Posted on 08/18/2005 5:42:35 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
Columnist Kathleen Parker's recent column on Cindy Sheehan is worth reading. Parker writes, "At this point, Sheehan's demands have become impossibly problematic for Bush. Just as intended? By declining to see her, he seems cruel and out of touch with others' suffering. But by seeing her, he puts himself - and potentially the security of others - at great risk.
Why can't he come out?
He can't because he's the president of the United States, because we're at war, and because every move he makes causes ripples around the world. Ripples that, depending on other circumstances, can get other sons and daughters killed before Joe Trippi (Democratic consultant) can say, 'That's a wrap.'
He can't because what Sheehan's anti-war supporters want is neither a hug nor a few words of comfort. They want a confrontation - a wrenching, sobbing, high-noon showdown - soon to be a Democratic political ad and Al-Jazeera headline for the foreseeable future.
Sheehan, who opposed the war before her son died, belongs to the movement now. And Bush, regardless of what he personally might wish to do, has responsibilities that far exceed the crowd gathering beyond his Praire Chapel Ranch.
Once he allows himself to be captured in a video clip or a photograph, recoiling from the agony of a bereaved mother, the world is in greater danger. Democrats might be delighted to freeze that image in political time, but so would insurgents, planning their next Baghdad ambush.
Whatever Sheehan hoped for in the beginning of her watch is irrelevent now. She and her cause have been usurped and distorted by the phenomenon of which she is the center. Her healing will have to wait until the next big story breaks and the media circus moves on."
What she said :)
Catch the transcriprs of last nights Hardball. Christopher Hitchens went biblical on Cindy Sheehan. I expect to see video clips online of this performance.
The point is he ALREADY met with her. Shes no more special than anyone else.
Great cartoon!
what do you mean he went biblical?
yup , give 'em enough rope , there are many , lots of rope
On Imus this morning Senator Allen (r) from Virginia said that the president should have met with Sheehan, even had lunch with her rather than letting this get so out of hand. OUT OF HAND? It's the leftist media that hyped this into a bogus news story.
That seems to be the rub right now; should he or shouldn't he?
If he did, he should do it out of the view of cameras.
Is anyone else laughing uncontrollably?
He gave SINdy a verbal b_tch-slapping!
Allen continues to disappoint.
Do you have a link?
I never knew Kathleen Parker to be much of a conservative columnist, but she's dead-on with this one.
Could he bring her, and only her, onto the ranch and have a good ol' one-on-one with her? No media around?
On second thought, I guess that wouldn't work because she would just come out of the meeting and spew some more lies.
I still think that someone needs to sit outside of Bill Clinton's home or Hilary's home or Gorelick's home or Reno's home or Berger's home or......
WOWEE!! just the fact that Allen was on with "the mummy in the cowboy getup" moves Allen down a notch or two on my board
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