Mary, what I reported so vaguely is just about how vaguely I read it in news reports about the booing. I really don't know any other details. What I was probably reacting to a bit in Julius's post is the other reports now characterizing the police and firemen at the event as "drunks" and "Irish drunks" who "listen to right-wing radio" even though it was reported in their defense that they endorsed 43 Democrats and 4 Republicans in the last election. It's like they are being punished now for booing her. The reports I read about her remarks, which were either vague or I don't recall the details, were speculating the police were booing her because she had made these remarks about them in the past.
>My hunch is that, if she made the first of the remarks attributed to >her, she may have been discussing the case of Amadou Diallo, the >unarmed, 22-year-old West African who was shot 41 times by four white >police officers. The officers were eventually exonerated, but it was >not at all certain that they would be, and the verdict remains >controversial. That may well be it, and sounds like it is related to what Julius mentioned. >But this illustrates why the burden of proof for "Clinton stories," at >least for me, is especially high. I wasn't trying to pass on unsubstantiated Clinton stories, just what I read where people were speculating why the police booed her. Like I said, it made me uncomfortable when she and others, including the Fire Chief himself (!) were booed, but I also thought it unnecessary and wrong to strike back at them as a group in the manner I described above. Geez. Some of them may have been rude, but it also made me queasy to see them putdown like that after all they've been through. Just MHO. Kakki
