Posted on 08/15/2005 1:25:00 PM PDT by pabianice
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Time magazine reports that Cindy Sheehan's family is "imploding":
Sheehan lost her job at Napa County [Calif.] Health and Human Services because of all her absences, she says. Husband Pat, 52, couldn't bear having [fallen son] Casey's things at home and put most of them in storage. "We grieved in totally different ways," Cindy says. "He wanted to grieve by distracting himself. I wanted to immerse myself." . . . The couple separated in June.
Daughter Carly, 24, wrote a poem that begins, "Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?" Surviving son Andy, 21, supports his mother in principle but recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her "to come home because you need to support us at home," he says.
The New York Times reports that Mrs. Sheehan's politics were the cause of her marital collapse:
She said she and her husband separated a few months ago as a result of the war, and of her activism. Although she and her estranged husband are both Democrats, she said she is more liberal than he is, and now, more radicalized.
The Times doesn't elaborate on Mrs. Sheehan's description of herself as "radicalized." Through her own words, unreported by either Time or the Times, she makes clear that she has embraced a grotesque ideology that goes far beyond garden-variety Angry Left paranoia--though it includes plenty of that, as National Review's Byron York reported last week:
"This is something that can't be ignored," Sheehan said during a conference call with bloggers representing sites like democrats.com, codepink4peace.org, and crooksandliars.com. "They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state."
"Our government is run by one party, every level," Sheehan continued, "and the mainstream media is a propaganda tool for the government." Sheehan also called the 2004 presidential election "the election, quote-unquote, that happened in November."
Sheehan spoke at an April San Francisco State University rally in support of Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in February of providing material aid to terrorists. Here's an excerpt:
I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people . . . since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I'm going all over the country telling moms: "This country is not worth dying for." If we're attacked, we would all go out. We'd all take whatever we had. I'd take my rolling pin and I'd beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant. . . .
What they're saying, too, is like, it's okay for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons. It's okay for the United States to have nuclear weapons. It's okay for the countries that we say it's okay for. We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now. It's okay for them to have them, but Iran or Syria can't have them. It's okay for Israel to occupy Palestine, but it's--yeah--and it's okay for Iraq to occupy--I mean, for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it's not okay for Syria to be in Lebanon.
Earlier in April, at a speech before the United Methodist Church in Venice, Calif., Sheehan likened Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to "Hitler and Stalin" and was particularly lurid in describing her hatred of Rumsfeld's then-deputy:
As soft-spoken and sincere-sounding as Paul Wolfowitz is, is there yet any sane adult in this country whose skin does not crawl when this murderous liar opens his mouth and speaks?
She concluded: "In their secret hiding places, while celebrating newly won fortunes with their fellow brass, these men must surely congratulate themselves with orgies of carnal pleasure as they mock the multitudes who are yet so blind as to mistake them for God's devoted servants."
The mainstream media have largely ignored Sheehan's crackpot views, and not only--perhaps not even primarily--for ideological reasons. Members of the White House press corps find the annual sojourn to Crawford deathly dull. They need something to do; they want bylines--and "heartbroken everymom" makes for a much more compelling story than "extremist hatemonger."
The journalists will soon move on, and her political allies may do so as well. For them she is a mere instrument. The White House press corps will discard her as soon as they return to Washington where there's real news going on. Serious opponents of the war in Iraq will cast her aside if her foul statements make her an embarrassment. When that happens, we can only hope that someone still cares about Cindy Sheehan--not as a story or a symbol, but as a human being.
"and the mainstream media is a propaganda tool for the government."
She 'really' is confused, doesn't she know the MSM is a tool of the Demorats.
So, she's implying that Pearl Harbor was as fake as she insists 9/11 was?
And liberal Democratis are embracing this person, eh? Interesting!
There's some real news. I had no idea we have used nukes in Iraq. I would have thought someone in the MSM might have reported that. 'Mother Sheehan' is in need of some serious help, and that's the sad part.
Poison-spewing evil serpentine spawn of satan is what she sounds like. This is not a good person. The son probably enlisted to spite her, to get away from her.
"...if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go..."
Why would she need to take him to Canada? Did she forget that he voluntarily enlisted, and then voluntarily re-enlisted, and that there is no draft?
"Her IQ can be measured with a tire pressure gauge."
Does she blow on it or is it inserted in her ear?
I can simplify things for the Times.
Radicalized
There is another thread that I was just on...that said that Medea Benjamin, from Code Pink was on Hannity today...and said that Cindy Sheehan called HER during the RNC Convention..
and asked Benjamin if there were any kind of rallys or demonstrations that she could become involved in...
SO...that kinda takes the "these groups are using her" arguement, out from under her, doesn' it?
Then they will call her a martyr.
People stand in front of the White House every day calling him out and no one notices. It's only cuz it's in Crawford that anyone even notices. Heck, they're probably STILL standing in front of the WH calling him out and he's not even in Wash.
So you signed up today to post this? How very nice of you!
"This is something that can't be ignored," Sheehan said during a conference call with bloggers representing sites like democrats.com, codepink4peace.org, and crooksandliars.com. "They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state."
The loss of her son has apparently driven this woman into dementia. She at least has an excuse. What is inexcusable are the "compasionate" leftist vermin who are using this nutjob to score political points instead of getting her the counseling and institutionalization she needs. I am personally taking up a collection to pay for the electroshock therapy and lobotomy's needed by Cindy and her fellow protesters.
How appropriate it is that today's "Founder's Quote Daily" says the following:
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. -- John Adams, 1808 - letter to Benjamin Rush
Very true. I've grieved, and I can tell you the secret to coming out of grief is to immerse yourself into real activity and work. Not become a poster child for traitors. The people taking advantage of this poor dimwit should rot in hell.
I consider her illness akin to a variety of Munchausen's Syndrome. By poisoning the President, the nation and all which are not agreeable to her political views she turns herself into a martyr who should be pitied because so much in the world is arrayed against her. The woman is, indeed, mentally ill.
That explains a lot.
I remember when America was disgusted that Hamas employed a mentally retarded - or whatever the PC term is - kid as a suicide bomber. Now, the American press is using an obviously distraught and mentally unstable grieving mother as their poster child against President Bush and the War on Terrorism. Thak about sick bastards!!
How does this woman's tirade look to those who lost loved ones on 9/11--does she even understand that they could not have the opportunity to expect their death? Her son went willingly, it was a possibility that he could die.
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