Posted on 08/29/2005 8:54:49 AM PDT by Milhous
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- Cindy Sheehan still hasn't achieved a meeting with the president during her three-week-long war protest near his ranch, but she met a man who plays one on TV.
Martin Sheen, who plays Democratic President Josiah "Jeb" Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," went to Sheehan's makeshift campsite Sunday. He is known for his peace activism.
"At least you've got the acting president of the United States," Sheen said as the crowd of more than 300 people cheered. "I think you know what I do for a living, but this is what I do to stay alive."
Then Sheen led anti-war demonstrators who are Roman Catholic in reciting the rosary.
Sheehan, of Vacaville, was among a group of grieving families who met President Bush about two months after her son died last year, before she became a vocal opponent of the war.
Bush has said Sheehan has the right to protest and he sympathizes with her, but his aides have said there are no plans to change his schedule to meet with her. His vacation is to end Sept. 2.
She arrived in Bush's adopted hometown Aug. 6 and promised to stay until she could question Bush about the war that has claimed more than 1,870 U.S. soldiers' lives -- including that of her son Casey.
Earlier Sunday, the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke at an interfaith service at the camp, saying he was compelled to meet Sheehan.
"I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation," Sharpton said. "Somebody had to bring to the doorsteps of this president the truth."
Sharpton, a former Democratic presidential candidate, said he and the peace activists would protest a war they believed was wrong regardless of the president's political party.
During the service, several cars with pro-Bush signs drove slowly down the road by the protest campsite. Later, one man who had been walking down the street was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly shoving an anti-war demonstrator, McLennan County sheriff's deputies said.
Sharpton reminded protesters that Sunday was the 42nd anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.
"The civil rights movement and the peace movement was not made from big names ... and I wanted to come on the anniversary with ordinary people that are doing what I think Dr. King would have wanted us to do today," Sharpton said.
He spoke under a large tent on the 1-acre private lot the demonstrators have used for more than a week for large events. Some protesters also have started camping at the second site.
Meanwhile, a few dozen Bush supporters held signs from their small camp in a ditch across the street from Sheehan's original site, where most of the dozens of protesters have continued camping off the main road leading to Bush's ranch. A dozen sheriff's deputies stood between the two groups.
After the war protest ends Wednesday, the anti-war group will spread its message on a bus tour, with the first stop probably in the southeast Texas district of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Media whore meets media whore.
I crap better turds than those two will ever be.
MSM: "When the wacko leftists use religion to further their cause, it's OK with us!"
I feel better now that President Bartlett has met with her! Maybe he could get her a job in his state department.
>>"At least you've got the acting president of the United States,"
"I think you know what I do for a living, but this is what I do to stay alive."<<
BA-DOMP-BOMP! "Thank you. I'm at the Tiki Room every Tuesday night. Tip your waitresses."
It wasn't very interesting and nobody wrote a story about it.
Fictional President with fictional problems.
Sheen and the sheehadists...IMHO the word "President" should not be mentioned anywhere in any article where this fool is concerned (Martin Sheen).
You know... there are people out there who think he IS the President.
Notice the difference in news coverage for this past weekend in Crawford:
Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram
President Bush's supporters poured into Crawford by the thousands Saturday, for the first time outnumbering war protesters led by Cindy Sheehan.
San Francisco Bay Area KRON4
Meanwhile, a few dozen Bush supporters held signs from their small camp in a ditch across the street ... Article at KRON 4
Sheen said as the crowd of more than 300 people cheered.
Seriously, you’ll see a bigger crowd in the ninth inning of an 18-2 interleague preseason game between the Rockies and the Royals, after a 2 hour rain delay.
You know, I really used to admire Martin Sheen. But he's another one of these muttonheads who thinks he's smart because he's famous. That's like saying the sun is hot because it's big. Geesh.
Exactly!
This whole "Camp Cindi" thing is nothing more than a pathetic exhibition of Bolshevik Theater.
And no highly paid actor can bail this production out of its lamentably performance.
A friend of mine used to work with a guy who played in a Schwarzenegger movie.
Very interesting. Do you have a link to the AP story on that?
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