Camp Photo
Posted on 12/25/2009 10:47:14 AM PST by kingattax
Looking back at the aughts, who can forget indelible images of a war and a president that should never have been, and the makeshift camp set up outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch at Crawford Texas that challenged them both.
For those feeling nostalgic about the past decade, fret not: It's apparently not going away.
Energizer Bunny war protester Cindy Sheehan, who last year ran for Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco congressional seat, plans to set up a new anti-war camp near the Washington Monument to protest ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"It's true," Sheehan said in an e-mail, adding that she couldn't discuss her plans until after our deadline. .
In 2005, during George W. Bush's five week vacation at Prarie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, Sheehan pitched a tent by the side of the road near the ranch's entrance demanding an audience with the president at which she would ask questions about the Iraq war, where her son Casey was killed.
She then rode a wave of fame to become the country's most prominent war protester. In 2008 Sheehan campaigned to unseat Nancy Pelosi. The House of Representatives Speaker had not moved to impeach President Bush, Sheehan said.
Now she's announced she will establish a Washington D.C. based tent village like the one she built at Crawford.
Angered by President Barack Obama's war-justifying Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Sheehan said she will re-establish Camp Casey near the Washington Monument, setting up tents, and demanding that her anti-war message be heard.
"At first I believed that the Republicans were the war party, but it became increasingly clear to me that it doesn't matter what party a president is -- the policies of war continue on," Sheehan told the Fort Worth Star Telegram, for a Dec. 20 story. "He should devise a plan for troop withdrawal that is as speedy as safely possible and combine economic growth and democracy building in our occupied countries with a speedy withdrawal. No occupations will save billions of dollars a month and maybe our economy could start to improve, too."
Her timing is perfect. With any luck, in light of the current outbreak of 24 inches of “White Granular Global Warming,” she will have severe frostbite by SOTU!
Camp Photo
Can she actually go out in the cold wearing her teeshirt?
Not a pretty visual.
Cindy who???
Her timing is perfect. With any luck, in light of the current outbreak of 24 inches of “White Granular Global Warming,” she will have severe frostbite by SOTU!
She’ll stay warm in the local motel while attending a couple of news conferences or photo opts each day.
And the media will give this lots of coverage. Or not...
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Ummmmm...........where is the constant media coverage of this twit ?
Remember the old Democrat who tried to shoot up the Holocaust Museum? He's not alone ~ Secret Service has a list several hundred thousand "suspects" just like that.
They show up in DC all the time. For the most part they are peaceful since they know they're being watched but sometimes one of them will get out of sorts and try to hit what he or she believes to be a "soft target".
Poor Cindy ~ she's definitely a "soft target". There can be no doubt she will very quickly find out why this is not a good idea around DC.
I wonder why the code pinkos don't do that?
Is Soros funding her?
Is Cindy still hanging out with Lou Rockwell?
Obama wins that award 1,000 times more than Bush ever did.
I’ve often wondered who pays her bills, how she apparently doesn’t have to work for a living, etc.
She’s a nutcase. I remember she went to New Orleans after Katrina, and was fearful of our Marines. She said she was afraid of getting shot because of all our military men and women in New Orleans. Some liberal/radical types will never be happy, no matter what happens.
She’s crazy. I heard several times especially regarding Bush; she was being supported by Soros.
SF Weakly seems to be looking at the current administration.
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