Posted on 02/03/2006 10:25:04 AM PST by SmithL
I do admire Cindy Sheehan. I like the way she used her moral authority to focus the attention on a single story of needless sacrifice, a single victim of the Bush administration's profligate and inept invasion of Iraq. Her standing as the mother of a soldier killed in the line of duty made her -- for a while -- not susceptible to the usual attacks from the right. When the sleek presidential motorcade whizzed past her small encampment in Crawford, Texas, it was a useful symbol for the decadent isolation of the Bush White House.
And so I say with all love: Cindy, back away from the fame machine. You are who you are, and you were great in that role, but you can't be someone else without a lot of work. And when things move too fast, you become a sock puppet, and easy to make fun of, and that hurts -- you, me, the cause, whatever. You could still be doing good, but right now, you're not helping. I have no idea whether you are leading the charge or following bad advice, but please, rethink the whole thing.
It all started when that encampment grew and grew. It became a kind of Woodstock for people with agendas. Inevitably, those agendas diluted and muddied the message, and pretty soon it became Camp Progressive Humans Against Globalization, Unsafe Logging Practices and American Policy in Burma. And then celebrities showed up, and we all had hot dogs and listened to Bruce Springsteen.
So somewhere, I think, Cindy Sheehan bought into the Cindy Sheehan myth. It happens. As my friend Carol Cantor says, "I think it's standard-issue (in the) left-wing activist's world, with the focus splintering into a multitude of passionate ineffectualities. She's done her bit and had her moment....
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Really, how dare Cindy Sheehan or any other American speak about my President, and the office he holds, in this most horrendously and outrageously hateful manner!
Cindy’s 15 minutes of infamy is up! Since Cindy is so darned important, I think we need to know about her. Cindy divorced her first husband and left her son, who she protests to care so much for, with his father while she became a political activist for the Democrat party. Her son was raised by his father and step mom. Cindy remarried and her second husband filed for divorce. Cindy had very little to do with her son. However, this grieving mother is defrauding her own son’s life by using his death to elevate herself into the limelight to further the democrat anti-Bush agenda.
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Good Critique.
The left is either blinded by their rage against President Bush and therefore know not what they say...Or, they are truly enemies of America. Which is it, I wonder?
We Freepers have a responsibility to ensure that what we are posting is correct, as we are targets of the Rabid Left Moonbats.
Can a leopard shed his spots? Can idiots suddenly become smart and curtail their idiocy? Wishful thinking. Not gonna happen.
God gives each of us an unique soul. We are His children; our parents are merely custodians. Some parents and children get lucky and are compatible. Others are not. Luckily for the United States, Casey was very different from his mama. He apparently took after his father's side - the side that issued a statement disassociating themselves from Cindy's seditious activities.
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