***...."We've had slogans like, 'No Blood for Oil,' and 'Bring the Troops Home Now,' but this is a real flesh-and-blood story," said Jodie Evans, a co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, which has led many of the anti-war movement's guerrilla tactics and organized meetings of Iraqi and American citizens. "What works is that it is focused. It is one person's loss versus another person who caused that loss.
"Geez, she's a mom who's lost a child," said Evans, who teared up at Camp Casey this week as she recalled her own 2-year-old daughter dying 20 years ago. "Who can argue with that?"
......Glenn Smith, a veteran Texas political consultant who is organizing a counter-event to the evangelical-sponsored Justice Sunday II gathering in Nashville, said it's rare that a voice like Sheehan's emerges. "Probably the best thing the movement can do is get out of her way," said Smith, whose Nashville gathering of liberal faith leaders is called Freedom and Faith. "She doesn't need managing."
Smith has worked with Sheehan, a former Catholic youth minister, at other events involving left-leaning religious leaders and marvels that her voice "is so real. It didn't come out of a focus group or some kind of professional message guru. It's not a polished political message. It's more like Greek tragedy."
Whether Sheehan is the right person for the job of "the new face" is an open question. "I don't even realize it yet," she told The Chronicle this week. "I haven't been able to see any news or be on my computer or read e-mail because it's been full." ...........
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/14/SHEEHAN.TMP
I haven't found any history about Cindy yet, but I found this which was very interesting
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200508290901.asp
Ever notice how they kiss up to the fact that she 'lost a child' but nobody ever mentions the mothers who have lost a child to their holiest of rites, abortion? Hmmmmm.
Ever notice how they kiss up to the fact that she 'lost a child' but nobody ever mentions the mothers who have lost a child to their holiest of rites, abortion? Hmmmmm.