Posted on 05/29/2007 5:48:10 PM PDT by RDTF
Cindy Sheehan is going out the way she came in, with a symbolic gesture widely covered by the mainstream media. A Google News search of her name showed more than 500 articles about her announcement yesterday that she was resigning as the “face” of the anti-war movement.
Much less a typical press release and more a zigzagging screed, her letter of resignation, which she sent to Daily Kos, is titled “Good Riddance Attention Whore
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Sheehan also slapped the anti-war movement on her way out, writing, “I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.”
Division within anti-war movements is nothing new, which Sheehan knows—she helped foster some of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Big gesture? Sounds like something a suicide bomber would say. Someone put this woman under psychiatric evaluation.
I get she’s bitching because she wasn’t always the center of everyone’s attention and when people called her out on it, her poor little feelings got hurt. This happens when people think they are the center of the universe, which she pretty much did.
It was never a peace movement. it was a Communist initiated antiAmerican war movement. It was decidedly pro-Palestinian war to the point of even defending the use of suicide bombers as underclass people using the only weapons they have, their bodies (sob, cry).
I guess what she released today was Opus I.
Guaranteed, she will keep coming back... each time re-stating at length "Why I left", when in fact she is simply never going away.
Nah, she is done and will be nothing but a footnote in history. The communist used the idiot for there gains and now they dont need her anymore.
She ain’t coming back until the smoke from the “financial difficulties” concerning the property at Crawford dissipates.
If she really does leave the country it won’t be because President Bush is such a poopy-head; it’ll be because the indictment for fraud is on its way.
I just don’t think she every understood the sort of people that she got herself mixed up with. *Many* of them are decent folks who truly oppose violence and all that. I’ll respect them for that. But the people who rise to the leadership are the most dedicated to a cause...and quite often their cause has nothing or little to do with the membership’s beliefs. I think she felt she truly found a way to put her pain to good use...and got involved with people that could care less about that sort of thing...but just with how it played in the papers.
Wish that hero warrior could have had a mother with some American character!!! What a waste of everyone's time and attention!!!
The fact is... She's no different from all the other celebrities, from Jesse Ventura, to Arnold Schwartzenrenegger and yes... even Rudy Giulani for that matter. These are not "statesmen or women!" These are bad self-obsessed jokes on the MN, CA and American people!!!
Yea, me too.........
“MoveOn.org, a liberal group that is politically to the right of Code Pink,”
Now that is a hot one.
Texas war-protest group faces its own conflictBy Angela K. Brown
Associated Press
EVAN VUCCI / Associated Press
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan at the Crawford Peace House in November 2005. A woman with rights to its name threatens legal action because the group is still operating. CRAWFORD, Texas - With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action, and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush’s adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.
The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member who now has rights to the name is threatening legal action because the group continues operating.
Sara L. Oliver and some others are calling for a state investigation as to why only $14,700 is now in its bank account, saying tens of thousands donated during Cindy Sheehan’s 2005 war protest were unaccounted for.
“There are people who have said: ‘Don’t say anything, because you’ll hurt the peace movement,’ “ Oliver said. “But if the peace movement isn’t pure, and transparent, and holy as it can be at its heart, then it’s just like George Bush: lying, thieving, conniving, backstabbing . . . .”
John Wolf, who cofounded the Crawford Peace House in 2003 in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, white-clapboard house just across the railroad tracks from downtown, denied allegations of wrongdoing. He said the claims were by only a few people and would not hurt the work of the Crawford Peace House, which is planning a fourth-anniversary celebration today.
He said the Peace House has an accountant, and has kept diligent records, which soon will be posted in its Web site. He said most of the $285,000 raised in 2005 was spent on food, van and bus rentals, gas, and a large tent for the rallies at several events.
“All of this money was given to us to take care of people who came here, and that’s what we did,” Wolf said Friday. “If somebody has fantasies, I can’t affect that.”
The Crawford Peace House bank account had only $3 in early August 2005, but Sheehan’s monthlong vigil in ditches off the road leading to Bush’s ranch brought thousands of people and donations from across the country. Because the rural campsite was small, most protesters spent much of their time at the Peace House, which also became headquarters for Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq in 2004.
Wolf said he planned to turn in a franchise-tax report next week - nearly a year late - to the Texas Comptroller’s Office to regain the Peace House’s corporate charter. The report was not filed sooner because the house’s volunteer director was overwhelmed with other tasks and was confused about whether the paperwork had to be filed if no taxes were owed, he said.
Losing a corporate charter means the board members themselves are liable for any debts the entity might owe, the Comptroller’s Office said.
Wolf said the Texas Secretary of State’s Office made a mistake last month in allowing Oliver to file documents forming a nonprofit corporation called the Crawford Peace House.
Wolf said the Crawford Peace House that he cofounded still exists as an unincorporated entity, as well as a religious group, so Oliver is violating state statutes that prevent an organization from having the same or similar name as an existing one.
The Secretary of State’s Office was closed Friday for the Easter holiday, and no one could be reached for comment.
Wolf said the Peace House also was applying to become a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Oliver, who said she left the group in 2005 after encountering hostility when she tried to help secure grants for it, said she doesn’t want to form a counter group. But she said she would allow some current members to use the name, as long as the house director and leaders account for the money and resign.
Sandra Row, another former member, said up to 75 people had left the peace group over concerns about financial issues or hurt feelings. She said she saw buckets of cash donations in the Peace House in the summer of 2005, some of which went to pay veterinarian bills for the cat living there. But some demonstrators who bought tents, lanterns and other supplies never got reimbursed, she said.
“You’ll never know how much money there is, because the cash is gone,” Row said.
Wolf said that he was not there every day but that the Peace House had receipts for all expenses.
Sheehan, whose name is listed on the 2005 franchise tax report as a Crawford Peace House board member, said Friday that she never was consulted about its financial matters and knows nothing about the current situation.
Sheehan said the matter would not hurt the peace movement or the weekend’s activities coinciding with Bush’s weekend ranch visit.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20070408_Texas_war-protest_group_faces_its_own_conflict.html
I don't care who wrote that, it's downright hilarious!
Like Frank Sinatra and Cher before him, she’ll do multiple Farewell Tours!
she’s resigning her very ugly ‘face’...
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