Posted on 08/26/2005 7:54:41 AM PDT by BJClinton
Sigmund Freud had a concept he called “projection, which has been defined as a defense where the ego deals with unacceptable impulses and/or terrifying anxieties by attributing them to someone in the external world.
In many ways I think that explains the behavior of the media’s current patron saint, Cindy Sheehan, whose hate rhetoric aimed at President Bush is really meant for someone else who she can’t admit even to herself is her real target. To do so would represent one of those “unacceptable impulses” Dr. Freud was talking about.
In this case it could well be that Cindy Sheehan is projecting her rage at George Bush when the one she really despises is her late son Casey, who died as a hero in Iraq, precisely because he did die a hero in Iraq.
The more I listen to Cindy Sheehan and consider her past actions and her past words, it occurs to me she has always been a liberal, she’s always been anti-military, and she’s always been anti-Republican. It appears that she raised Casey in such an environment, yet despite that what does he do? He not only joins the military engaged in a war she bitterly opposes, but to add insult to injury when his enlistment runs out, he re-enlists although he knew that by so doing it meant he would be sent to Iraq where a war his mother despises is being fought.
Think about that. What Casey did was to reject not by words but by deeds his mother’s most closely-held beliefs.
Then, to make matter worse in her eyes, this son volunteers to go on a dangerous mission even his superiors warned him against, and dies as a result. Casey Sheehan's sergeant asked for volunteers. Sheehan had just returned from Mass. After Sheehan volunteered once, the sergeant asked Sheehan again if he wanted to go on the mission. According to many reports (and according to his own mother) Casey responded, "Where my chief goes, I go."
He went, and it cost him his life. You can almost hear her saying to his spirit, “How dare you spurn me and turn your back on me? How dare you go join the military, and then how dare you volunteer to fight against the innocent Iraqi freedom fighters and get yourself killed?”
Casey Sheehan’s heroic action has embittered Cindy Sheehan. And her actions have embittered her family who bitterly resent her exploitation of her son’s heroic death in behalf of her political extremism. Here’s what they wrote to Matt Drudge:
“The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her son’s good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our president, silently, with prayer and respect.”
Cindy Sheehan says she wants to ask the president, “Why did you kill my son?” She knows that George Bush did not kill her son. The butchers she supports with her far-out liberal activism killed Casey Sheehan and that activism is now resulting in the deaths of other young Americans because she is giving aid and comfort to our enemies and encouraging them to persist in their terrorism, giving them hope that if her views prevail the U.S. will lose its will and pull out. And so the fight goes on, and more Casey Sheehans die as a result.
And she says of her son, "He died for oil. He died to make your friends," Bush’s friends, "richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East."
How dare he?
Cindy Sheehan doesn’t need to talk to the president. A talk with a therapist would be more appropriate.
ping-worthy?
Who Does Cindy Sheehan Hate?
HERSELF
OUTSTANDING!!! BTTT!
BUMP!
Every thing.
This is what I have suspected all along. Like you said, NAILED IT!
Michael Reagan continues to impress. Just an excellent, to the point article.
She hates herself - realizing she was the one who drove her son away - drove her family away - drove her husband away.
Nobody wants anything to do with her rants that apparently she has been prone to all her life.
Typical of America now -- she is the epitome of the "ME! ME! ME!" generation
It can be argued that Cindy hates her son Casey. If hate is too strong the perhaps extremely angry is a better descriptive.
Cindy is extremely angry with her son Casey. He disregarded her radical leftwing pacifist rants and joined the Army. He chose to make his will to be a good American soldier superior to her antiAmerica, Antiwar will.
Now he is dead and she can do nothing but rant about it all being someone else's fault. A mother's failure to direct him along the pacifist path, the guilt for the failure and then the guilt for the death are unbearable.
Her only recourse is to like a three yearold, have a public tantrum. The tantrum is loved by the MSM and is being widely disseminated.
There is no grief at Camp Casey, there is only bitter unresolveable anger.
ping
DITTO! DITTO!
What is that byline all about?
Wow, someone else thinks this is the case!
Exactly.
But when all is said and done, and when this media circus has left town with the carnival from "Something Wicked This Way Comes", she'll be left with the ashes of her own deceptions. And this is why I keep her in my prayers.
And why I've suggested she may well become the most despised "American" "person" in future history tellings, of the WOT.
Her enablers know this, and they'll skulk away and do what they do, putting her in front of them to carry this weight, while they, had taken every advantage of her "choice" to join them in their anti-American politicking.
She's going to have to live with those nasty doubts about betraying and dishonoring her son's memory for the rest of her life. She's going to continue to be "petted" into being the left's media puppet, and more than likely she'll go along with that and because it keeps her from facing very obvious truths, IMHO.
It keeps her running away from herself, while she spews the false bravado of "truth", "independent voice", and the rest of it all. These too, will weigh her soul.
I always felt lefties like her found it easier to blame Bush, Republicans and our military because they were easier to reach than the terrorists and they wouldn't have to worry about a suicide bomber retaliating. But Mr. Reagan I think really hit the key point. She is mad as hell at Casey but has to direct her vitriol at Bush because of the conflict between her liberal and motherly instincts.
Wow. This is the FIRST time I actually saw a story about Casey Sheehan since the Cindy ordeal started. The thought of how the MSM is handling the story of this hero brings me to tears.
God Bless Our Brave Troops!
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