people think about him and doesn't give a crap about anyone but himself and his cronies. He has shown, in my opinion, that he does not deserve any respect, be it from Democrats, Progressives, Republicans, or single cell organisms. He makes appearances and gives speeches in neocon echo chambers, where everyone tries to shove their heads so far up his ass that if they turned their head a smidge to the left, they could see his colon.

Considering that all the "more appropriate" means of showing disapproval have had exactly zero impact, sometimes a little "you suck! boo!" is the only method of disapproval that will hit home. I'm not saying it's appropriate to physically assault the man, or throw tomatoes at him (and I'll refrain from divulging whether or not I would do such things, because I don't want my name to show up on an FBI watchlist), but expressing disapproval verbally is as appropriate as any other non-violent means of expression. Indeed, as cooter said, the First Amendment protects such expressions.

People who attend baseball games are probably some of the most "ordinary" people around (and by ordinary, I mean people who don't necessarily have time to campaign, or march on Washington, or write a blog…I don't mean it in any derogatory sense.) Marches on Washington have done exactly jack taco. They have no impact on this administration. Hell, Cheney's response to a question about the fact that the majority of Americans do not support the war was "So?"

So let 'em boo, say. I would have heartily joined in. I bet GWB left the stadium and thought, even if briefly, "man these people really hate me." And I hope it made him feel like shit.

booooooooooooooooooo

what ever happened to the lee harvey oswalds of the world?

It is painful in a way to watch people get booed–especially people who act so adorably and seem happy to be there. But then you remember that this particular person is recklessly trying to get your brother killed in Iraq and carries primary responsibility for murdering somewhere around 90,000 Iraqi civilians and mutilating their country, and then it starts to seem amazing that he ever steps outside. I hope THIS isn't what he loses sleep over–being unpopular at a baseball game. This is nothing.

agreed maisie… i don't know how he looks at himself in the mirror. and, sadly, i think THIS is what he will lose sleep over. 4000 american dead, 50,000 wounded, and he's tap dancing.

and that number is more like 900,000, not 90.

I don't know this as a fact. I heard that wounded persons are sent to Germany and if they die there it does not count in those #s

We ARE Rome.

I meant the House of Commons, for any of my UK friends who think I'm as dumb as GWB :)

i finally watched the clip. they weren't booing "that" loudly.

and chelsea, that would not suprise me at all. (no baseballers left behind… funny!)

also, the advances in medicine have been such that many soldiers are able to survive battle wounds that would have killed them in WWII or Korea or Vietnam. i would argue that the situation is really much much worse than the numbers suggest.

(Yes, thanks for the correction on the numbers.)

Chelsea- I have heard similar reports but cannot find confirmation. I'd be interested to read something about how casualties are calculated.

A marine from Wisconsin was nearly fatally injured in Iraq–he had part of his skull removed during surgery, never regained consciousness after the attack, indicated in a living will that he did not want to be kept alive via a feeding tube, and still, his life was preserved by machines and feeding tubes and he was sent home where he was not expected to recover. He was kept "alive" for almost a year. (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/08/godspeed_marine.html)

But he wasn't a casualty of the war.

yep. these assholes deserved to be booed alright.

Oh, gee, he deserves our respect? He lost mine the moment he started treating his "position" like running a corporation instead of a country. He doesn't care about anyone unless they're putting money in HIS pocket. He and Cheney are war mongering, greedy individuals laughing all the way to the bank.

It's good to see he has so much time on his hands that he can wave and smile at the crowd while how many American men and women are overseas fighting a war over oil?

as an international spectator, i'd like to agree on not booing. its just better to stay silent, it would have hurt him more not to even be acknowledged. what bush has done to the world is unforgivable. its all blood money, and karma will take its due with his and his descendants.

yes, but javi, there were other people cheering for him. so staying silent is basically letting him think, because of the cheering folks, "they like me, they like me, they really really like me."

boo away. hell, throw your hot dog. wait don't. that's a waste of good weiner.

Although I wasn't at the game, as a DC area resident, I have to clarify: not only did the VAST majority of DC residents not vote for GWB, as a previous poster pointed out… GWB also has been incredibly unsupportive of DC voting rights. Did you know that legal residents of the District of Columbia do not have full voting representation in Congress? Yep, that's right, in the capital of the most powerful democracy in the world, approx. half a million legal residents are disenfranchised. Clinton was far more supportive of DC voting rights. One of his last acts in office was to put DC's "No Taxation Without Representation" license plates on the Presidential limousine (those are now the standard issue plates in DC). One of GWB's first acts in office was to have those plates removed. GWB is not a popular guy around here…

I can't help it, I get second hand embarrassment for people whether I like them or not. I wish they hadn't of booed so I wouldn't feel so embarrassed right now. Ugh, I supposed the embarrassment is multi tiered.

If a service member is injured, and it requires medical attention that cannot be performed in country, they are airlifted to Germany. If they die there, they are not considered to have died in combat, as Germany is not a combat zone. They are considered to have "died of combat injuries (or something to that effect)", but not combat. It's only dying in combat if you're DOA in the combat zone. If people are injured as a result of an accident at work, they are not reported as a "combat injury" because the injury isn't as a result of a combat situation. Basically, If I got hit by a vehicle inside the green zone because the driver wasn't watching, I would not be labeled as a "combat injury". If I was hit by some dude carrying a VBIED and I survived, I would.