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2005-08-11 Home Front: Politix

Cindy Sheehan family calls on her to stand down.

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Posted by RG 2005-08-11 15:49|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Proves she is a dumb tool.
Her 15 minutes is up.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-11 16:27|| 2005-08-11 16:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I was listening to the radio this afternoon - NPR? one of those kinds of shows and they made no mention of this - only a audio clip of Bush saying he respects her right to speak her mind.

Guess they want to get as much mileage out of it as possible before it goes away. On the way home, there was another story about the same thing - no mention - but I got home before it was over so I suppose there was a one in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance that they mentioned this.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-11 18:10|| 2005-08-11 18:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Family is split. Some are against, others support her. What we have here is a consequence of that old Sixites New Left mantra: The Personal is the Political.

Imagine its 1942 and Americans, during a time of war, speaking in public about their Commander in Chief and their country in the manner this woman speaks daily.

Would not have happened in part because there were certain things, like calling your President a liar, a warmonger, and blaming him for killing your child, that were beyond the pale. Public and media would have resoundingly rejected such an individual as unhinged and un-American.

Mrs. Sheehan's pain should be personal and not the basis to dictate to a sitting President during wartime (or anytime) what policies must be adopted. However, with the advent of "the Personal is the Political", this is what we get.

Posted by Glolusing Flereth5459 2005-08-11 19:23|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-08-11 19:23|| Front Page Top

#4
Imagine its 1942 and Americans, during a time of war, speaking in public about their Commander in Chief and their country in the manner this woman speaks daily.

Maybe not that late, but in the late '30s, her type were around. I've been reading a book titled "Under Cover", about a guy who spent four years posing as a member of various fascist groups before WWII. There's a passage in it that *screams* Cindy Sheehan.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-11 22:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-11 22:50|| Front Page Top

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