Cindy Sheehan: Bush was 'pretty rude' after son's death, 'not shocked' by Trump

Washington Examiner ^ | Oct. 18, 2017

[deplorableindc]

Cindy Sheehan says President Trump's allegedly insensitive remarks to the widow of a soldier killed in Niger aren't surprising to her, and that former President George W. Bush had a similarly difficult time with her family after her son Casey's 2004 death in Iraq.

Bush's treatment of grieving military family members, including Sheehan, who camped outside his Texas ranch to protest the Iraq War, is upheld frequently as an example for Trump to follow.

But Sheehan said Bush's attempt to comfort her family and others was rife with awkwardness and upsetting moments, and said she's "not shocked" to read that Trump allegedly said of Army Sgt. La David Johnson to his widow that "he knew what he signed up for."

[DesertRhino]

Don’t care and not the presidents job to personally be the emoter in chief for every grieving mom. Especially ones that stab their military son’s legacy in the back.

Think Harry Truman made a sensitive nurturing phone call to every mom who lost a son in the Korean war?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Cindy Sheehan spent 8 years getting absolutely no attention from the press. It was very sad for a media whore. She is so happy to once again have a President that she can get media coverage for criticizing.

[Mears]

Think Harry Truman made a sensitive nurturing phone call to every mom who lost a son in the Korean war”

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I doubt that-—there were too many.

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[ClearBlueSky]

Bottom line- Trump can do no right. If he doesn't call-he gets excoriated for insensitivity, if he does call EVERY word and pause will be redefined. IF he said what is claimed- IF-he is at most tactless. An offense hardly raising to the level of bowing to foreign Islamic rulers. Can Trump learn to be less bombastic and 'soup Nazi'? Yes. Does it really matter if he doesn't as long as he defends this country? No. A-hole rulers have been the norm in human history, very few great leaders were warm,fuzzy people and even if Trump proves to be the worlds #1 A-Hole-and I don't think he even comes close, historically or presently:

HE'S NOT HILLARY! That is all.

[tina07]

yep..just thought how the fake ‘phone call’ debacle is the new Cindy Sheehan..

[jerod]

No surprise that the lamestream press dug this media hound tramp up for another few minutes of attention after ignoring her throughout the Obama administrations tenure... Seriously... This woman is a terrible excuse for a human being, enriching her own ego and narcissistic neediness through the death of her son.

Pathetic.

[Leep]

Her funds must be running low?

[JimRed]

Since she was a Bush hater to begin with, nothing he said would have been acceptable. Since the current situation involves a Trump hater (or someone influenced by Trump haters) the same is to be expected.

[Old Yeller]

15:01...

[blue-duncan]

“We’re in a war, a shooting war. We’ve got to fight. And some of us have got to die. I’m not trying to tell you not to be afraid. Fear is normal. But stop worrying about it and about yourselves. Stop making plans. Forget about going home. Consider yourselves already dead. Once you accept that idea, it won’t be so tough.” Gregory Peck in “Twelve O’clock High”

[zencycler]

Many on the left are so filled with hatred for anyone else having opposing views that even during war and somber moments they are on the lookout for any awkward phrase their “enemy” might utter that they can twist and magnify to their advantage.

[DoughtyOne]

“:^)

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[zencycler]

Typo or autocorrect fail ... meant sad and somber not war and somber

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Oh no, not Ed Wynn again.

[peeps36]

We didn't hear anything from the Shehag for eight years while obama’s stupidity was getting soldiers killed. She had nothing to say when obama and hillary lied to the faces of the parents of dead soldiers. Now the media pulls her from the dung pile because we have a republican president.

[Jane Long]

Poor Cindy....she can't take advantage of the Weinstein situation, so she jumps on the Rep Wilson nonsense bandwagon 🙄

[Cementjungle]

[NorthMountain]

civil discourse and democratic relationship with Bush when it was non-stop calling him an ape, a murderer, a war criminal.

They called him Hitler, and called for snipers to kill him.

But somehow that was all OK, because they're leftists.

[realcleanguy]

Cindy Sheehan politicized her son’s death to the extend that her own family and friends all left her side as she became obsessed with her hatred of Bush. She took money to speak of her hatred, she was praised by and became friends with David Duke, Hugo Chavez and attended a conference with communists in Caracas, Venezuela. Her marriage ended because of all her affairs and her addiction to online pornography. None of her family or friends could trust her anymore. So I am perplexed that any reporter would bring her out of the woodwork for any article

[NorthMountain]

Consider yourselves already dead. Once you accept that idea, it won’t be so tough.” Gregory Peck in “Twelve O’clock High”

USAAF bomber crews over Europe experienced a higher casualty rate than ANY other group of fighting men in WWII.