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Peace mom (Cindy Sheehan) slips from public stage (plans return to Crawford for Thanksgiving)
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| 10/17/05
| Josh Richman
Posted on 10/17/2005 8:45:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
Peace mom slips from public stage: Cindy Sheehan plans to return to presidents ranch for Thanksgiving
SAN FRANCISCO Peace mom Cindy Sheehan peered out a window 14 floors above the Civic Center on Friday and asked, Want to see my new car?
She pointed to a sky-blue Volkswagen Beetle convertible parked near City Hall. She explained she hasnt treated herself to much since her son, Casey, died in Iraq in April 2004, but shed always wanted such a car and recently decided it was time for a change.
Sheehans life has changed profoundly since Caseys death richer in grief, and in purpose and especially since her transformation into an anti-war icon with her August vigil near President Bushs Crawford, Texas ranch.
But after drawing the international spotlight at Camp Casey in Crawford, her name is fading from headlines.
In Crawford, her every word was beamed by a forest of satellite trucks to millions worldwide. On Friday, she and a state lawmaker were attended by TV cameras from one English and one Spanish station; one radio reporter; and one mainstream print reporter.
Sheehan, 48, hasnt slowed down. She was in Sacramento on Wednesday, urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to withdraw the California National Guard from Iraq. She addressed a Yom Kippur service Thursday in San Francisco on the nations need to atone for the war. Fridays news conference was a follow-up to Wednesdays plea to the governor.
Shell spend Thanksgiving back at Crawford. Whether shell make lasting headlines there remains to be seen.
She who bursts upon the scene as new news very quickly departs the scene as old news, and for the same reasons, said Todd Gitlin, a 1960s activist whos now an author and Columbia University journalism and sociology professor.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cindysheehan; crawford; puffpiece; sheehan; toddgitlin; volkswagen
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To: lowbridge
She explained she hasnt treated herself to much since her son, Casey, died in Iraq in April 2004, but shed always wanted such a car and recently decided it was time for a change. She paid off her IRS tax lien and put a healthy down payment a house with Casy's death benefits. Musta slipped her mind.
To: llevrok
"Is Mother bringing sweet potatoes or a pie?"
Squash(ed).
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:05:57 PM PDT
by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: All
First they show up right at the start of Dove Season, and now they're going to come back for the Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot!
Sorry, folks, I couldn't resist it.
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:06:49 PM PDT
by
AZ_Cowboy
("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
To: lowbridge
Doesn't she have a date in divorce court?
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:07:33 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(Dead people voting is the closest thing the Democrats come to believing in eternal life.)
To: lowbridge
Poor baby. She's missed being in the limelight. I hope President Bush doesn't go back to Texas for Thanksgiving. How funny that would be. :o)
To: lowbridge
Cindy Sheehan plans to return to presidents ranch for Thanksgiving
Well, they would definitely need a turkey. It would be great if, while she is putting on her pathetic little show in Crawford, the President is once again
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:12:26 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
("Sharpie Diem": seize the marker.)
To: All
Will the circus have more acts to it this time?
Last time, we had Joan Baez, some other actor nut, the race-hustlers that think they are preachers, and the David Duke Klan down there.
We really need a greater diversity of oddity down there this time to raise the freakishness to a whole new level. Perhaps they can throw in Fred Phelps?
====
My only serious thought on the matter is to repeat what I said the last time.
Those poor, poor people in Crawford. I can't imagine all the crap they had to go through.
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:12:36 PM PDT
by
AZ_Cowboy
("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
To: lowbridge
Hmmmm new car and "richer" for her experience........sedition pays this chump her chump change for her Sheejadi betrayal of the nation her son died for......doom on her and her handlers.
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:13:34 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: lowbridge
" Peace mom Cindy Sheehan peered out a window 14 floors above the Civic Center on Friday"Jump! Jump! Jump!
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:15:05 PM PDT
by
de Buillion
(Perspective: 1880 dead Heroes in 3 yr vs. 3589 abortions EVERY DAY , 1999, USA.)
To: lowbridge
The left will not allow Bush one moment of peace at his home. She is despicable.
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:15:23 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: llevrok
Ok, on the "I couldn't give a Flying F**k" scale how would you rate this?
To: JRios1968
To: lowbridge; ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo; Smartass; bitt; Boazo
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:24:24 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch
That is so funny,BWAhahaha
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:49:11 PM PDT
by
Boazo
(From the mind of BOAZO)
To: keithtoo
Windy Cindy Mind-y Bendy.
News Splits, Ditch Bitch.
Turkey Ho', Money Mo'
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:55:22 PM PDT
by
bitt
(THE PRESIDENT: "Ask the pollsters. My job is to lead and to solve problems. ")
To: potlatch
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:56:07 PM PDT
by
bitt
(THE PRESIDENT: "Ask the pollsters. My job is to lead and to solve problems. ")
To: Boazo; bitt
Someone else made it and I just saved it!
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:58:43 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; Smartass; DoughtyOne; Travis McGee; onyx; Howlin; bitt; Boazo; ...
A sensitive moment as Cindy Sheehan reflects upon finding that her Speaker's Bureau fees have had federal, state, and local income taxes (after 2 days within NY state) and complete Social Security, Medicare, and many other mandatory deductions withheld from her big speaking fee checks.....
Will the IRS now also deduct Cindy's previous unpaid income taxes?
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posted on
10/17/2005 10:26:33 PM PDT
by
devolve
(------------------ ( -- do not check out my lame FR home page -- ) ------------------)
To: lowbridge
It's so nice not to see that skank in the news.
Somehow I'd prefer the poison of seeing Sharpton, hitlery,
Kerry and that guy that ran with him, et al and (I think even) Helen Thomas over that skidmark of a "woman".
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posted on
10/17/2005 10:33:32 PM PDT
by
jaguaretype
(Sometimes war IS the answer)
To: devolve
LOL, you are too funny!! Also, you come out with the vampires. I am heading for bed but enjoyed the laugh!
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posted on
10/17/2005 10:35:01 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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