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.
The only president I ever met was Jimmah Carter back in 1986. So if Sheen is an "acting president" it was pretty much the same thing.
BTTT!!!!!!!
I had a run in with some of the kids at BC a few years ago who were protesting "our policy". They didn't seem to understand that radical Islam would kill them just for going to a Jesuit School.
I sense the whole reason this show exists is soo people living in liberal delusion land can pretend that Clinton is still president.
It's very obvious.
As for as the rosary, even Satan was in heaven once.
I wonder if he looks her in the eye and says, "Cindy, you're right, I killed your son and I started this war on lies"... would she go home?
I finally figured out what's wrong with little martin sheen.
He played Lee in the Civil War series and he is playing the Prez in his TV role and he had to go sleep like the homeless to gain attention so...I figure this man must have a hankering for power and since he is not important enough to actually hold a job as a Civil War General or any General for that matter much less the President of the United States like George Bush...the guy has to go out and PLAY like he is SOMEBODY. The fact he is side by side with that person in TX says it all. That's his bag plain and simple.
How disgraceful to show off your faith in such an insincere manner. Now I learn Mr. Sheen is pro-abortion? I know, I know. He's probably one of those towers of jello who says stuff like this: "Personally, I'm against abortion, but if others wish to use it, that's OK." That's like saying this: "Yes, I'm against armed robbery, but if others wish to avail themselves of it, that's Okey -Dokey with me." Again I say, Geesh!
My all-time favorite Martin Sheen movie scene is at the end of "The Incident", where he and Tony Mudsante are a couple young hoods terrorizing subway passengers....the favorite scene is at the end, where he's lying on the floor yelping after being kicked in the cojones by Beau Bridges....
She oughta be happy now - getting to meet Martin Sheen! Birds of a feather . . .
Thanks for the ping!
This shows the pitiful state that the Democrats are in. They have lost so much so fast for so long, that they're reduced to wishful dreaming of a decent (in their eyes) Democratic President that they had to get this dweeb to portray one on TV.....
nah...!!! he's so......... deep.hahahahahahahaa
I once met a judge running for re-election, who later committed suicide. Does that count for anything? Can I be as important as Cindy now?
That pretty applies to all Hollywood left-wing activists. At some level, they understand that openly taking a radical left wing position on many issues will alienate them from their fan base, who are, of course, those little people in "fly over country". By embracing what they see an unpopular stance, one that will likely cost them at the box office, they gain a conceit that they are doing something courageous and bold, just like the bold and corageous heros they portrtay on the screen.
The fact is, however, that these "heros" would never consider abandoning their Hollywood wealth, their star status, or lifestyle to help anyone but themselves. The fact is that they are not heros, and no matter what they do on or off the screen, it's only make believe, and not the real thing at all.
Want to clean out Cindy Sheehan's little 'Funkytown'?
Set up a big job-fair booth across the road with the banner:
'We're Hiring!'
WRONG!
You're got Martin Sheen (Real Name: Ramon Estevez) acting like Martin Sheen
Too bad he isn't a real actor either.
What a reporter needs to ask the "Guest Actors and Guest Politicans" is who picked up their tab to go to Crawford to appear on the "Cindy Show."
I would bet you a ton of money that not only was their tab picked up, but they got a "bonus" paid for doing the Cindy show.. I'll bet you it was higher than scale.
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