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Jamaal510

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12. I'm torn on this video.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 02:16 AM

Jan 2013

On one hand, I feel like perhaps it was in poor taste for them to boo Bush. But on the other hand, he didn't legitimately win in 2000 and he swiftboated Kerry in '04, he started several wars and got thousands of Americans killed over oil, his response was slow with Katrina, and he helped shrink the middle class in order to have tax cuts for the top 1%.

If it were me in the audience, I wouldn't have booed, but I definitely wouldn't have been applauding.

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Nostalgia: Bush gets booed at the 1/20/09 inauguration [View all] alp227 Jan 2013 OP

sigh. We should be better than that. Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #1

Bush left office with Nixon's approval numbers. Dawson Leery Jan 2013 #2

I'm not suggesting that either was popular or deserved adoration. Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #3

Bush was appointed. He was already a piece of crud before the election. R. Daneel Olivaw Jan 2013 #5

Bush should have gone to jail.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #7

Meh. This has not been a good day for suggesting civilized behavior. Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #8

Don't forget to invade Iran before you go to bed. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #9

His entire eight years was one long boo from him and his lackeys.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2013 #23

The goodbye song - A lot of anger released there. freshwest Jan 2013 #4

I have several unopened decks of those cards. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #6

Criminals all judesedit Jan 2013 #10

And Cheney looked just like Mr. Potter in IAWL, complete with wheelchair, cane, catbyte Jan 2013 #11

I'm torn on this video. Jamaal510 Jan 2013 #12

Total silence as he came out would've been far more devastating for him, IMO. Drunken Irishman Jan 2013 #13

I'm glad he got to hear all those people booing... xtraxritical Jan 2013 #14

I was there, and I booed, too Adenoid_Hynkel Jan 2013 #15

Leave it to MSNBC to remind us that booing Shrub was "bad form." KansDem Jan 2013 #16

MSNBC? Working for Bush??? Did I read you right? maddiemom Jan 2013 #19

Five years earlier MSNBC had Bush's back... KansDem Jan 2013 #20

Thanks for taking the time for a detailed explanation (with reference) of your point. maddiemom Jan 2013 #24

I remember Obama walking his ass out the door to the helicopter underpants Jan 2013 #17

not bad form rachel! heaven05 Jan 2013 #18

The Bush monkey was Cheney's and the oil industry's puppet. xtraxritical Jan 2013 #21

Lest We EVER Forget! triplepoint Jan 2013 #22