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2005-08-17 Home Front: Politix

Scrappleface: Grieving Bush Protester Has No Exit Strategy 8/16/05

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Posted by GK 2005-08-17 15:14|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In truth, she probably doesn't. She's in over her head but doesn't realize it.

Posted by leader of the pack 2005-08-17 15:45|| 2005-08-17 15:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I feel sorry for her, although not for her ~~hangers-on~~ supporters. Her son's death has clearly wrecked her life beyond repair. I hope that when she finally gets over it, there will be something left to go home to.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-08-17 17:18|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-17 17:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Notice any similarities between Cindy and Jim Jones?
Speaknig of Cindy what ever happened to Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame. Who's more desperate for a victim to cling to MSM or the Dems.

Posted by macofromoc 2005-08-17 17:25|| 2005-08-17 17:25|| Front Page Top

#4 M: Notice any similarities between Cindy and Jim Jones?
Speaknig of Cindy what ever happened to Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame. Who's more desperate for a victim to cling to MSM or the Dems.

Big difference. Jim Jones got a bunch of people killed. This woman is just wrecking her own life - on live TV.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-08-17 17:32|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-17 17:32|| Front Page Top

#5 She's giving aid and comfort to the insurgents in Iraq by demanding a public apology for the war and an immediate withdrawl.

If you don't think that's killing people ....

Posted by anon 2005-08-17 18:44|| 2005-08-17 18:44|| Front Page Top

#6 anon: She's giving aid and comfort to the insurgents in Iraq by demanding a public apology for the war and an immediate withdrawl.

Aid and comfort means feeding and sheltering, not disagreeing with the war effort. Besides, she's already given to the war effort - the son she brought up at considerable expense is gone. I think we can ignore what she is saying in her unhinged state, but we cannot deny her the respect that is due to her as Casey Sheehan's mother. And I doubt the man himself, if he were still alive, would be comfortable with complete strangers vilifying his mother.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-08-17 19:39|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-17 19:39|| Front Page Top

#7 ZF - I really don't care her cost, her pain, anymore. Neither does she. She's in it for herself, her assinine worldview, and her politics. She's sucking the honor from her son, who obviously held different views, and she's guilty of flip-flopping for her Move-On friends' support. She will die a lonely forgotten death, unsurrounded by her family, who abhor her agenda and actions, and unloved by the media suckers trying to take a dig on Bush to allay their August boredom. She has no real friends, and I'm certainly not sympathetic. F*&k her

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-17 19:49|| 2005-08-17 19:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Cindy has become nothing but a tool used by the LLL. When she has been squeezed for all the useful value she has for them, she will be dumped on the waste heap of history. Sad, but it is her choice on how she acts.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-17 19:57|| 2005-08-17 19:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Zhang Fei, maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about... but it's pretty clear to me that she cares more about her politics than about her son.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2005-08-17 20:21|| 2005-08-17 20:21|| Front Page Top

#10 FG: ZF - I really don't care her cost, her pain, anymore. Neither does she. She's in it for herself, her assinine worldview, and her politics. She's sucking the honor from her son, who obviously held different views, and she's guilty of flip-flopping for her Move-On friends' support. She will die a lonely forgotten death, unsurrounded by her family, who abhor her agenda and actions, and unloved by the media suckers trying to take a dig on Bush to allay their August boredom. She has no real friends, and I'm certainly not sympathetic. F*&k her

This isn't about politics and it's not about saying "fuck you" to a bereaved mother who also happens to be a complete stranger. It's about a woman who has become completely unhinged because of the death of her son. You may see this as some kind of movie where some rich celebrity joins some silly cause on a whim. But this woman is not a celebrity. And she isn't doing this on a whim - her son - the fruit of her loins - is no longer of this world. She is not some rich celebrity but an ordinary woman. Where is her means of support? How will she feed herself once this whole mess is over? Without the war, her son would still be alive and her existence would still be whole. Her son's death is the proximate cause of her misery, but the problem is that nothing will bring him back.

Beating on her is the equivalent of butt-stroking a dead terrorist's mother in the jaw (after you just killed her son) while she is cursing you out. Except in this case, Cindy Sheehan is one of our own, and her son died fighting for our side. It's one thing to dump on Jane Fonda, but quite another to dump on a dead soldier's mother. I don't agree with her, but I am certainly not going to cuss her out.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-08-17 20:35|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-17 20:35|| Front Page Top

#11 ima kinda hope ZF is merciful and right. But I'll bet we see Cindy on Lifetime movies for 4 years, then at the DNC, then guess starin with Babs in little fun raisers

Posted by half 2005-08-17 20:48|| 2005-08-17 20:48|| Front Page Top

#12 ZF, while I respect deeply your compassion, you are making some rather large assumptions. It may be the case that her life was whole prior to her son's death - but at least one relative reportedly has said in public that Casey enlisted and re-enlisted in part to escape her.

I don't know what was true about that. I *do* know that since then she has had Moveon.org's PR firm working for her at someone else's expense, she has written truly hatefuly things about Israel, she is courting publicity and using her son to maintain her fleeting celebrity.

As to supporting herself, she apparently has driven away her husband and his side of the family permanently -- and has arrogated to herself their right to grieve over Casey's death too.

Unhinged? Her politics reportedly were far left well before the war. Her alignment with and use by the MoveOn.orgs and the leftwing establishment is neither an accident nor something forced on her.

With great respect for the pain of losing a child - something I know a little of personally - I submit that she is not grieving for a deep loss but rather indulging her ego in ways that are deeply hurtful to the rest of Casey's family.

Posted by anon 2005-08-17 21:08|| 2005-08-17 21:08|| Front Page Top

#13 And, to this country as well.

Posted by anon 2005-08-17 21:09|| 2005-08-17 21:09|| Front Page Top

#14 In a discussion a little while ago, Mrs. Bobby says she'll never get over the death of her son. Mrs. Bobby worried about out son in Iraq for six months, and she thought (at the time he went, last fall) that Al Qaim was safe!

I appreciate her pain, but not as much as Mrs. Bobby, but we both agree (I think) that shes's a fool/tool, and not doing her son's memory any favors.

Some things might not be as simple as they seem...

Posted by Bobby 2005-08-17 21:14|| 2005-08-17 21:14|| Front Page Top

#15 But curse the fools who are using her as a tool!

Posted by Bobby 2005-08-17 21:15|| 2005-08-17 21:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Here's where it comes down for me: I have friends, loved ones in the box in Iraq right now. They watch the news and they see this woman and the left trying really hard to replicate Vietnam. It eats at them to think the country does not support their danger and sacrifices.

What Sheehan and the organized far-left are doing is to deliberately render their sacrifices and those made before them meaningless, purposeless and futile. And in the name of those I know and care for who have died, been wounded or faced the stress of combat, I am deeply ANGRY about that.

More angry than I will put into words here.

Posted by anon 2005-08-17 21:25|| 2005-08-17 21:25|| Front Page Top

#17 The real crime here is that the LLL will use anyone or anything to fit their agenda. It is the classic Left's The Ends Justify the Means. They care about nothing but one thing: stick it to the government and bring it down. It was that way in the 60s and it is that way now. We have an enemy in the 5th column just as evil and dangerous as the jihadis out yonder.

We are fighting a two front war.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-17 21:45|| 2005-08-17 21:45|| Front Page Top

#18 Don't go away mad, Cindy, just go away.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-17 21:59|| 2005-08-17 21:59|| Front Page Top

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