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.
I wouldn't be surprised!
Only if you insist on meeting with Pres. Bush to find out why he caused it.
John Kerry and algore were there?
Dang, you beat me to it... doesn't she look a LOT like Kerry in that picture?
Hey, Cindy, give it up! Has-beens like Joan Baez, Martin Sheen, and Rev-rund Al are the best you will get to your cesspool of aging hippies!
Wasn't his show cancelled for lack of interest?
Say goodnight Cindy.
Actually, my friend's daughter who lives in Waco said Michael Moore-on was there last week. Guess SIN-dy needed a check written and signed by MM to pay for off the OLD MEDIA.
Or howabout a Texas tradition: a huge barbeque pit w/sign:
"Meat. Git yer bar-b-q meat here. Free meat: swine flesh, whole beeves. Step right up--EAT, meat!"
Martin, Mother Sheehan and the PETA-ites would be hurling,
but Al would probably hog it all.
LOL!
I wonder if they're related somehow?
Hey, in that woman's world, one president is as good as another. (Except for BJBilly, of course)
SIN-dy is a Saddamite, not a peace mom. The peace movement is about the peace of being a slave. It is so sad how much she has lost, at her own insistance. She did not understand Casey and lost him. She did not understand Casey's beliefs and lost his memory. She does not understand her grief and lost her husband and inlaws. She lost her job.
Most of Cindy's losses are voluntary. She made choices. She chose badly. She's not a person to look up to. She is pathetic.
But she is an ICON to the left. She is what they aspire to be.
DK
Sheen suffered a massive heart attack during filming of "Apocalypse Now." I really thought he changed but unfortuantely he didn't.
I am awaiting their arrival.......with breathless anticipation......DeLay's district is just south of me...and I will be there Tom.......
Cindy and her group plus the media has done more for the Republican Party than Karl Rove could ever have. The more publicity they receive, the more people are awaken and are taking a stand. The antiquated media can ignore what happened this week-end in Texas because we do not need nor listen to the dinosaur media. We know the truth and we are not going away. All Cindy and her group is doing is increasing our numbers. Go ahead Soros and your ilk continue wasting your money and fueling the economy. Man are they maroons....
Question: What does CINDY do for a living?
Granted, giving birth and raising a patriotic child who fought and died for his country is a wonderful thing, but if she's so bothered by it, why can't she do what other parents do when their kids do something they don't approve of: sit alone in a dark room wondering where SHE went wrong?
You summed it up in a nutshell. They are NOT heroes. Never could be. When you love yourself as much as they do...there is not room for anything or anybody else. Wow. Think about that. Isn't that a terrible way to live? Wasteful spending on a daily basis on material things that don't mean anything at all? I guess the more they buy themselves or spend the more they think they will finally find that one purchase that will make them whole.
Sad for them in a way. They have so much and surround themselves with so many people who are just there to reap the benefits they never really know what is imporant and what is valuable. They sell their souls it seems for the almight dollar and what it can bring. I remember when JLO and and Ben Affleck had a private shopping trip with her mother at some mall. Actually closed down the mall so the three of them could shop. Can you even begin to imagine that? Why would anyone do that? Seriously. Fame or no fame? That was so blatantly greedy it boggled my mind.
So, they have no room for anyone or anything in their lives UNLESS it is beneficial to them i.e. protests and hangin' out with the rest of their ilk for recognition like in Texas.
Oh I am so glad I am me, aren't you glad to be you and not them?
I read that she lost her job with the state.
DK
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