[familyofman]

Keep in mind the axiom - what goes round, comes round. If you feel it's fine & dandy to boo a former POTUS you don't like (maybe even applaud the booing) don't be so two-faced to complain when it happens to a former POTUS you happen to like & admire. Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

[Vaduz]

When did the clintons know of civility??

[Steel Eye]

Tell that to the tolerant, unprejudiced liberals who booed the Boy Scouts at the Democrat National Convention. Or the ones who spit on the honor guard at the New York State convention.

[cyncooper]

Keep in mind the axiom - what goes round, comes round. If you feel it's fine & dandy to boo a former POTUS you don't like (maybe even applaud the booing) don't be so two-faced to complain when it happens to a former POTUS you happen to like & admire. Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

Nonsense.

I think it is fine and dandy to boo someone who is as low as a person can be and sows seeds of hate and dissension wherever he goes. Lying about his tenure, and undermining the current administration at every opportunity.

If someone were to boo a POTUS, former or current, who is honorable, decent, kind and wise, then I will determine the booer is deserving of my scorn.

[Kevin Curry]

Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

Clinton himself killed it. Throughout his administration he, with the able assistance of Cruella de Hill(ary), divided and set people against one another with zeal and glee--turned it into an art form.

[miss marmelstein]

Oh please. As a New Yorker, I can tell you civility's been dead since El Morrocco closed. Glad that for once it was focused in the right direction.

[BSunday]

Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

Excellent way of putting it into perspective. I have often thought on people I like being booed or whatever, and thought, "Don't people have any manners anymore?"

[Sloth]

If we can't boo a rapist, who can we boo?

[7thson]

Perhaps. However, I would say that if President Bush in the future showed up at a country concert, there would not be too much booing. Example - Bush 41 got a rousing reception and cheers at a rodeo. Now, if Bush showed up at a rock concert - Pretenders let's say - I am sure he would get boo'd. However - another one - I believe that Bush 43 would have better sense to show up at such a concert. Clintoon does not the sense that God gave an idiot.

[NCLaw441]

Ah yes, but civility is earned.....

[PhiKapMom]

Civility is not dead! Clinton deserves every boo he gets and more -- in fact he deserves to be wearing orange for what he did to our military! Most RATs don't know the meaning of the word civility -- all they do is attack -- Kerry is the perfect example!!!!!!

[republicanwizard]

What's your point?

[Coop]

If you feel it's fine & dandy to boo a former POTUS you don't like (maybe even applaud the booing) don't be so two-faced to complain when it happens to a former POTUS you happen to like & admire. Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

Pssstt! Bill and Hillary were the pallbearers.

Bill Clinton's arrogance, vicious public attacks and complete contempt for the law and our military are what earn him boos, not his politics (which change at the drop of a hat). Find me another President with a myriad of lawsuits, who has been impeached, disbarred, & used the military multiple times to deflect attention from his public scandals, and then you can accurately use the "two-faced" description.

[MainFrame65]

"Keep in mind the axiom - what goes round, comes round. If you feel it's fine & dandy to boo a former POTUS you don't like (maybe even applaud the booing) don't be so two-faced to complain when it happens to a former POTUS you happen to like & admire. Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

This is true, but the scope is too limited. The incivility that elicited (and justified) this reaction was committed by Mr. Clinton, in the form of his unprecedented public criticism, second-guessing, and carping at his successor in office. Even Jimmy Carter, who also made a second career of unprincipled meddling in international relations and offering bad public advice, is a pale shadow of the malign Mr. Clinton.

Most presidents -- all but these two, within my memory -- have been gracious in retirement. Their public activities and pronouncements were directed to education and philanthropic causes with broad public approval, except for a limited role endorsing candidates in campaign season. These two seem determined to establish a new and highly distasteful tradition.

[Darnright]

>Keep in mind the axiom - what goes round, comes round. If you feel it's fine & dandy to boo a former POTUS you don't like (maybe even applaud the booing) don't be so two-faced to complain when it happens to a former POTUS you happen to like & admire. Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing."

Just today, the Roanoke (VA) "Slimes" presented its dwindling readers with a letter to the editor from some inbred halfwit, who referred to our present POTUS as "Dubya the Dumb". The letter railed on and on about the President's apparent lact of intellect, and the audacity of the Liberation of Iraq.

Now, why did the one citizen get tossed out on his ear for razzing the Impeached One, yet the 2nd citizen gets rewarded for insulting a fine President by having his rantings published in a city newspaper?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Civility is dead and I mourn its passing."

Ok, but also send that message to James Carville, Paul Begala, Hillary Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal, the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, The Dixie Chicks, Jane Fonda, Tom Daschle, Molly Ivins, Paul Krugman, and a few others.

[bvw]

You are most extremely confused about civiity. It's no help to be polite to a notoriously vile person. It is the boos that were civil -- the cheers that were rude. Do you cheer a rapist? Clap lustily for a man who publically demeans and harasses the small and weak? Smile pleasantly at a man who orders pet cats killed and hung on the owner's porch. If so, friend, you ARE rude and vile.

Civility is not so shallow! Men and women of competing interests and occassioned displeasures can and do live civilly with one another. But not if they pave the way for the vile, the thief, the liar, the corrupt by extending only happy-faced saccharine faux-politeness. By so doing the whole of the city, of the society, is taken down into the muck. Proper rebuke is a necessary part of true civility.

[MightyMouseToSaveThe Day]

Oh, come off your high horse. RESPECTABLE people don't get booed and jeered. Clinton earned every single one of those boos with his contemptible, impeachable behavior.

[Dan from Michigan]

Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

I don't. I prefer HONESTY.

[FITZ]

Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

Civility was killed under the Clintons. Can you imagine a grosser pig? And to think he was in the White House.

[Redleg Duke]

Very humorous! You do sound like a Clinton Rumpswab..not an adherent to Miss Manners.