Posted on 05/26/2012 8:40:07 PM PDT by kristinn
It’s official: At least one famous person is coming to town during convention week not to party or politick, but to protest.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan e-told us last week that she’s planning to march in Charlotte’s streets and that her targets will include POTUS and his party.
“We are gathering together a coalition of people who won’t softball the Democrats,” she said. “If we want true change, our protests have to be non-partisan and based on policy, not perceptions.”
Sheehan’s son Casey was killed in 2004 while serving in Iraq. A year later, she made headlines by camping outside then- President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch, demanding a meeting to talk about that war.
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We also heard this story about Biden’s visit: While shaking hands in a rope line at the Levine Museum of the New South – the locale for his speech to supporters – a woman told him that her mother in Pennsylvania was a big Biden fan.
Give me her phone number, the VP said.
She did.
He called before he left town.
And got her voicemail.
But, our source says, the mother did end up saving a nice election-year memento – Joe Biden’s message on her answering machine.
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Hello CB:
I hope you are enjoying this important Memorial Day weekend.
Times are tough for me right now, but it will get better. At least, I’ll never be like Cindy.
What a ...nevermind
Any bets Cindy will be wearing a tee shirt?
Is she still around?
How many years ago was it that we organized near Bush’s ranch as a protest against Sheehan who was, IIRC, living in a ditch across the road from his ranch?
Even JimRob came to Texas to join us!
Is she still lying on her son’s grave for photo ops?
I don’t agree with her politics, but Cindy Sheehan at least appears to have principles. She might be looking for relevance to Democrats the same way many conservatives are looking for relevance in moderate/centrist Mitt Romney’s campaign.
Showing support for the Muslim Brotherhood while in Egypt entailed “principles” . . . ?
and to think I have to be there. Good Grief. Might as well drag along the rest of the nuts. The left of the USA is doubling down on failure, and I for one want to eradicate this madness.
I don’t agree with her, but I respect her for sacrificing for what she believes. She was once a darling of the Democrat Party, but they threw her under the bus when she didn’t stop protesting the wars under the Obama administration.
She’s on the opposite end of the political spectrum from me, but she’s fighting for relevance much like we’re fighting against the moderate/centrist Republicans. Plus, she also sacrificed a son for this country. For those two reasons, I don’t disrespect her.
What does she believe, and who is she sacrificing? Support of the Muslim Brotherhood is an insult to both her son’s memory (as they are allies of those that took her son’s life) and those whose freedom is being taken away in Egypt. With all due respect to yourself (and even to her), siding with terrorists won’t gain any “relevance” for any cause, whatever she may represent. (And since the wars are ending, I don’t see how the Dems would have any reason to “throw her under the bus” now.) The “anti-war” folk in this country are not truly anti-war, since they don’t want to suppress the real warmongers in this world.
I knew ther’d be a zero connection to this Traitor.
Poor Cindy. The sad thing is, she really thought all that attention was all about peace.
I know that ows talked about protesting the Charlotte convention. I wonder if any North Carolinian freepers (and others) are planning a Tea Party welcoming of his excelency as well.
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