President Bush Booed At Baseball Game

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Huffington Post   |   March 30, 2008 08:51 PM


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President Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch tonight at the Washington Nationals season opener and the inaugural game at Washington's National Ballpark. But the President — an avid baseball fan and the former owner of the Texas Rangers — probably didn't get the fan response he was hoping for, as he was largely booed by the 41,000-person sellout crowd as he walked out to throw the pitch.

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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:17 PM on 04/03/2008

what a repulsive little man.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:43 PM on 04/03/2008

It's not polite to boo retards.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:03 PM on 04/03/2008

So?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:57 PM on 04/03/2008

cry baby whining liberals, homo, tree huggers with no spine hanging onto mommy's apron string, still on the baby bottle, afraid of the big bad world, grow up. You people are weird.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:34 PM on 04/03/2008

typical rightie - big e-muscles. Bet your parents were brother and sister you moron

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:58 PM on 04/03/2008

It must have broke your parent's hearts when you left krpton................

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:48 PM on 04/06/2008

I sware all these negative comments sound like a bunch of spoiled kindergarten kids, no wait, actually they are somewhat more mature than this, no wander this country is in the shape it is in, disrespect is rampart, I have to wander 'what kind' of parents raised you. I'd be ashamed of you if you were my child.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:21 PM on 04/03/2008


Some guy earlier claims that there were just as many cheering Bush as were Booing him. This was his version after watching the event on Fox News. Well, if that was the case, tell me this: Why did GWB have as sour a look on his face that I have ever seen him have! Had he heard more Cheers, he would've been smiling and lapping it up! It was clear to anyone watching it anywhere that he was "Not Pleased!"

That make any sense? (Not to you Trolls, I mean regular Americans watching here.)

Brick

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:59 AM on 04/03/2008

The ONLY reason Americans 'BOOED' BUSHin public is because
IT WAS OUR ONLY CHANCE!

Every other BUSHCO event is STAGED and SURROUNDED by corporate fascist elitists who sit there with eyes glazed over NOT believing that the idiot ruined their STOCK MARKET in the process , too!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 AM on 04/03/2008

well, not sure booing was an appropriate thing to do, but this guy has botched up things so badly, I guess what else can be said? So I'll add my own "BOO" to the chorus.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:40 AM on 04/03/2008

(frankly, fed up with the nonsense that somehow or other , no matter what, dissing the PRESIDENT is supposedly bad form/manners...SOrry, part of how this character was allowed to roll on and on and over so much was that few bothered to speak up and tell it like it really was and state so factually consequently, we've ALL paid a price far too high and that none deserved to bear !!! This particular CIC never has allowed OPPOSING opinions and but gave mouth service to saying he would listen to others but always did inform us that HE WOULD DECIDE and decide he has and with little vocalized pposition heard cuz , gee, we get reminded bad form when at war...HEY FOLKS< THIS CIC STARTED THE WAR THAT IS CAUSING THE PROBLEMS and made us far LESS secure now whether you can handle the truth or not, well it shows more than these days more are not only able but ready to do so and assign the proper accountability even if OUR ELECTED REPS CONTINUE TO FAIL TO DO SO OR REPRESENT OUR TRUE OPINONS !!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:45 PM on 04/03/2008

Glancing through a few of the comments tells one that some of Bush's opposition is juvenile, either in fact or in attitude.
When I read the headline, I thought it was unfortunate that the president was booed. It's just a baseball game and presumably there ought to be some events in life where politics can be put aside. But watching the video, it's obvious that as many people were applauding and cheering.
All that aside, President Bush certainly threw the ball with much grace under pressure. He wasn't letting the booing affect his pitch at all. I'm kind of surprised they didn't sign him to the team right there.
If we have an Obama administration, I guess at least we won't have to listen to booing at baseball games. Perhaps chants of "O-ba-ma" -- though one hopes not -- but certainly no booing.
It's the "left" wingers that like to protest things. Conservatives count among the traditional values they hold dear that of being polite in social settings. So they won't boo no matter whether they like or dislike an Obama presidency.
Bush has a mixed report card among those who voted for him (like me). But I'll give him credit for not letting public opinion affect his decision making -- or his baseball pitch.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:44 PM on 04/02/2008

leave it to a GOPer to start calling people names. people who oppose bush aren't juvenile, they're rational.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:06 PM on 04/03/2008

It was a baseball game.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:50 PM on 04/04/2008

wow. you're just deluded, apparently. Polite? Like when Cheney said fuck off on the senate floor. Very polite. Conservative values have not existed for some time, and have never included being polite...
It was not unfortunate the "president" was booed. He's a miserable failure as a president and as a human being. The booing was completely appropriate. Perhaps ignoring the will of the people is starting to rub the people the wrong way? Perhaps ignoring the destruction he's caused has also started to rub the ruined the wrong way? And, btw, Bush is plenty good at impolite himself.

and, ONLY the deluded are holding mixed report cards on bushco. Just give it up and say you made a huge mistake (twice in your case) by voting this criminal idiot into what used to be a respected office.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:56 AM on 04/03/2008

Yeah. I think it's FanTastic that a democratically elected President ignored the little folks he's supposed t' be representing. Everyone knows we're all too stupid to make the important decisions.

It's only Left wingers that like to protest things? Show me a handful of Pro-life Left Wingers, would ya? Protesting is for everyone these days. And not all of us "left wingers" are for Obama, either. Changing the channel a few nights a week might help you out a bit.

Mixed? Really? I would think that being able to form a coherent sentances for the microphones would rate higher than being polite - I've certainly preferred someone who could spell to someone who could open a door so (for that, and SO much more) Bush gets a big fat F from me. Respect is earned, not guaranteed, and this Rope-a-dope president has done nothing but shit on me. I'm disappointed that boo'd was all he got.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:42 AM on 04/03/2008

There are 4000+ of our women and men dead on the filling fields of Iraq due to the lies that Mr. Bush and his Neocons perpetrated on the American people. He deserves more than booing. Impeachment and a long prison term are more appropriate. Wake up America, stop protecting this criminal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:18 AM on 04/03/2008

One more try: Left-wing pro-lifers that would block the doors to an Abortion Clinic.

Bah!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:55 AM on 04/03/2008

Erm, to clarify: Left wing Pro-Lifers that will block doors to a pro-life clinic.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:50 AM on 04/03/2008

I think the best response from the American Public at this event would have been "Dead Silence", rather than booing and cheering. That would have said it all.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:29 AM on 04/03/2008

That's wonderful that Bush doesn't listen to public opinion. Considering he turned a surplus into a record deficit, an economic boom into a recession, let those responsible for 9/11 slip away, and start an unnecessary and horribly costly war, it's wonderful that his intellect is so static and infantile that he continuously disregards the will of the people. I can only imagine the contempt he has for the average citizen.

Regarding conservative politeness.... $40 million spent on the Star Report.... Thanks. The country really needed that.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:39 PM on 04/02/2008

Yeah,like Bush actually gives a rat's ass. He hasn't lost a minute sleep over the deaths of over a million people-including over 4,000 of our troops- you really think a few thousand boos at a ballgame is gonna dent that ego

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:41 PM on 04/02/2008

Ah well. He can kill a few hundred thousand innocent people over bullsh*t and the worst he gets are a few thousand "boo"s. It's good to be the king.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:30 PM on 04/02/2008

Gosh. How Akward. HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA..

Too bad CHENEY wasn't there. People would've thrown stuff.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:24 PM on 04/02/2008

SO-

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:40 PM on 04/02/2008

Wow! He wanted to be commissioner of Baseball more than President, so that has got to smart. On the other hand, I'm thrilled that he's having to suffer a bit, since he's been the cause of so much suffering himself. He should really be ashamed to show his face in public, and maybe now he's starting to realize that people despise him for his actions the last 8 years.
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:58 PM on 04/01/2008

who taught a monkey how to throw a baseball?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:09 AM on 04/02/2008

He practiced with pooo....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:40 AM on 04/03/2008

Punk.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:44 PM on 04/01/2008

He got let off far too easy

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:03 PM on 04/01/2008

I think if a President is so despised by the people FOR GOOD REASON, booing is the polite response. The baseball fans could have chanted "traitor", thrown things, protested the game, done the wave with middle fingers raised, a whole host of things... Booing was actually a polite response!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:48 AM on 04/03/2008

but you liberals can go on thinking Fox news is the bad camper. even if its an opinion that liberals agree with, well that qualifies as news. More proof that liberalism is a mental disorder

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:29 PM on 04/01/2008

Let me get this straight, the President of the United States gets clearly booed by the America public showing their anger at his wreckless policies and that's not news? Oh, is Brittany shaving her head again or something?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:37 AM on 04/02/2008

More proof that Repugs are mean spirited. Get a life...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:58 AM on 04/02/2008

I BET you, even though I wouldn't watch Faux on a bet (I value the neurons I have left), that Faux didn't show the booing. What's that again, about what qualifies as news? What was that about fair and balanced? They probably cut it to him waving as he walked out, and the pitch itself. Talked over it, if they had to; if they couldn't get clean audio without that "left extremist" booing.

President Bush stole his office, has sold huge chunks of the government off to private interests, and run the rest into the ground with his right-extremism, and you're still backing him up. That doesn't speak well for your intelligence, patriotism, or even horse-sense.

It will take several more balanced presidencies to mend the damage he's done.

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stop watching tv.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:32 PM on 04/01/2008

When I watched the Fox version ALL I HEARD WERE CHEERS! So good catch!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:47 PM on 04/02/2008

Let me phrase this so you can understand. R U on drugs? R jest stoopid?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:23 PM on 04/01/2008

WHAT!? Could you try rephrasing that as a coherent thought?

Snerd

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:51 PM on 04/01/2008

I agree! Its the first time gw was in a situation that wasn't RIGGED...........................................

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:11 PM on 04/01/2008

just proves that huffingtonpost is not a newsource but an opinion source

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:27 PM on 04/01/2008