Posted on 05/13/2007 2:32:09 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Tonasket, Wash.
In brief: Activist Cindy Sheehan cancels festival speech
May 12, 2007
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan canceled her scheduled visit today to a peace festival in Tonasket, Wash., an organizer said on Friday.
"She has to be in Washington, D.C., on Sunday and didn't pencil in enough time," said Jere Gillespie, whose husband, Rick, is president of the Okanogan chapter of the national Veterans for Peace.
Gillespie said a spokesperson for Sheehan called late Friday to cancel and offer regrets. She was to have flown into Wenatchee on Friday evening and continued on to Tonasket, about 20 miles from the Canadian border, by car.
The round-trip would have meant 30 hours of travel for 30 minutes in Tonasket, Gillespie said.
Sheehan, whose son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in 2004, rose to prominence when she camped outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch in August 2005.
In Tonasket, she was to have spoken to the fourth annual Okanogan Peace Festival with fellow peace activists Craig and Cindy Corrie. The Corries' daughter, Rachel, was killed in the Gaza Strip in 2003, while trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home.
The Corries will speak at today's event as scheduled, Gillespie said.
TRANSLATION: You're not worth my time.
I’m not sure she and her friends would have gotten out of the Okanogan Valley alive. It’s not the part of Washington state that one associates with the Left. The locals would have run them over with their horses.
Rachel Corrie, now that’s a blast from the recent past.
Not worth the effort indeed, but I was hoping Cindy would run for a Congressional seat. THAT’s what she should focus on, just my opinion.
Cindy and Rachel, retarded birds of a feather.
Cindy Sheehan was for the speech, before she was against it.
I'm truly aghast that someone can be so stupid to think they can stop a bulldozer and then be run over by it.
I'm truly sorry the Corries raised such a moron.
Not enough cameras and national liberal press?
Holy carbon credits, Batman, couldn’t she have phoned it in?
Stupid girl was on a mission and she thought the bulldozer operator would stop for her. He might not have even seen her or he might not have cared. I guess we will never know which.
St. Rachel, Patron Saint of the Perpetually Pressed...
BAWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
All that self-esteem could not stop a D9...
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