Stay classy, Boy's Staters

[carlfense]

But he tripped over his tongue, he said, and referred to the “shooting of Obama” instead of the shooting of Osama.

Members of the audience laughed. There was “a smattering” of applause, Spray said.

 

. . . His rival, Powers, doesn't dispute that it was a slip of the tongue, but he said the statement drew more than a “smattering” of applause. Powers said the room was dominated by Republicans, and he estimated that three-fourths of the audience clapped in response to Spray's words.

“It was just stunning,” Powers said. “They embarrassed the American Legion, they embarrassed their communities and they embarrassed themselves.”

 

He took the microphone and chided the young men for applauding the idea of shooting the president. He scolded them again during his closing remarks.

 

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130607/NEWS/706079946/1685#speaker-s-obama-instead-of-osama-slip-up-at-boys-state-drew-applause-laughter

[BigRedBuster]

Unfortunately, that is how some people on both sides express themselves in this country anymore.

 

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[NUance]

Yeah, the high school kids showed poor taste. Very poor. But really, isn't the article making mountains out of molehills?