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OPEN FORUM: 'Goodbye, America' [Cindy Sheehan Opus Alert]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/31/7 | Cindy Sheehan

Posted on 05/31/2007 2:15:24 PM PDT by SmithL

I have endured a lot of smears and hatred since my son Casey was killed in Iraq and especially since I became the so-called "face" of the American anti-war movement. And, especially since I renounced any ties I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the milder rebukes.

I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day morning. These are not spur-of-the-moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.

The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George W. Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system?

However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the left started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left," but of "right and wrong."

I am deemed a radical because I believe partisan politics should be left by the wayside

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: moonbat; mothersheehan; sheehan
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1 posted on 05/31/2007 2:15:26 PM PDT by SmithL
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Pete Wilson is discussing this now on KGO-810.


2 posted on 05/31/2007 2:16:06 PM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SmithL

3 posted on 05/31/2007 2:16:33 PM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: Petronski

That’s not her!
; )


4 posted on 05/31/2007 2:17:30 PM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Cindy has really slimmed down since she went on that hunger strike.


5 posted on 05/31/2007 2:17:37 PM PDT by RobFromGa (This tagline intentionally left blank.)
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To: SmithL
To borrow from the movie "Tombstone"

Well - bye

6 posted on 05/31/2007 2:18:13 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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To: SmithL

Door, meet Ms. Sheehan’s @$$. Next time try not to let it hit you.


7 posted on 05/31/2007 2:19:22 PM PDT by colorcountry ("You step in crap once and spend the rest of your life scraping it off.")
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To: SmithL
when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party

That tends to be problematic. Sorry she had to find this out the hard way.
8 posted on 05/31/2007 2:19:26 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: SmithL

So what?


9 posted on 05/31/2007 2:19:31 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: SmithL
And, especially since I renounced any ties I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore"

Wow, something coming out of DU that I actually agree with?

10 posted on 05/31/2007 2:19:35 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: SmithL

“good riddance”

Ditto that.


11 posted on 05/31/2007 2:20:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SmithL
I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it. It's up to you now.

Oh brother! I was hoping she was going to say she's moving to Mexico or Venezuela. What a disappointment.

12 posted on 05/31/2007 2:20:52 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: SmithL
since I became the so-called "face" of the American anti-war movement

And what an ugly, vapid, moronic face it is, Cindy! So ugly, in fact, that your puppeteers decided they could no longer afford to have you out front as election season nears.

13 posted on 05/31/2007 2:21:46 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: SmithL

Dang, this woman can’t even drop out sight without screaming “Look at me!”


14 posted on 05/31/2007 2:21:48 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Some people are like slinkys, the idea of them tumbling down a flight of stairs makes you smile.)
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To: SmithL

So LEAVE ALREADY.


15 posted on 05/31/2007 2:22:19 PM PDT by BMC1 ( (MOHAMMED INVENTED ISLAM IN ORDER TO LOOT, MURDER AND SUBJUGATE OTHERS. THEY DO SATAN'S BIDDING.))
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To: SmithL
I doubt Sheehan wrote this.
16 posted on 05/31/2007 2:23:19 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: SmithL

They stopped returning her calls, so she quit. The woman needs a shrink.


17 posted on 05/31/2007 2:24:40 PM PDT by hershey
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
How many times has she said ‘goodbye’ in the past two weeks.. this has to be about the 10th article she’s written.. will she just pack and go.. this is getting like Bab’s 10 farewell tours..
18 posted on 05/31/2007 2:25:09 PM PDT by mnehring (Fred Thompson\Zell Miller '08 - Give the Dems and Terrorists Hell !!!!!!!!!!)
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How can we miss her when she won’t go?


19 posted on 05/31/2007 2:25:29 PM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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I have never, ever seen a dem look like that...


20 posted on 05/31/2007 2:25:38 PM PDT by mnehring (Fred Thompson\Zell Miller '08 - Give the Dems and Terrorists Hell !!!!!!!!!!)
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