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Readers react fiercely to Sheehan column
Seattlepi.com ^ | February 6, 2006 | SUSAN PAYNTER

Posted on 02/05/2006 2:01:53 PM PST by AmericanMade1776

She's "nothing more than a hysterical, brainless woman," reader Michael Velikin wrote. The type who would be declared a witch or delirious in another era. Of course "now we know more about women's cycles and menopause, we're more sympathetic to their behavior."

And the name-calling escalated from there.

Sheehan is just angry at her dead son for being a grown-up who supported the war, Michael Modes said. Now she's just another celebrity intoxicated by her reflection in the TV mirror. He doubts that, if she could, Sheehan would trade her fame in to have her son back alive, Leonard Giaccone accused.

And several among the 200 or more e-mailers and callers commenting on Wednesday's column charged that Sheehan had no right to mourn her son so publicly since she was a "bad mother" whose ex-husband raised her son more than she did.

To Howard York of Sequim, being a non-custodial mom exposes Sheehan as "a fraud so far as the bleeding is concerned and (she) is using the loss only for political leverage."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


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1 posted on 02/05/2006 2:01:55 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
They say a person is known by the company they keep. That's true of the crowd Jihad Cindy hangs out with.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

2 posted on 02/05/2006 2:03:09 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Traitor and Anti America Pal Hugo.

3 posted on 02/05/2006 2:04:21 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776; HiJinx; Spiff; Da Jerdge; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; windchime; ...

Oh this is good!!!!!


4 posted on 02/05/2006 2:05:16 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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"Your article made my heart hurt! How can you, as an American, side with the likes of anti-Americans who demean our country and military by criticizing our president at a TIME OF WAR?" Fran Griffin demanded.

John Hession of Redmond was the most succinct. "There is another T-word for Ms. Sheehan -- traitor," he said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/258248_paynter06.html?source=rss


5 posted on 02/05/2006 2:07:00 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Well, people without a full deck need attention, too!


6 posted on 02/05/2006 2:09:50 PM PST by Publius6961
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To: AmericanMade1776
"whose ex-husband raised her son more than she did."

All this time I'd never heard that. Her son (forgot his name, isn't that pathetic?) lived with his dad?

7 posted on 02/05/2006 2:10:00 PM PST by oprahstheantichrist (...or false prophet at the very least.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

That line about "women's cycles" reminded me about why they call it PMS - because "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken!

Actually, as far as the loss of her son, I think most of us are probably more sorry about that than she is. She seems to have just found that ball dropped into her lap, so she ran with it.


8 posted on 02/05/2006 2:11:13 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: AmericanMade1776

Saw a car magnet sign that was hilarious -- it was the standard ribbon shape that we've all seen for everything, it was solid black with white bold block lettering, said -- SOME SHEEHAN STOLE MY "WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS" MAGNET


9 posted on 02/05/2006 2:11:22 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Just another one of the ever growing members of the Freak Show surrounding me that people used to pay to see in cages when the side show came to town! I'm out numbered so I'm heading for the hills!


10 posted on 02/05/2006 2:12:23 PM PST by Texas Lizard (If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything)
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To: AmericanMade1776

How can she let herself be used this way ?


11 posted on 02/05/2006 2:14:18 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Cindy looks so happy...it looks like the beginning signs of a romance.


12 posted on 02/05/2006 2:15:24 PM PST by benjibrowder ("America is always more secure when Freedom is on the march"-George Bush, Jan.31, 2006)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Sheehan is nothing more than an opportunist using the death of her son as the opportunity. She is a despicable human being and I can't think of any reason to give her a pass.
13 posted on 02/05/2006 2:15:37 PM PST by baiamonte
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To: AmericanMade1776
She certainly has done a lot to raise awareness of the dangers of unmedicated mental disorders.
14 posted on 02/05/2006 2:16:40 PM PST by Hexenhammer ( Oregon: She dies by her own prescriptions)
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To: benjibrowder

They did make a "lovely" couple, didn't they??

Of course Jesse Jackson might get jealous...remember the picture of her hugging his back last year? who-hoo!!


15 posted on 02/05/2006 2:19:11 PM PST by Txsleuth (l drink tea, not kool-aid.)
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To: Texas Lizard
I'm surrounded mostly by liberals too. One of my best friends is a controller at Wachovia Bank. One day I asked him if he knew any businessmen who were libs. NOPE. I've asked all the folks with whom I (I'm a businessman) work if they were libs. NOPE.

It seems to me that school teachers capture that market of liberalism. Probably because they have no common sense, never took an Economics class, or Accounting, Finance or Marketing. Never had to COMPETE in Free Enterprise system.

16 posted on 02/05/2006 2:20:05 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: goldstategop
From what I read about this woman, Sheehan, she is very unstable to say the least. I predict when the lime light is over she will end her life. The MSM has built her up to something she is not and, when that lime light stops so shall she.A lot of Holly Wood stars do this and, remember they made great money with their fame. Miss Sheehan I don't believe will make a great deal of money, for certain she has made plenty of enemies. When the liberals and the MSM can no longer use her, I think you know what they will do with her.
It is sad she chose to use her sons heroic death in the way she has, she could have chosen the the alternate.
17 posted on 02/05/2006 2:20:58 PM PST by buck61 (luv6060)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Mr. Sheehan needs take Mrs. Sheehan out behind the woodshed for a good whuppin'.

She has dishonored their dead son.

18 posted on 02/05/2006 2:21:06 PM PST by DeaconNoGood
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To: Txsleuth

That love has come and gone. Cindy is like Kerry, she goes for the top gun, and Chavez is the president/dictator of a country, so she left Jesse for him.


19 posted on 02/05/2006 2:21:48 PM PST by benjibrowder ("America is always more secure when Freedom is on the march"-George Bush, Jan.31, 2006)
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To: Txsleuth
Jesse Jackson might get jealous...remember the picture of her hugging his back last year?

Do you mean the 'Stuck on Stupid' one? It was great.

20 posted on 02/05/2006 2:22:41 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who have dementia.)
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