Posted on 05/28/2007 8:06:17 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
"Good Riddance Attention Whore." That wasn't some EVIL rightwinger telling Cindy Sheehan to get lost. That quote is from the title of Cindy Sheehan's own KOmmie THREAD resigning from the anti-war movement. It appears that Cindy feels betrayed by her own Democrats and probably has reached the limit on how much attention she can now get from the media. So let us now watch Cindy's resignation in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that Ms Sheehan still has a pal in Caracas, is in the [brackets]:
"Good Riddance Attention Whore"
[Self recognition is the first step to curing yourself. Pied Piper Pitt could take a cue from you, Cindy.]
I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.
[Nice shot there at the DUmmies. BTW, I would describe it as a "bolshevik blog."]
I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.
[George Soros not funding any more trips?]
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system?
[Hmmm... Methinks Democrat money was paying your freight until you turned on them.]
However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left", but "right and wrong."
[Welcome to Democrat hypocrisy.]
I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?
[Um, Cindy. You are deemed a radical because you have been buddying up to the likes of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.]
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others. I have spent every available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.
[You need to be committed? Welcome to the club. Most of the rest of the Left also need to be committed.]
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.
[Unfortunately we can't get Casey's input on this. Somehow I think he would disagree.]
I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.
[Such as Pied Piper Pitt's personal ego.]
Our brave young men and women in Iraq have been abandoned there indefinitely by their cowardly leaders who move them around like pawns on a chessboard of destruction and the people of Iraq have been doomed to death and fates worse than death by people worried more about elections than people. However, in five, ten, or fifteen years, our troops will come limping home in another abject defeat and ten or twenty years from then, our children’s children will be seeing their loved ones die for no reason, because their grandparents also bought into this corrupt system. George Bush will never be impeached because if the Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own graves and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.
[We are just $10 away from Chimpeachment.]
I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.
[Yeah. Being a mother to your other children definitely sounds like a plan.]
Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.
[I'll consider buying if you take care of the fire ant problem there.]
This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.
[That's FUnnie. I thought it was your Final Press Conference moment which happened 10 years after the Checkers moment.]
Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.
[Wow! She smears America on her graceless exit out the door.]
It’s up to you now.
[I can get George Soros money too? And now to hear from the NUtroots of KOmmieland...]
Cindy, you walk with Thoreau, Gandhi, King...
[...and Pitt.]
Come back to Hawaii for healing, Cindy
[I would love to do some healing in Maui.]
Let's do it! The Camp Casey Memorial ...a memorial for peace.
[You are just $10 away from a memorial.]
We could raise the funds online, and issue a request for proposals from sculptors and other artists and architects online, and vote online for the best concepts, and promote Camp Casey via e-mail blasts and blogs.
[Bev Harris could handle the fundraising.]
Takes a day to incorporate, set up a board of directors, and pass some by-laws. The IRS form 1023 is the real bear. About nine months for approval if all is accurate and complete. $500 fee. Can solicit funds once an organization is formed, just cannot hold the org out as tax deductible until receive IRS sign-off. Once approved, contributions are deductible retroactively to incorporation date but must file an amended return.
[Quicker than you can say "Bev Harris."]
The centerpiece of the memorial should be a giant 'dollar sign'.
[Sayeth a KOmmie with unintentional irony.]
Now most Americans are so busy trying to keep a roof over their head and bills paid, and are so paralyzed by the ongoing assault of lies over radio and tv, that many of us are too stricken to respond to every administration offense appropriately. As a consequence, I think post traumatic stress disorder runs through our society.
[Another name for that stress disorder is Bush Derangement Syndrome.]
The Democratic Party has lost its soul (if it ever had one). They are beholden to the same multinational corporatists and faithmongers as the Repubs. I don't believe that it is possible to change them from within.But just so that you all understand how pessimistic I am, I don't believe it is possible to change them from withour either. In other words...we're F*CKED!
[Speak for yourself, John Alden.]
I left Democratic Underground a few years ago. I would stay away from that board.
[Why do you look down on the DUmmies? After all KOmmies are nothing but DUmmies with better PR.]
I left there a long time ago, as the politics were much too divisive. I wouldn't take an attack there as a serious representation of a large number of Democrats.
[I disagree. The DUmmies DO represent a large number of Democrats.]
There are some people on DU with mod privileges who have an agenda. If you're on their good side, you can get away with murder, but if you piss one of them off, boom, you're gone. No warning, no explanation, just booted. They'll tell you that when they moderate, they give out multiple warnings, have multiple mods agree on a banning, and take care to be fair. That wasn't my experience.
[Sneak attack tombstoning.]
It makes my husband so angry. We marched with a Democratic group in a Memorial Day Parade...but we wanted to carry our own signs rather than "Turn DuPage Blue". The Dems didn't want us to carry "The Bush Legacy: Corruption, Deficit, Lies" , "Jail Scooter, Impeach Shooter", and "Fight Truth Decay, Vote Democratic" BECAUSE the signs were too POLITICAL!!!!
[They didn't want to be embarrassed by your totally inappropriate BDS on display for all to see.]
Maybe there can be a few showings of "Sicko" with the proceeds going to cover your medical care.
[That's the good news. The bad news is that your medical care will take place in Cuba.]
Clinton, Edwards, Biden, they all have blood on their hands. It's time for an alternative....
[Kookcinich?]
You held a protest in Sacremtno at the end of October 2006. This is literally right next to CD-04 where Charlie Brown was running to take out John Doolittle (the MOST corrupt member of congress). But it's a district that also thinks very little of you, Cindy. Your presence just a week before the election hurt Charlie Brown's chances. Given the clsoe election, you may very well have cost him the race because you were unable to correctly analyze the situation in terms of political reality. For THAT, I will NEVER forgive you. I know people called you and asked you not to come. I know you were asked to call off the protest, or at least wait until after the election. But you refused. The protest was more important to you than insuring the election of someone who really would have helped end this war. I know it affected the election because I heard plenty of people tell me so. Doolittle had been using you as a campaign attack point for a couple of months, and you showing up in Sacramento validated his attacks for many people who were at that time still undecided. So thank you Cindy, for helping to continue this war and for F*CKING OVER my home district for another 2 f*cking years.
[Cindy Sheehan pulled the football away from Charlie Brown's foot as he tried to kick it.]
Ending the war is paramount and only more democrats in congress and the white house is going to make that happen.
[That plan about more democrats in congress sure worked out great, huh?]
Passion is one thing, ill-informed melodrama is another. Ms Sheehan is no asset of the left. Whether it's meeting Chavez, the alleged comments about AIPAC, the nasty aggression towards students who booed her speech (calling them "warmongers"), the "evil empire" nonsense or the histrionics about Bush being a worse terrorist than Osama bin Laden - she's a perfect example of adolescent, screeching extremism that undermines the seriousness of the left.
[That screeching extremism IS the left.]
"If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." ~ Charles Bukowski
[And now we know the source of much of Pied Piper Pitt's nonsense when he mumbles into his beer at Bukowski's.]
Amazingly, the Drudge Report hyperlinks directly to Daily Kos for this article.
[Amazingly, the DUmmie FUnnies hyperlinks directly to Daily Kos for this article.]
I don’t think this is it for mother sheehan. She’ll be back. Cindy is like the BarbAra Streisand of the protest movement.
I think she was getting worried about her own usefullness. She wanted to be validated. I doubt she is going anywhere, she just wanted to read about how awesome everyone still thinks she is. Her ego is too big. She can’t be away from the fray for long. I really think this was just her way to show the ‘Rats how much everyone still loves her so they will still foot her bills.
I don’t think they will bite, though. These freak shows do not help their cause, and I truly believe they are starting to realize it. I think the bill submitted with no timeline is the first small step in showing these nutjobs (anti-war freaks) that they don’t weild as much power as they think they do.
That all, of course, is my own lowly opinion. But I belong to a few other fora, and this letter looks like a classic “flounce” to me. When someone gets mad and thinks not enough people pay attention to them, they cry, and they post hostile things, and they say “That’s it, I can’t stand this place anymore, I’m leaving for good.” Two days later, there they are posting like nothing happened.
It looks like the Shee-hag’s done been run over by the bus a few times already...
On another She-witch thread I remarked about how the DBM was going to spin this into “Bush’s Fault(TM)”. I’ve amended that prediction to one where she obliges them one more time as a useful tool in some sort of unholy “Repatriation Tour”. She’ll “forgive” them and there will be copious amounts of (crocodile) tears of joy all around.
And THEN they’ll kick her to the curb ;’}
Thats hysterical!
Isn’t Camp Casey different from the Crawford Peace House? For some reason I thought they were two different things. (But then being a Republican woman, I’ve never had an original thought so what do I know.)
Cindie
An open letter to Cindy Sheehan, from the administrator of Democratic Underground.
Cindie
They are two different properties (the Peace House is in town), but Cindy is on the board of the Crawford Peace House (according to the article). So she's tied into that money mismanagement situation, as well as trying to sell the other property out by GWB's ranch.
They pulled her funds.
Please clarify. This doesn't tell me anything.
Much more accurate.
I believe the real story that is not told is she lost her source of funds. She has been cut off. Cindy has been riding someones bank account and I will bet it is gone.
Oh, I thought you were referring to something specific about the Crawford Peace House or the site by Bush’s Ranch.
Yeah, it was likely Soros’ money involved; at least that’s my guess. Once she stepped off the reservation they cut her off. I understand, also, that her bills for last year’s medical expenses have gone to collection.
So, if she intends to ‘go back to her family’, then who’s going to begin picking up her tab next? Her ex-husband?
What happened, did someone give Cindy a puppy and she forgot to declare it on her taxes? Or is the twit just going with the Nixon reference hoping that no one will see how ignorant she is of the "Checkers Speech", especially since she wasn't born when it happened.
Well, I answered my own question: Taken from Sheehan Family Shocked that “Peace Mom” resigned: "Cherie, who was also Casey’s Godmother, believes Cindy will now try to reconcile with Pat [Cindy's ex-husband], even though their divorce is final."
“Oh yeah! Pat is a meal ticket. He's her fallback position,” Cherie said.
I just thought of something. She says she is going to care for her family. I don’t think so. She is nearly broke, friendless, etc. She is going back to have her family take care of HER.
A snuke up her sniz?
I swear I hadn’t read your post yet when I posted this same thing. Great minds think alike. LOL
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