WingsOfDesire
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Thanks for implying that boy scouts don't have a clue about what's going on in the world. I have as much respect for you now as for bobo himself.
You know how many kids were at this event? 45,000. You want to tell me that more than 22,500 knew enough politics to be genuinely upset about it? I doubt if even 5% of them knew Obama was going to be on the View. My implications were simply that if you put 45,000 boys wearing the same uniform together in one place, and you get a handful to start booing, then it can escalate quickly. I'm not saying they're stupid, far from it, they're probably smarter than the average kid. I used to be a Cub Scout myself. All I'm saying is that the majority of them got caught up in the moment.
I went to a Durham Bulls baseball game a few nights ago, and watched two kids near me that were able to get the entire stadium to do the wave a few times around. It doesn't take much to get a group of people to do something.
Obama's not the first president to miss the event, and probably won't be the last. The "outrage" is hilarious.
The last three presidents have made it to at least one, and Obama was indeed the first one to miss the 100th, so maybe the outrage, while overblown, is mostly genuine.