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01-21-2009, 07:17 PM
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That's exactly how it is. Obama has been made out to be a celebrity, not a President. Comments like "Obamastock" and, as one of my friends on myspace had as his status, "Do you smell what Barack is cooking", very much liken it to some kind of entertainment event. This is NOT entertaining. It's history. It's a new person in the office who will hopefully help us. I think something similar would have happened if Hilary had been the one in the spotlight. Although I'm not sure we'd see her face on a pair of thongs.
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and history can't be entertaining?
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01-21-2009, 07:23 PM
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and history can't be entertaining?
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It can be but it isn't required to be.
I consider most of this renewed interest in politics and the government to be fleeting and a fad. Remove the "fun" and newness of the election-inauguration, and the panic over the economy, and it's bad to the same old same old.
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01-21-2009, 08:37 PM
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More goodies that I would like to share with you all...
Went back thru my camera...I actually got some shots of the swearing in ceremony. Not the clearest shots in the world but hey, even a zoom lens has its limits...ENJOY!
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01-21-2009, 08:55 PM
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The pics are wonderful!!! You're so lucky. I wanted to go, but just didn't have the energy.
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01-21-2009, 10:37 PM
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It was colder than an icecube!  On an unrelated note, it makes me so grateful to be alive whenever I hear anyone use the President's full name. And, I love and appreciate that his middle name is Hussein for all the reasons that people seem to think it's not such a good name.
I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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01-21-2009, 10:44 PM
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I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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I wouldn't say it made me sad, but it did bother me that such disrespect was shown to him, being that he is a U.S. President. You don't have to respect the man, but at least respect the title and position that he is in.
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01-21-2009, 10:46 PM
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I wouldn't say it made me sad, but it did bother me that such disrespect was shown to him, being that he is a U.S. President. You don't have to respect the man, but at least respect the title and position that he is in.
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And that's exactly what we were saying on the previous page. The person shouldn't overshadow the process/position.
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01-21-2009, 10:44 PM
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I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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I thought that was sad. I mean, it's the Inauguration. I would have hoped that people would have shown him some respect.
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01-21-2009, 10:44 PM
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Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed?
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Yes.
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01-21-2009, 10:48 PM
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I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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I didn't know he was booed. I did hear Rick Warren get booed though.
Sometimes, despite the fact that I don't agree with Bush's politics, I still feel a bit of pity for him. Especially when things like that happen. I don't much care to see anyone booed in public. I think it is disrespectful, rude, and often hurtful. No need for all of that. I'm thankful that we have President Obama and that Bush is gone, but he was still a president and the office itself deserves respect.
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01-21-2009, 11:19 PM
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I didn't know he was booed. I did hear Rick Warren get booed though.
Sometimes, despite the fact that I don't agree with Bush's politics, I still feel a bit of pity for him. Especially when things like that happen. I don't much care to see anyone booed in public. I think it is disrespectful, rude, and often hurtful. No need for all of that. I'm thankful that we have President Obama and that Bush is gone, but he was still a president and the office itself deserves respect.
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2 million plus more world wide booed at a man who in many people's eyes disrespected the position.
That is what they booed at...NOT the position.
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01-22-2009, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
On an unrelated note, it makes me so grateful to be alive whenever I hear anyone use the President's full name. And, I love and appreciate that his middle name is Hussein for all the reasons that people seem to think it's not such a good name.
I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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I agree with the sentiment of your post. I think, at least in part, this election represented some maturation for the nation's electorate.
Regarding the Bush reaction, perhaps silence or indifference, rather than booing might have been a better course of action -- but that's America, it's a big, brawling, messy country and people for the most part, have the right of free expression. ...the Republic won't crumble over it.
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01-22-2009, 10:02 PM
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Regarding the Bush reaction, perhaps silence or indifference, rather than booing might have been a better course of action -- but that's America, it's a big, brawling, messy country and people for the most part, have the right of free expression. ...the Republic won't crumble over it.
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I think dead silence would have been much better. Can you imagine that?
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01-22-2009, 10:26 AM
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I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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Agreed.
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01-23-2009, 03:37 PM
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I was wondering about something and haven't seen it mentioned yet. Did anyone else find it sad that W was booed? Perhaps he deserved it, but it was still a classless move.
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I missed the booing but I defintely heard people singing " na, na, na, na, hey, hey, hey ..goodbye". I agree that wasn't the time or the place.
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