Posted on 08/13/2005 2:59:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Very much agreed. Too bad she doesn't honor his sacrifice. And yes, I feel deeply for her loss, and can only imagine it.
However, plenty of other American mothers have experienced the same and they do HONOR their sons and daughters for the sacrifice. They don't spit on it the way Ms. Shehan is doing. How sad.
Good rant!
He was being kind...she is an attention seeker...using her own son's combat death to promote 'Cindy'...
In my own experience I have seen a number of mom's who seemed to revel in the troubles their families get into..many times they are the driving force of that trouble and are able then to market it to friends, neighbors, the community to feel sorry for them or to make provisions for them in one way or another..
Cindy has been able to parlay her sons death into a really big 'Look at Me" adventure..
The left naturally uses any and all they can...the same way John Kerry used disgruntled combat vets of his day to promote himself..the anti war agenda is simply a vehicle to promote anyone who latches on for the ride..Marxists,Muslims,Greenies,PETAS,any one with dot com group looking for funds..
They all wave a pretty flag...but the are ALL every man jack of them..about the Green Party...the REAL Green Party...
The US Dollar...
imo imo
Europe is in grave danger, but there is cause for hope: the British reaction to the London bombings is heartening; and France and Germany seem poised to elect conservative governments at their next elections.
Sheehan is a fraud and a fake.
I have no sympathy for her loss anymore.
She is mugging for the cameras and every shot is posed.
What the left always forgets is that MCCARTHY WAS RIGHT!
Sheehan has earned our contempt.
One thing that Sheenan and her posse haven't given much thought to is that while our culture pretty much gives a lot of sympathy and leeway to sympathetic people, protracted 'woe is me' acts tend to wear very thin, very quickly.
Mrs. Holloway-Twitty is a recent example. Basically a sympathetic person caught in a sympathetic situation, in just about two months she went from poster-mom to pest & nuisence that people have grown tired of. That's not to say her situation is any less sympathetic: it's just that she has become less sympathetic.
That's so true.
I guess he's been reading the site and just had to give us honorable mention.
LOL
Sheenan's 'woe is me' act is much more pronounced than Mrs H-T's. She seems to have that perpetual droopy face that's only really seen on the clinically depressed, or the insane.
That's why I say she has cracked - I doubt she even knows what she is saying anymore, except she enjoys being goaded on by her new friends.
This won't end very well. I see a full blown breakdown in her future.
They have a lot of hard work ahead to come out of socialism. And we have a lot of hard work to keep from that path.
Don't worry. People in the news do things that make me furious, but I try my best to tone down my rhetoric when discussing them. I did fall into that trap once or even several times, and will make every effort not to do so again, even though I loathe that (now) very public person and those connected to that person and a few others.
There are lines I just do not like to cross, especially on a public forum. I probably shouldn't even post on this forum because I'm not hateful enough when I'm with the general concensus. Then I end up getting trashed. Sometimes I dissent for one reason or another. Then I end up getting trashed.
I talk to people on the right and on the left. The minute the trashing and name-calling starts, the dialogue is poisoned and it's over for both parties. If civility can be maintained, sometimes you can find some common ground with people and respect them even though you don't agree with them.
Evermost in my mind lately is "As ye judge, so shall ye be judged." That includes what we say about other people even if we hide behind a screen name. The big guy knows who and where we are and is taking notes.
I STRONGLY favor the former policy of keeping the processing of remains private until the family takes custody. Then the family can decide how much it values dignity, and how much it values publicity. If a family wants to invite the press to take pictures of their dead child's casket (or body, for that matter), let'em. But don't impose that choice on some other family.
EMAIL :
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 1:00 PM ET
Subject: "This country is not worth dying for." -- Cindy Sheehan
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"This country is not worth dying for."
-- Cindy Sheehan
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PLEASE FORWARD THIS ON ASAP!
- good - accurate links & honest sources -
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FReeper Phil Dragoo - from NM - emailed me a Font Page Mag article
linking Cindy Sheehan to convicted NYC defense attorney for Al Qaeda - Lynn Stewart & convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Cindy Sheehan's husband has left her over her anti-American activities - and all of her family has joined in a letter decrying her activities and comments to the media.
Cindy Sheenan told MSNBC TV host Keith Obermann that she prefers that President GW Bush does not meet or talk with her now - as she feels it would ruin her Crawford, Texas showboating.......
!!!!!
Here's the live exchange on MSNBC :
KEITH OLBERMANN: "The nature of the media coverage you're getting
now, the response from other families of soldiers killed in Iraq, all of that, from the perspective of your protest there, in a way, isn't it
really better if President Bush doesn't meet with you?"
CINDY SHEEHAN: "I would think so, yes. I think it's great.
-- And if he would come out right now, it would really defuse the
momentum, and I don't want to give them any hints. --
And I think that's something they've probably already thought about.
But, you know, but we're here. We're committed. We're staying the
whole month of August, and then we're moving to Washington, D.C.
And we're going to have a 24-hour vigil on his front lawn to keep the pressure on.
The pressure is there. Sixty-two percent of Americans want our troops home. And this is giving them a voice to stand up and be counted and say, You know, we want our country back, and we want our troops home."
?????
"....diffuse the momentum?"
?????
So, it was really never about a "second meeting", right?
Never really about grief, correct?
There are more families out there
that have lost loved ones, and they do not share the leftist, "antiwar" politics of communists like Michael Moore, Medea Benjamin and Code Pink and communist fronts like the Fenton Communications, Tides Foundation, and George Soros, etc.
They also don't have the luxury to camp out for an entire month in Texas because most of them do something that the majority of professional protesters never do: They work.
They hold down jobs.
Copied & saved- that is very damaging.
You've nailed it!
Very good insight.
Thank you!
A great post. Leftism dooms itself with the blasphemous fatuity that "We can perfect ourselves!" "No absolute right and wrong!" Pride is the ultimate sin...
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