Did the Cindy Sheehan vigil succeed?

Christian Science Monitor | August 29, 2005 | Linda Feldmann

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***..........Whether the Sept. 24-26 rally attracts a large mainstream turnout could have a dramatic impact on the future of antiwar activism - and how politicians of both parties respond. A central demand of the protest - immediate US withdrawal from Iraq - does not reflect the majority view of Americans, analysts note. Polls show about one-third of Americans hold that position [withdrawing]..........***

[Caipirabob]

AP would get a better/accurate reponse if they didn't poll traitors.

[MNJohnnie]

Pity for the Bush haters that about 45% or more of those polled here do not vote. Gee wonder why the Dinosaur Media gave up on the normal standard of LIKELY VOTER in the last 3 months? Couldn't be because they want the story line to be "Iraq's a quagmire and the people know it" could it? Again, look at the banSheehan's poll numbers. Sorry wacko fridge "Journalism Professors" but you dreaming if you think your Movon.org organized "vigils" represent an new "mainstreamness" for the Hate America First Left. When you can only get about 1000 people to show up at your protest in the heart of wacko anti-Americanism, Minneapolis, you are nowhere near significance.

[MNJohnnie]

Also note. This is the AP poll, the same one that told us all thru 2004 it was going to be "President Kerry" in a landslide. It would be more credible to quote a CBS poll then this garbage.

[ClaireSolt]

The last two weeks in August must be the absolute worst time to poll
Americans. I know from a career in direct sales that the only people home at this time are the completely broke. Anyone who has money is on vacation. so I look for these numbers to change.

[Dark Knight]

It was an incredible success. She single handedly:

Stopped the war

Brought peace to Iraq

Impeached President Bush

Re-empowered Saddam, the Benevolent, to be president elect again

And brought all the war dead back to life

She stopped to rest in order to be ready for Katrina.


Cindy Sheehan is a pathetic and sad mother. Casey Sheehan died trying to help the Iraqi people, Cindy knew he believed that. He voluntered to go on a rescue mission for his fellows. Cindy in her bizarre and extreme grief is willing to dishonor Casey's sacrifice.

At what cost? Her family...her her credibility...her job...her sanity?

And who is willing to use her? Code Pink...MoveOn.org...the usual suspects?

They are protesting at Walter Reed. Do they really support the troops?

DK

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***....Then, from Sept. 24 to 26, antiwar groups are organizing three days of events here in Washington, starting with a march and rally and culminating in what their website calls "mass nonviolent direction action and civil disobedience." Immediate withdrawal from Iraq is just one part of the agenda, which includes a call for "global justice" and protection of immigrants' rights and basic civil rights. ...***

They have to pull all their fringe groups together to make it look like a national movement.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The left needs someone to personalize their anti-war movement. They are good at finding useful idiots to camouflage their goals.

[Dark Knight]

I have a reply to "We support the troops but not the war."

Immediately ask: "How? What organizations, etc. have you personally helped with that help troops with their lives? Political or anti war groups do not count."

DK

[nina0113]

Recently, the Washington Post withdrew its co-sponsorship of the event, citing the potential that it could become politicized.

Man, I HATE walking, but I guess now I'm gonna have to.

[metesky]

It was a turning point, I think," says Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University

The Christian Science Monitor engages in wishful thinking here, quoting a rabid anti-Bushite.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great question!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

Who would ever accuse the Washington Post of being political.

The very idea is just too ludicrous!

They must protect their journalistic integrity.


LOL

[Casloy]

For Bush, there's bad political news as well: a Gallup poll, released last Friday, showing the lowest job-approval rating (40 percent) of his presidency

It's only bad news if he cares. Since Bush doesn't take polls to decide what decisions to make (so much different than he predecessor), he probably doesn't care what the poll numbers show. How did we govern ourselves before there were polls?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University

***...But if Sheehan's protest has reinvigorated the antiwar movement, so too has it exposed the central dilemma that people opposed to the war now face: What should America do about a war in which every option looks bad. Saying that we should stop the war raises all kinds of questions about what you mean, notes Todd Gitlin, the former Vietnam activist and Columbia Journalism School professor. "If you say withdraw, then how many? What pace? Starting when?" ...*** Salon

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Polls are tools.

They say, "Figures don't lie but liars can figure."

[BamaGirl]

Seriously.

And on a similar note -- WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT BUSH -- he's not running for re-election! Idiots! How stupid are they to waste their energy on him?

It's almost as though Bush became a target on purpose, to deflect the Left's hatred for other Republican candidates.

[Frenetic]

"Regardless of the fact that Sheehan did not get a face-to-face audience with Bush"

She already got a face to face with President Bush. Her twisted efforts are irrational, selfish and irresponsible...otherwise everything we've come to expect from the leftists.

[jmaroneps37]

"...the larger tableau of bad news for the US effort in Iraq, dominated by a US military death toll approaching the symbolically significant 2,000-person mark, and faltering Iraqi efforts to draft a broadly acceptable constitution."

Can't you just see this piece of crap salivating as she wrote this? "The symbolically significant 2,000-person mark" HAD to be an orgasmic moment.
This is a quisling at work.

[Old Grumpy]

Cindy's protest will be bolstered up when Al Sharpton and Martin Sheen arrive. GAG!