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CINDY SHEEHAN GIVES UP ALL THAT PROTESTING

She made a speech over the weekend about going back to where she used to be and try to recuperate her normal life.

She also wrote in her daily diary that she publishes on Daily Kos that she just can’t make the sacrificies anymore. It appears that she has finally realized that one person cannot change a culture or a society or even (probably) the people who live down the block.

In fact, adults can’t change anybody unless — and this is a really big “unless” — the person wanting to make the change has control of the environment of the person they want to change.

Did I say that right?

Think about it. We were able to change our developing children because we had control of their environment.

What did Sheehan have control of? George Bush, the president. Nope.

Just try to get into the White House to have a chat with him. Not going to happen. And if you think you can ride over the Andrews Air Force Base with the dream of boarding Air Force One so you could bend his ear on a long flight, think twice about that one too.

But change the president’s behavior? Not going to happen. Change his point of view. Not likely either.

Or how about congress? You are definitely going to zero out on that one too.

What could Sheehan possibly do to get the attention of anybody in congress? And even if she did, how would she motiviate them to make any changes?

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have enough troubles doing that and they each have great big political sticks to wave around. Sheehan doesn’t have any political clout.

My personal opinion is that she is probably stepping down because she can’t draw a crowd anymore. And when you’re in the protest business, if you can’t draw a crowd you can’t get funding.

Bread and butter decisions overshadow ideologies.

Sheehan realized a critical point of view — the far far left is just as out of touch as the far far right. Ideologies don’t live on the extremes of the political — oxygen deprivation, I guess.

I hope that Sheehan is going home to finish her grief work at the loss of her son Casey. For that I will keep her in my prayers.

She is more fragile than she appears to be.

I just hope that I don’t see her on the talk show circuit. That would be a channel-changing moment, for sure. She already tried a book, didn’t she? Doubt if it sold 1,000 copies.

Somebody sold this woman a bill of goods and they dumped her when she was no longer useful to them. Problem is, her naivete was the cake and venom was the frosting. Not a good combination.