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Originally posted by loco12
Just watched a clip of Bush's speach yesterday and at the end the whole audience stands and applauds the guy in unison!
What the fuck? If 60% are against the guy surely a few of the audience would just sit there and not clap him, or at least heckle or boo the guy?
If it was Blair doing the same type of thing he would get some shit from the crowd he was talking to, or at least a few boos when he had finished his speech.
I have noticed this every time Bush does anything. The crowd rise en masse to cheer him. No boos, heckling, nothing, even in the USA parliament. For the land of the free, the desenters seems to be remarkably quiet. Is it against the democratic rules of the US to give your leader a hard time?
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1. There is no "USA Parliament". We have the House and the Senate (aka Congress), which (to the best of my knowlege) is governed by Roberts Rules of Order, under which booing, heckling, or otherwise showing disrespect - of ANY speaker - would not be accepted.
2. Many of the President's photo ops are going to occur at fundraisers and other sympathetic events. It's not often (ever?) an incumbent is going to choose to face hardcore opponents. Their time is best spent on middle-leaning, soft voters who can be swayed.