"he does share one trait with nearly all her countrymen, however. As we are parting, I say to Sheehan: “So I take it your politics are pretty socialist, then?” She looks like I’ve just spat in her face. One of her American friends, who lives in the UK, says: “He means like the old Labour Party – social justice, social democracy, all that.” “Oh,” she says. “Oh my God. Yes. Socialist? Is that what you call it? God, I thought you were calling me a communist.” [Yes, the country should take its marching orders from such a worldly sophisticate.] As I get out of the car, another of her American friends [entourage] says to me: “She’s been called a lot of things in her time, but in American-English, what you just said is like calling someone a paedophile.” You can take the radical out of the American, it seems, but you can’t take the American out of the radical. Communist, apparently, is the worst c-word you could ever level at Cindy Sheehan."
What an utter pile of crap THIS is. It's as if the writer or Sheehan or her friend were performing spin. Of course she's a socialist, and if this were written by an honest reporter he wouldn't try this last-paragraph attempt at "mainstreaming" her. GAHHH!!! Why do I put myself through this?
"he does share one trait with nearly all her countrymen, however. As we are parting, I say to Sheehan: “So I take it your politics are pretty socialist, then?” She looks like I’ve just spat in her face. One of her American friends, who lives in the UK, says: “He means like the old Labour Party – social justice, social democracy, all that.” “Oh,” she says. “Oh my God. Yes. Socialist? Is that what you call it? God, I thought you were calling me a communist.” [Yes, the country should take its marching orders from such a worldly sophisticate.] As I get out of the car, another of her American friends [entourage] says to me: “She’s been called a lot of things in her time, but in American-English, what you just said is like calling someone a paedophile.” You can take the radical out of the American, it seems, but you can’t take the American out of the radical. Communist, apparently, is the worst c-word you could ever level at Cindy Sheehan."
This woman is much dumber than I thought.