Do You Think Booing Is Appropriate at a Political Event?

Can you imagine a group called the NAAWP? Wouldn't it be fair? Or how about The United Caucasian College Fund? Or the "WHITE" Panthers? How about NAWHOOD? or maybe
National Association of White Journalists? NWCC? NCWW? NSWE? UWCF? AAWE? The list goes on and on. I believe blacks think Obama has helped their groups, but let me tell you, HE HASN'T & WON'T!

So I guess you have a problem with the website Blacks for Obama.

But be careful with questions like that you may be labeled as a racist. ;-)

Both sides are guilty of this and it's rude when anyone does it.

Disrespectful, no matter who is speaking, what they are, or what they are doing. If you don't like it...leave. Have some respect.

He may have got booed.....but he also got several standing ovations on a few of the items he said. SH....selective listening huh?

I would not do it. I would show my approval by applause and my lack of approval by not applauding. However, is not unusual for some people, especially politicians to strike a nerve which leads one to doing something they probably never planned to do.

And then you have the hecklers that do it for their agenda. That's always inappropriate, although used for crafty soundbites against opponents.

Hell yes Romney and NObama should not only be booed off the stage but have tomatoes preferably as rotten as they are thrown at them. :D

Freedom of speech... Oh well Mittens

You should hope Romney loses.

I'm repeating your nonsense....

Not even close Einstein... You never say anything worth listening/reading, I was hoping you'd go away...

Blocking you would mean I care.. I don't, so there's no point...
You project a alot...

Oh and one last thought concerning ANYTHING you've EVER written to me:


I don't care....

Oh pray tell, red horse...what do you know? :)

Why not? We cheer ballplayers who kill dogs for sport. This is America today. So light up a crackpipe and get with the program

lol!

OR, as they say in DC....Throw another rock on the Barry.
Cheers, dawg!

All politicians should be booed - all the way back to private life. Damned thieves.

It conveys a message that might otherwise not be heard to the person being booed. It is an expression of free speech.

Why not? Let your feelings be known!

but only if the thing said is offensive or stupid.

why not? But Romney can't be surprised that he was booed. 5 letters for ya, NAACP....At least he has the balls to speak to his opposition. Unlike obama who childishly slams anyone who may not agree with him and takes pride in further dividing this country..

I think that I believe in and support the first amendment.

Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. Now had someone actually thrown something at him, I'd say that overstepped the boundaries of good taste.

And its also not OK to hell out "you lie" when the President is giving his SOTU speech so I guess the Cons. don't have much room to bitch other then they're just showing what hypocrites they are..

Having free speech as a guide I would say that a boo is a statement.

However, I would be against people drowning out a speaker. This is why I think Citizens United is a bad precedent.

To me the idea of free speech is that those that have something to say can both say it and be heard as well. We don't have to agree but we can work to be civilized.

It's befitting of the sort of folks who associate with racist organizations.

David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White,” which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.

“Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective,” Barton said in his book. “Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings.”

Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism.

“Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party,” Barton writes in his book. “In fact, a 13-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.

And in the 20th century, the KKK switched to the Republicans.

As a matter of fact, the record shows that since 1933 Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats.

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.

Things changed after 1948 when Strom Thurmond ran as a Dixiecrat, trying unsuccessfully to have Truman defeated by Dewey, and Thurmond - a staunch seregationist, except in his private life - later switched to the party formerly known as the GOP, and today the "Solid South" has become a Republican stronghold.

BTW, do you remember the amendments that Nixon tried to introduce when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was renewed in 1970?
And have you ever heard about Agnew's (and Nixon's) "Southern Strategy"?

If politicians have a problem being in the presence of people who are not afraid to offer their honest opinion, they should not be politicians.

I'm sure Romney was well aware of what he was getting into and chose to speak there b/c he wants to speak to all Americans, not just those who worship him.

There's freedom of speech and there is inappropriate behavior. Inviting a speaker you know you would disagree with, then booing him falls in the latter.