Protocol or don’t like him at all?

Maybe Ben Howe is right, and it’s just simply protocol that the military men and women assembled for some speech or another that Obama gave were dead silent until given permission to applaud:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_f9iVHt6w4[/youtube]

Or maybe they just don’t like him very much:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw[/youtube]

Could be both, of course.