"It is the boos that were civil -- the cheers that were rude. "
A very interesting point of view, and argument. No, I don't smile pleasantly at anyone who would kill cats and hang them from the front porch. I have seen a marked decline in the overall population of what I & family consider to be "proper" behaivior. Blame it on Rock & Roll, breakdown of the family, bad ju-ju...but, people just aren't as nice to one another as they used to be.
As I said earlier - I must be a Precambrian-con, or just plain old fashioned - but society is much to coarse in a lot of respects these days.
When you see Clinton -- picture Kate Wiley's cat hanging, dead, hanging from her porch. If you meet him, picture him wiping off his sunglasses, leaving Mrs. Broaddrick, raped, bloody lipped on a motel room bed by her State's Attorney General (Clinton), with him saying as casual as Friday "Put some ice on it, baby."
That will help you do the right thing, the polite thing, the well-mannered thing, the very civil thing!
And if that is to cheer him, to shake hands with him, to display any happy face, and affability towards him ... why you'd be a calloused rude cad for so doing. Be a man and show him his due.