A Different Version of a Military Family Meeting with President Bush-Vanity

n/a | 8/8/2005 | Armymarinemom

[cake_crumb]

"Veterans for Peace hunts families to exploit."

They learned this successful tactic from the VVAW. No matter that people who allow their grief to be exploited are a vanishingly small number : they were in the 1970's, too, but the media makes them seem like a lot more.

[armymarinemom]

Mrs ladtx and I furious.

Us too. Most of us know better but the media goes with the nut case.

[toddlintown]

I recently flamed CODE PINK at their site and lo and behold, I'm on their mailing list. Just received this e-mail:

Dear CODEPINK activists in Aurora, Chicago, and the surrounding area,

Bush will be in Aurora, Illinois this Wednesday, 8/11, and CODEPINK would like to organize an emergency rally and vigil in solidarity with the Crawford vigil.

CODEPINK and Military Families Speak Out would like to have a presence everywhere Bush goes, and in order to do that we need a handful of volunteers to create a visual pink presence and field press calls after issuing a press release and organizing the vigil.

Please call on all the CODEPINKers in your area to help.

We know this is short notice but we just got the call to make it happen. Please contact Whitney at whit@codepinkalert.org or at 310.827.3046 (office) or 323.595.9169 to help coordinate an action!

Thanks so much,
Whitney and the CODEPINK staff

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Don't know what kind of participation they'll get, but be aware they're gonna be out there.

[CedarDave]

However, this woman has me steaming mad! She is denigating her son's sacrifice and nobility. She is helping our enemies her son fought. She is fueling the fires of our internal enemies also.

Thanks for your post and this thread. Going into work this morning, I caught the ABC News about the sucessful Space Shuttle landing. Right after that news of more bombs in Iraq and then a piece about the Sheenan woman's "vigil". I found my self yelling at the car radio and calling her unprintable names.Same on CNN last night. The MSM will stop at nothing to bash Bush and the war. And both them and her are pawns of the far left - hate America crowd.

[STARWISE]

armymarinemom: God Bless you for this personal revelation .. it's only more proof of what we already know: the President grieves for every family involved in this challenge. God Bless your family ...may our Lord protect them. Thank you for YOUR service and sacrifice.

Mystery, I understand the niggly ambivalence, but you are decent .. you have integrity, wisdom and are mentally stable. God forbid anything that grave would happen to one of your military guys, you would NEVER ... could NEVER sink to such despicable depths.

[STARWISE]

I think I'll email this thread to old Whit!

[Grampa Dave]

Thank you.

God bless your, your family, your son and our president.

[FourtySeven]

Bump!

[George Smiley]

Shame on our press.

Your restraint is admirable. I'd phrase it more strongly, as the omission of such things is deliberate.

[STARWISE]

I just sent this thread to her ...it's a symbiotic thing: they're using Ms. Sheehan and feeding her martyrdom tendency and she's using them.

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks for your testimony. I know someone who met the President and while I'm not at liberty to disclose the details, let me just say that it was consistent with the story you tell.

[toddlintown]

"they're using Ms. Sheehan and feeding her martyrdom tendency and she's using them..."

Exactly. I found it of interest since it's in my neck of the woods, and might stop by to watch the moonbats in action.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[STARWISE]

FREEP 'EM !! Get a group together .. let them know there are people who aren't swallowing their venomous kool aid. Call your local American Legion and VFW posts for support and bodies.

[SuziQ]

President didn't deserve for one distorted view to be splashed all over the media when he has spent so much time supporting families. Shame on our press.

Shame on them, is right. It is their agenda to do anything they can to try to bring the President down in the eyes of the people who listen to or read the mainstream media and press. Thankfully, people now have alternatives to the brainwashing of the major media with FoxNews and the Internet, which includes FR and blogs like PowerLine.

[The_Victor]

Bump for later.

This thread looks like one for many returns.

Thanks, armymarinemom!

[Mr. Silverback]

Great post. Your boys are heroes proved.

[BushisTheMan]

Even that mother in Crawford said nice kind words about Presdient Bush RIGHT AFTER it happened. My, how her tune has changed since she's joined the left wing socialist groups.

She's a nut case and I'm sure her son is looking down from heaven asking himself what happened to his mom.

[rwfromkansas]

She claimed in an interview she was not involved in politics before this. I have heard Freepers allege otherwise though but haven't seen much proof yet.

Her husband, who Cindy says supported her in May, now is against her activism, and the couple is separated. I wonder why.

[GoBucks2002]

I read a wonderful post somewhere about how President Bush, as he travels, frequently meets with families of the fallen with no publicity, away from cameras, and complete disregard for his schedule.

He has done that several times with the family of the only solider designated as missing: Sgt. Matt Maupin of Batavia, Ohio.