GW Bush booed at Nationals' opener

[mooby]

I'm gonna keep this one simple. I see the points both sides make, and while I don't approve of some people booing the President at a baseball game, people do have their freedom and some decide to use it however they see fit. I don't agree with the decisions he has made and I damn sure won't be complaining when he leaves office in fall, but I think it's disrespectful to boo a man who is doing something that is in no way connected with his political agenda.

I mean if he was making a political speech in your hometown and a few people who didn't like him decided to show up and boo him after he tries to talk about a bad decision he made than w/e, that is the right forum to do it at. I don't think much of booers at all, whether at a football game or anywhere else. If you don't like a person simply don't say anything at all. I'm sure if Bush had been introduced and all you heard was crickets and a few smatterings of applause that would've said more (and you would've shown yourself to be classier) than a bunch of people booing him.

I understand though there will always be people in this country that don't care and that's why I wasn't suprised by it. And for the GTripp/Matty argument, I think there is a difference between the decisions a man makes and what he really is like, especially when you are the President of one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world. I'm not gonna say that none of his decisions were based solely on what he thought, because I'm sure some were, but he has all those advisors and people that try to influence his decisions, but contrary to popular belief running the country isn't a one man show. One man may hold most of the power, but some of his actions are probably influenced by others. And no, I'm not saying the balance of his actions influenced by himself/others is like 20/80, because judging on what he's done it definitely doesn't look like it, but it's probably somewhere along the lines of 60/40 or 65/35. I don't think there will ever be a definitive number though simply because nobody except himself could truly reveal that. Either way, what I've said has swayed from the topic at hand, so to sum it up, I agree with everyone else that thinks its' disrespectful.