Posted on 08/15/2005 12:54:32 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A woman lost her son in Iraq and won't leave George W. Bush alone until he sees her. Who is she, and why is she stirring such emotion?
Cindy Sheehan, 48, is not a natural-born revolutionary. She speaks in a high, almost childlike voice. She says like as often as any teenager, as in, "This whole thing was like so freaking spur of the moment." When her supporters gather to discuss strategy, Sheehan is not to be found in the circle of beach chairs; she is 50 yards up the road, doing yet another interview, hugging yet another stranger. But here she is, the mother of Casey, 24, who died in Iraq last year, and now the central character in the strange, swirling protest she initiated two miles down the road from President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Sheehan is unflinching about why she's here. She says George W. Bush killed her son. She demands that U.S. troops come home now...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Does the Time magazine mention any of the mother's anti-semitic ourbursts? I thought so.
That is what I have heard. She will definately need her financiers to camp out there.
Back home in California, her family is imploding under its grief. Sheehan lost her job at Napa County Health and Human Services because of all her absences, she says. Husband Pat, 52, couldn't bear having Casey's things at home and put most of them in storage. "We grieved in totally different ways," Cindy says. "He wanted to grieve by distracting himself. I wanted to immerse myself." A car tinkerer, he added two 1969 VW Bugs to his collection recently and diverted some of his sorrow into them. The couple separated in June.
Daughter Carly, 24, wrote a poem that begins, "Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?" Surviving son Andy, 21, supports his mother in principle but recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her "to come home because you need to support us at home," he says. Casey's aunt Cherie Quartarolo e-mailed a California radio station last week to rebuke Cindy, writing, "She appears to be promoting her own personal agenda at the expense of her son's good name."
She seems to be a very cruel person. She needs a psychiatrist and needs to understand what she is doing to the rest of her family.
No antiSemitism mention and nothing mentioned about the actual physical threats she has made to our president. And she is planning to following him back to DC with he claque of protestors.
"She needs a psychiatrist"
Do most people with a left wing agenda?
"And she is planning to following him back to DC with he claque of protestors."
Well that confirms it: she's certifiably nuts.
There is a risk, though, that Sheehan's ideas will never stop spreading down the road. In 1965 a group of just 25 antiwar protesters demonstrated outside President Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch. Within a few years, the handful had turned into a movement
God willing, that won't happen.
Michael Savage says, "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!"
You are right about the pain of the Bush family due to Robin's Leukemia and death, at the tender age of three. Not your point, I know, but for the record Robin was the younger sister of George W. He was about seven when she died.
I just called my Republican Senator. Lip Service. Blah Blah. The issue is being discussed by Congress so they say.
I read that last paragraph earlier and it's just a little too unnerving to comment on! News sources say this sheehan woman is planning on following Bush back to the white house and will stay there indefinetly. Poor pathetic woman, winter is coming so she won't be out there much longer, then again, we're dealing with a left wing wacko so anything is possible.
That is correct. I had their ages reversed. Thanks.
Sheehan worked as a government employee with HHS? I think I can guess were she's always stood, politically.
No it isn't, the last paragraph reads:
A fair question. There is a risk, though, that Sheehan's ideas will never stop spreading down the road. In 1965 a group of just 25 antiwar protesters demonstrated outside President Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch. Within a few years, the handful had turned into a movement.
In 1965 the Walter and Dan's of the MSM dominated opinion because theirs were the only voices .... that horse doesn't ride anymore.
This lady will be gone from the headlines the first time there are 2 Florida shark attacks within 2 days of each other.
She said she and her husband separated a few months ago as a result of the war, and of her activism. Although she and her estranged husband are both Democrats, she said she is more liberal than he is, and now, more radicalized.
With Fenton Communications as her PR firm? Uh-huh. Yeah.
Maybe...she developed a crush on our President that day he gave her a little peck on the cheek...
Now she only wants to be with him for 10 more minutes...interesting concept you must agree...
Did I read that right? She has people asking her if they can sign their Social Security checks over to her? That's unAmerican.
I agree. She is obviously grieving in a very angry, bitter way--give her enough time on this course and everyone she knows will suffer from her bitter poison. It is unfortunate, so many have had terrible losses. I wonder what her comments were on 9/11 --for those who had no idea they were about to lose their loved ones. They could not plan at all. This woman's son went of his own free will to serve--he did and it cost him his life, one of the very real possibilities of war. What is her tirade saying to those who suffered loss on 9/11?
Let's see this woman showed up in a DC basement along with Joe Wilson for the rat only downing street memo BS hearings. And were suppose to believe anything she does is a spur of the moment thing.
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