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As a college student attending the rally for Bill Clinton in Costa Mesa (“Orange County Voters Rally Around Clinton,” Oct. 23) I was appalled at what I heard and saw. My dismay was not at what Clinton related in his speech, but at the way audience members behaved before, during and after the event.
I saw, and The Times detailed, countless incidents of professional men and women engaged in rhythmic partisan chanting, “mature” adults seizing and destroying rival placards from each other, and “grown-ups” encouraging intolerance of different political affiliations.
I have attended many events within my own youth culture, events that many of these adults would label immature and even obscene, and I have never witnessed the shameful acts of prejudice displayed last Thursday. Are these the methods by which we choose our President?
ED SIDAWI
Costa Mesa
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