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I think it would be easier at this point to list the things the masses do understand.

Two reasons why this is entirely inappropriate. The President was there because:

1) He is the president.

2) He is a baseball enthusiast.

It would, IMO, have been an entirely different issue if he was using the opening night stage as an opportunity to pander for votes, or push for re-election (or the election of John McCain), or to reference anything political in any way would have made it acceptable to be booed, but coming to throw out the first pitch at Nationals Park and to add to the importance and mystique of the event for a franchise that really needed a night like that...

I mean, this has nothing to do with politics. If you are a Nats fan, or even just a baseball fan who was present at that game, and you didn't think it was a privledge or at least slightly cool that the President of the United States was throwing out the first pitch, then I can say with confidence that you would be a simpleton of the highest order.

Then again, these are the same people who have already written off the Cerrato/Zorn era as failure, so I guess we didn't really learn anything new.