The other day at a Republican presidential debate there was a brief soundbite video of an American soldier, who during his comments mentioned that he is gay. A couple of people in the audience booed him, and all of the republican candidates simply ignored the booing. None of them said anything about it.

Next thing you know, President Obama finds out about it, and condemns the GOP candidates for having remained silent, instead of condeming the bad behavior towards the soldier. Obama was quick to point out that he woud never, ever have done such a thing, he would have spoken up...

Gotta part company with the prez on this one. Sometimes, in fact oftentimes, the best way to deal with bad behavior is simply to ignore it, and often the attention seeker will vanish.