[Cincinatus' Wife]

A Sheriff's deputy does his best to direct traffic near the roadside camp set up by Cindy Sheehan on the road leading to President Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. A grieving mother's anti-war protest entered its second week, gaining momentum and spurring counter rallies, as hundreds of people with conflicting opinions about the war in Iraq descended Saturday on a road leading to the Western White House. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462795/posts#27

***........It is far more likely that Ms. Sheehan has flip-flopped because she has either been unwittingly co-opted or has willingly aligned herself with some of the more virulent radical leftwing groups protesting the war. Ms. Sheehan posts her blog on both Michael Moore's website and at the website of Code Pink, the lovely leftists who sent $600,000 to the "insurgents" in Iraq and who protest every week outside Walter Reed hospital, in full view of the wounded soldiers recovering there.

Digging further, it has been discovered that Ms. Sheehan participated in a rally for Steve and Virginia Pearcy, the Sacramento couple that came under fire for hanging a U.S. soldier in effigy outside of their home. Ms. Sheehan also spoke at a rally at San Francisco State University, with the group "Students Against War". This rally was to honor Lynne Stewart, the radical lawyer whose most egregious client was Omar Abdul Rahman - the convicted bomber of the first WTC attacks.

During this rally, Ms. Sheehan stated, "Lynne is my human Atticus Finch. He did what he knew was right, but wasn't popular. That is what Lynne is doing." Sheehan further stated that, "we (Americans) have been killing people, we are responsible for death and destruction over the past 200 years." Sheehan further denoted George W. Bush as the "biggest terrorist" and ludicrously asserted that the United States was waging a "nuclear war" in Iraq. She further stated that Iraq is suffering under a "U.S. imposed sense of freedom and democracy". Yes, things must have been so much better under Saddam! Also at this rally, flyers entitled, "Should We Help the Iraqi Resistance?" were passed out. ..........***

[Jet Jaguar]

She has stated she is no longer interested in meeting with the President.

This is just about her now. (and the money she will make dishonoring her son)

[Echo Talon]

moving him away as he sobbed and his knees buckled.

Ain't no cryin' in protestin'... What are ya some kind of sissy?

[backhoe]

Code Pinko-- the Cindy Sheehan affair ( click the picture )

[Khurkris]

bump for reference

[Reform4Bush]

Okay, I've searched thru about a dozen Cindy Sheehan threads, thru several pages of each, and I still haven't come across it now that I am looking for it.

Could somebody PLEASE direct me to/post that disgusting picture of Cindy getting a foot massage at the 'Peace House'?

I'd like to share it with others. >:-)

[Hardastarboard]

``We're here to change the world.''

Cindy Sheehah

"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes".

PJ O'Rourke

[Neever]

Drudge has reported some of her latest off-the-wall comments. The Limbaugh approach is probably the best approach. "Just let 'em talk." If Sheehan starts spewing this ultra-left liberalism, conspiracy theories, and black helicopter stuff, the media will soon turn their attention elsewhere.

[kcvl]

"We're never going to let him have another vacation in peace again," said Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq last year.

[rang1995]

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Issues & Insights
Grief And Politics
Published on Monday, August 15, 2005

Protest: How much media attention does Cindy Sheehan deserve? Only as much as compassion requires, which at this point is none at all.

But of course, Sheehan is no ordinary grieving parent. She has stepped out of a private role — that of the mother of a son killed in Iraq — to very public (and willing) stardom in political theater. She's an actor now, and should be judged accordingly.

We say this not to minimize her grief. Every parent fears losing a child, and those who have been fortunate to avoid such tragedy can only imagine what Sheehan went through. At the same time, grief is something to be endured, not exploited.

Those who use it to push their agendas end up cheapening it. A mother's grief becomes just one more emotional lever to manipulate the media and the public. That's where compassion ends and cynicism properly starts.

At this writing, Sheehan was stationed outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, vowing either to get a one-on-one with Bush, to stay until the end of August or to get dragged away by the police. A few Angry Left stalwarts have joined her, and the media have swarmed over this little encampment as if it were the 1960s all over again. The Bush-haters can hardly hide their glee at finding a sympathetic front-woman.

"She is the kind of unexpected leader I've been writing about for years," exults Arianna Huffington.

In short, Sheehan's story is no longer about grief. It's just another agitprop show. Sheehan herself has gone off the rails in her public comments, accusing Bush of starting the Iraq War "to make his buddies rich" and saying that the Internet and its bloggers are the only things preventing America from becoming a "a fascist state."

She and those around her have become what one might call "perimeter people." They tend to be on the perimeter of politics and are often found just outside the president's security zone. They hold extreme views and make it their mission to get on camera and in the president's face.

They've been around at least since the 1980s, when homeless advocates turned part of Lafayette Park across from the White House into a shantytown. Usually they get brief notice and little else.

But not this time. Cindy Sheehan is prime-time material, despite her fringe politics, and we doubt if authentic sympathy for a mother's plight is the reason. More likely, she's on camera because she serves the needs of a press establishment that dislikes the president and wants to see him as made uncomfortable as possible.

If sympathy were still the order of the day, the media would be leaving Sheehan alone to work through her sorrow. They would not be subjecting her to public exposure and embarrassment, even if she seeks it.


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[MNJohnnie]

gaining momentum an


Only in the minds of the Hysteric Left and the Dinosaur Media. Surprised we haven't seen any "new media polling" that shows 128% of Americans want Bush to meet this wacko.

[Terriergal]

As about a dozen Bush supporters stood across the street holding signs, down from more than 250 who gathered there Saturday morning,

That's because the rest were probably at CHURCH.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I love the prez even more after reading his quotes above. Especially the "MY BEING" stuff( ``And part of my being is to be outside exercising.").. Ha! sounds like he has his own version of kumbyah that the liberal control freak feminazis don't know.

I think it starts off with: Talk to the hand Cindy- I am moving on and have a war to lead. This woman has asked far too much from a country that she has never supported,or even understood in the first place. He son fought and died for freedom and his own walking womb stalks the president and hails the terrorists who killed him. *sigh*