Reply #58: From where I sat no one booed or sang....... [View All]

[demgurl]

we could hear all the singing from the Mall, I believe. I refused to stand. When Bush respects the office he deserves respect. When he trampled our laws he does not deserve any respect. Lots of people, in my area, rose for the occasion but the lady I sat next to said, "I'm with you, I'm sitting."

I felt most of the people standing were giving into peer pressure. A few stood and I heard murmurs of 'respect the office'. I said, as loudly as I could, that he tortured people and wiretapped us and then lied to us so he did not deserve our respect. A few more stood and finally it looked like most of the people had risen from their chairs.

The one thing I did notice is I did not hear a single person clap or cheer. NO ONE!

The people who did stand did so for the office and NOT Bush.