Unlike in Cincinnati, where George W. Bush used a flank of Iraqi war veterans to keep the Reds' home-opening crowd from booing him out of Ohio (the next blue state), Vice President Dick (Duck!) Cheney attended RFK Stadium today to toss the Washington Nationals' home-opening first pitch. The crowd wasn't very welcoming, to say the least. More ------
To say the Veep was booed would be an understatement. Fox News and CNN both carried the first pitch LIVE - and the sellout crowd was loud and overwhelmingly anti-Cheney. He was booed ONTO the field, at the mound, as his pitch made it to the Nationals' catcher, and as he left the field. There's no room for debate. The guy was jeered off the field.