Who booed Obama at the All-Star game?

[pstokely]

Cubs Fans? Was this guy at the game?

[vadawg]

1. sports fans would boo jesus himself if he was a fan of a rival team

i think if you are a fan who attends games then you know that loyalty to your team takes precedence when in your stadium and you will boo even the baby jeesus if hes wrapped in the wrong colours.

[Skittles]

2. I believe it was Cubs fans

[DrDan]

3. Mo - its a swing state - as well as the Cubs fans

[taterguy]

4. People concerned about indefinite detentions and civil liberties

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. Well, that guy is apparently a Cardinals fan but

I'm sure there is no shortage of Freeps at any given baseball game.

[MadHound]

6. Oh whaaa! Obama got booed, big deal, move on, get over it

Geez, touchy group Obama supporters are. Hell every president gets booed at some point in their career. Get over it and move on.

[laureloak]

8. Your remark is unnecessarily nasty. Maybe you're on the

wrong site.

[MadHound]

9. LOL, sure sweetie, I've been on the wrong site for the past seven plus years

Whatever.

Sorry, but I don't get why people have felt the need to post these breathless threads, starting last night, that *gasp* the President was booed, why was he booed, who did the booing, was it St. Louis, was it his Sox jacket. Face the fact that for whatever reason, Obama was booed and move on. There's no need to treat it like it is something of major relevance, because it isn't.

[laureloak]

11. The OP asked a simple question. Your response was rude. n/t

[godai]

12. Why can't there be a civil discussion about an Obama event?

If you don't want to add to the discussion, move on but don't try to disrupt the discussion. This is not a big deal, so don't try to make it one. It's OK for us to discuss the All Star pre-game.

[MadHound]

24. Oh I'm so sorry that I was a buzzkill

Sorry that I'm not joining in on the mindless cheerleading, endless analysis of every piece of Obama minutia that comes along. But really now, between GD and GDP, there have been at least six thread hyperventilating about boo's at the game last night. Frankly, in the larger scope of things, the booing of a President is nothing.

One thread, even a couple, OK. But to endlessly obsess over this for twelve plus hours is ridiculous. Move on already, there are much more important things out there to obsess about.

And please, don't try to tell people what they can or can't, should or shouldn't post in a thread. That's the decision of the mods and admins, not you.

[godai]

25. So, as you originally suggested, why not 'move on'?

Apparently you want to put a stop to certain topics, in which you have no interest. As you wrote, "please, don't try to tell people what they can or can't, should or shouldn't post in a thread. That's the decision of the mods and admins, not you." Maybe take your own advice.

[MadHound]

29. No, actually I want to see the endless obsession of every minor little detail come to an end

We've got bigger fish to fry than who, what, when, where, how and why Obama was/was not booed at the All Star game.

But you were actually telling me to not "disrupt the discussion." What, endless, mindless obsession with Obama minutia is OK with you, but calling people out over this endless, mindless obsession is now "disruption?" Sorry, but as I said earlier, you don't get to make that call.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

18. Now see, I took this thread differently than you

I saw it as a joke thread as soon as I saw the photo of the Moran Guy.

[JonLP24]

26. FWIW

The cheers clearly drowned out the boos. I could hear them slightly but overall the cheers clearly drowned them out.

[MadHound]

32. That's the maddening part, Obama got a fine, warm welcome to the game

Yes, there were a smattering of boo's, but damn, every president in the past thirty years gets those.

Yet geez Louise, we have a whole group of people and over a half dozen threads endlessly obsessing over those smattering of boo's for the last twelve plus hours. It just boggles my mind that people are that obsessed with Obama that they go on and on about this. Oh well.

[godai]

7. Seemed to be about 90% cheering to me.

I watched and it looked like there might have been some initial booing (small percentage), possibly since Obama had the White Sox jacket on. Later there was a lot of loud cheering.

Who heard booing?

[nyc 4 Biden]

10. I turned up the tv purposefully to judge the reaction...

...and I heard no booing, only cheers. St. Louis fans are known to be very cordial so I didn't expect anything different regardless of their politics.

[bigwillq]

15. There were some boos.

But it's really no big deal. Presidents get booed.

[JerseygirlCT]

20. I heard a little, but it was definitely out-done by some pretty loud

and enthusiastic cheering.

[bigwillq]

13. Almost every politician gets booed

when they make public appearances at sporting events. It's no big deal. People have every right to boo. That's their right.

There were a lot of cheers, though.

[AngryAmish]

14. In my experience, most Cardinals fans are giant crackers

It does not surprise me at all.

[Red State Rebel]

16. Nice broad brush you have there....

St. Louis is a big baseball town and no, we are not all crackers and yes, I consider that a racial slur. I think if the President was booed it was because he walked out onto the field in a Sox jacket in front of a stadium full of Cardinals fans. St. Louis is HEAVILY Democratic so it was not a political thing.

[AngryAmish]

19. Why was Mark Buerhle cheered when he was announced?

I know he is a local boy, but he was wearing the dreaded White Sox uniform. So the uniform must not be it.

As you must know living in St. Louis therabouts, many, many Cardinals fans are crackers. You may be the exception that proves the rule.

[Red State Rebel]

30. He's from here - duh!

I don't know where you get your "Cardinals fans are crackers" from, but you are wrong. Wait, are you a Cubs fan??? That could explain it :)

[Voltaire]

22. I went to a game in St. Louis in May this year

I only stayed overnight, but I LOVED it. Love the park and love the history imbedded in it. Busch Stadium is one of the best and you guys are baseball MAD. This Phillies fan appreciates it. I don't think for a minute that St. Louis is some hotbed of crackers against Obama. So the president got booed, I would have booed Bush, so its even.

I booed Reagan in Baltimore 1983 Opening Day; that's before it was even cool to boo him.

[Red State Rebel]

27. Glad you enjoyed your stay!

I love the stadium also - St. Louis is a great city in spite of some of the negative news coverage we get.

[KatyMan]

23. yeah but Cardinal fans aren't the brightest bulbs..

neither are Cub fans for that matter.

I'm kidding!

:):evilgrin:

[Red State Rebel]

28. Pfffffttttt! But I agree with you about the Cubs fans!

[KatyMan]

31. Thought you might :)

Given your avatar...

:thumbsup:

[pstokely]

35. It does have Red suburbs

Isn't that birther Cynthia Davis from St Charles?

[MadHound]

33. I'm a Cards fan, have been since I was a kid,

Are you going to call me a cracker? Do you think that I'm a cracker, my family are crackers, my friends are crackers?

Frankly I think that you are painting with a huge broad brush, deliberately insulting a number of people on this board, and frankly need to apologize. But somehow I doubt that's going to happen because hey, that's just the way you are.

[AngryAmish]

34. I agree with you, somewhere, there may be St Louis fans who are not crackers

Yet my personal experience tells me otherwise.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. It was coming mostly from the luxury boxes. n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

21. LOL! - n\t

[ColbertWatcher]

36. One of the Palin kids? n/t