Attacks on Cindy Sheehan reveal a lot (Barf Alert)

Rocky Mountain News ^ | August 19, 2005 | Bill Johnson

[texan75010]

johnsonw@RockyMountainNews.com

[HungarianGypsy]

You were right about the barf alert. It sucks you in, because it's good until a third of the way down. Then, goes onto the anti-war stuff.

[Range Rover]

"I have seen them fall to absolute pieces when an Army general presents to them the American flag that seconds earlier had draped the coffin of their dead sons."

"These women, dear reader, somehow keep on living. Many do so in silence. Cindy Sheehan, clearly, is not one of them. "

There is a difference between grieving publicly and using your son's memory as a political soapbox and allying yourself with Lynne Stewart and the free Mumia MOVE crowd going so far as to publicly express your admiration and adolation for these "people" and appearing with them publicly. The MSM leads the sheep around by the nose by reporting the story without a full and unbiased background.

Ms. Sheehan, you've said that "America isn't worth dying for" well then perhaps you should find some country to emigrate to that is closer aligned to your politics and sensibilities. There are a few places I can think of that will be more to your liking.

[Lekker 1]

And doesn't whatever form of freedom and democracy that exists in 2005 America still give Cindy Sheehan the right to stand on the Crawford, Texas, roadside to confront our leadership?

You mean they arrested her??? Why am I always the last to find out?

[mhking]

Didn't touch it -- that's straight off of http://video.google.com/

[airborne]

Barf Alert is right!

There's so much leftist spin on this, I got nauseous just reading it!

[Lekker 1]

I want to interview Army Spc. Casey Sheehan. It would be interesting, to say the least, to hear his views on his mother, Cindy, on what she has been doing for two weeks down at the president's ranch in Texas and, more importantly, on what he makes of the increasing attacks on her for doing what she is doing. Ah, if such a thing were possible.

Well, Casey isn't available for the interview, but his father and siblings are.

[NickatNite2003]

..."If your mommie is a commie
Then ya gotta turn her in!"

:oD

[botsnack]

She should be immediately placed in Gitmo, sans trial, along with the rest of the terrorists she supports.

Nobody should be allowed to question the president or the US, especially during war time.

[FlipWilson]

Another lefty author realizing that the "grieving activist" is no longer getting a free pass ala the Joisey Girls.

[RedMonqey]

I need a spirit-guide.

"I got this far."

"Spirit-guides" imply American Indians. They had no problem dying for what they believed.

Unless you believe in the PC version of native Americans who were docile, nature loving hippies.


It is a good day to die.

[FlipWilson]

Gitmo?!? Sorry, I have to disagree with you there. Of course, you have the right to express that opinion, well, I think you do, but the author of the article would not.

[Republican Red]

I really hate that 60% of the people are against the war crud. The AP skewed that poll and everyone in the media knows it. They sampled 49% Democrats and 39% Republicans. Still the MSM including FOX still uses that poll as valid.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Something else in The Rocky Mountain News.

Sheehan politicizes grief

[traderrob6]

Since when is exposing the facts and the truth considered an attack?

[DogBarkTree]

I love the flaming emails Ive gotten from DU loser lurkers who dont like the comments Ive made about Cindy the kooky.

[Jaded]

She looks kinda like Miss Jane.

[Marine_Uncle]

Spirit Guide. What a jerk. Fool has no idea as to the warnings in the OT. At any rate. I am your spirit guide:

I joined the Army to get away from the quack I used to call mother when I was young. When she wouldn't get off my case I decided to reup to be amoung men and women who serve with honor. I did my best to stay away from her. She would drive any sane person nuts. Besides, she hated with all here heart what I learned to hold dear. Honor, commitement, service to my country, respect for authority, tolerance of political affiliations. I served with honor till the day the good Lord decided to take me to HIM. Now I am at rest.

[massgopguy]

Illie weenie, chile beanie.

[Michael Bluth]

"Spc. Sheehan and other now-dead soldiers like him, we've been told over and over, died in our country's noble quest to export freedom and democracy to an oppressed and brutalized Middle Eastern nation.

You cannot export elsewhere what you do not currently possess.

And doesn't whatever form of freedom and democracy that exists in 2005 America still give Cindy Sheehan the right to stand on the Crawford, Texas, roadside to confront our leadership?"

Oh, PUH-LEEEEEEZE.

What a Drama Queen.

So the fact that someone cannot "confront our leadership" means that America "does not possess" freedom and democracy??!!

Give me a break.

I have lived in Washington, DC since 1974, and I have never -- not once -- been permitted to go to the White House and demand to see Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, or Bush in order to "confront" our leadership. Never.

Bill Johnson ought to go see how easy it is to "confront" the leadership of any major (or, for that matter, minor) country. He'd quickly conclude that no country on earth has "freedom and democracy".

The guy's a loon.