Poor Cindy Sheehan: It’s Not Easy Being a Has-Been
Just a few years back, she was the media’s darling. Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, led the anti-war charge against George W. Bush. Egged on by the mainstream media and left-wing activists eager to put a “face” to their cause, she camped out in front of Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. The entire situation became a media circus, with Sheehan at its epicenter. We saw her getting her hair cut at “Camp Casey,” saw her visiting her son’s grave with media flunkies in tow, and watched her get up close and personal with Hugo Chávez. Feted and celebrated, she could do no wrong; she held what has been called an “absolute moral authority card.”
So what exactly happened? Where is Sheehan today? She said she was quitting public life back in 2007 when, according to her post on Daily Kos, her cutting ties with the Democratic Party got her “trashed on such ‘liberal blogs’ as the Democratic Underground. Being called an ‘attention whore’ and being told ‘good riddance’ are some of the more milder [sic] rebukes.” Just a year later, though, she tried to unseat Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps having had a taste of the limelight, she couldn’t help herself. But, as one could have predicted, she was beaten handily by San Fran Nan — receiving less than 18 percent of the vote.
You might think that Sheehan had given up entirely and gone back to the quiet, placid existence that most Americans live, but you’d be wrong. It’s just that the left and the media have finished with her. Having wrung every ounce of moral authority and celebrity out of the poor woman that they could, they’ve moved on to greener pastures. It’s an era of hope and change, you know, and now that The One™ is in office, Sheehan’s brand of anti-war activism is no longer a welcome diversion — it’s more of an unwelcome distraction. About 50 people joined Sheehan at a protest outside of Bush’s Dallas home in June, but few beyond local media noticed. Why Dallas? Quoth Sheehan:
We’re not at the White House because it takes a ton of money to get there, and there’s a depression caused by the guy who lives down that street.
No mention of Obama’s hand in our current economic downturn? Color me surprised. Yet I have to wonder if the reason for “no money” has less to do with the current economic climate and more to do with left-wing groups no longer wishing to finance her protest junkets in Washington, D.C.
“The moral to this story?”
The moral of the story is not to be accused of weird sexual behavior by members of your own family. Cindy Sheehan allegedly had sex with numerous men she met over the Internet. Virtually overnight the George Soros people dropped her like the proverbial hot potato. They apparently thought there was enough substance to the charges that Cindy was pushed out into the cold night without much hesitation. It’s kind of difficult, needless to add, for Cindy to live up to the Great Mom persona when she might be an out and out hussy. Was Sheehan a victim of a vicious slander campaign? We outsiders obviously don’t know the facts. However, we do know this: her leftist comrades did not remain at her side.
“Beware high pedestals, because the fall from grace can be a doozy.”
And the dead cat bounce from hitting the ground will hurt.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
R.I.P. Cindy Shehag. Your 15 minutes of fame are up. Way up.
This column gives her more attention than she deserves. Just let her go quietly back under the rock she crawled out from.
“And this little piggie went ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home.”
Cindy Sheehan was a joke, even to those on the left. Thankfully, to those on the right, she’s not a has-been – she’s a never-was. The right never gave credence to her voice because she’s a loon. If you’ve ever heard her speak, you’d see that she’s about 51 cards short of a full deck, although she does have both joker cards.
It’s not surprising that The One is breaking another campaign promise. Remember? He said he was going to bring the troops home as soon as he got into office. Not only has he not done that in Iraq, but he’s escalated the troop count in Afghanistan.
Why anyone votes for a Democrat is beyond me. They couldn’t tell the truth even when Americans’ freedoms depend on it.
There’s nothing more pathetic than a useful idiot off her meds who realizes that she is no longer useful and has been thrown away by the leftists that used her. My guess is there’s a suicide gesture coming. She will then be useful again as a prop for ObamaCare.
Maybe she’ll go the way of so many other child stars and become another useless drug addled piece of tabloid fodder.
Talk about useful idiots.
dude, this article was totally unnecessary
You would think that she would just fade away as her cause is really over as far as most of the country is concerned. I am surprised she is able to get any money for all these trips all over the country. She might do better to oppose the health care bill at least people and the media are paying attention to that! But she won’t do that because she is a liberal. Glad to know she is having difficulty having her voice heard.
Andy Warhol famously observed that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
Cindy Sheehan’s 15 minutes lasted only as long as the MSM needed her to help unseat a Republican President they despised and a Republican majority in Congress they loathed even more. (Presidents may make speeches, but “everybody knows” that Congress runs everything.) Once those two purposes were accomplished, Sheehan was no longer useful. Q.E.D.
As for the left’s sudden silence about the war on terror (excuse me, I mean “Foreign Contingency Operations”), Heinlein said it best, in “To Sail Beyond The Sunset”, when he observed that an uncomfortably large percentage of our political leaders are “murderous fools” who cannot be trusted with the lives of our military personnel. He was speaking of Congress, but the axiom is applicable to virtually the entire “progressive” end of the political spectrum, whether the MSM wants to acknowledge that fact or not.
Just look at their track record.
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It is obvious how insincere the protests of the Progressive Socialists were during the Bush Presidency, especially their anti-war rhetoric. The situation is the same, we merely have a Progressive Socialist Administration.
Do we hear demands for an exit strategy or an exact date to bring our troops home? Hell no! Do you expect propaganda media to use the same strategy against their benefactor?
Sheehan was manipulated by the propaganda bureaus until she no longer served a purpose; however, her message is the same, the only variable is the administration. Before you waste too much sympathy on her, remember that the American Public was manipulated by the propaganda bureau pimps in the same manner that Sheehan was manipulated.
Why does the Left continue the “Damned wars” that were declared lost by Harry Reid? Time, too much time has been invested. The wars now belong to the Village Idiot who can only read the message of the teleprompter. All the exit strategies have now been forgotten as we are bogged down in difficult situations. Fearless Reader now owns the wars and the telepropmpter is mainly programed with Domestic Socialism and plans to consolidate the SEIU Goons and Acorn Thugs.
After Fearless Reader apologizes to foreign leaders and enemies, he seems to have nothing more to contribute, better to go home and be overly concerned about the health care of illegal aliens. That is why the propaganda bureaus want Sheehan to go away, she reminds Americans of the utterly ridiculousness of the present situation and how selfrighteous indignation concerning the war was only drama to discredit Bush and to set up the election of a fool.
I have genuine sympathy for Cindy Sheehan over the loss of her son Casey.
That said, she was always something of a “media whore,” long before the left tired of her. Her son, after all, was not drafted into military service. He volunteered for it.
More important than that is the fact that he re-enlisted — specifically to return to the fray in the MIddle East. It was during his second tour of service there (one that he opted for, knowing full well the dangers) that he lost his life.
Casey Sheehan was not exploited by President George W. Bush, as the media (and his mother) would have us believe. He willingly, and proudly, served in Iraq. Though her grief is understandable, Cindy’s use of her son as a political pawn is not. Neither is it justifiable.
Casey Sheehan served proudly and honorably. He gave “the last full measure of devotion.” And the truth is this: No one — not even his mother — has the right to speak for him.
See: Speak for Yourself http://emmeffemm.com/id19.html
President Obama to Sheehan: “We appreciate your past efforts. However, since we are now in power, we will greatly appreciate your getting out of the way. Any attention you now garner, will work against the cause. Please shut up and step aside on your own or we will remove you. Remember, we are from Chicago……MUUUUHAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA!
Cindy Sheehan is right.
Unfortunately our attention is fixed on health care right now. A little patience will pay off.
The plight of the soldiers they said they cared so much about a mere three or four years ago has been abandoned for the all-important task of expansion of government and the nanny state. Priorities are priorities and Cindy Sheehan seems to have been left off the memo’s distribution list. I suppose, though, that she should be given credit for consistency — I mean, we haven’t heard Harry Reid tell us lately that the “war is lost.”
I suppose this post makes sense to the writer. She’s apparently criticizing Sheehan for sticking to her guns, while criticizing the left for not sticking to theirs. In places where people are able to understand multi-syllabic words, that’s known as schadenfreude. But it must be a pyrrhic victory, having supported the regime that put the troops in danger in the first place, and being a fan of the mendacious actors spreading disinfo about health care. You’ve hurt Obama, but the hilarious part to me is how the Republican numbers haven’t changed. As much as you’ve made people doubt Obama with your lies, they’d probably prefer almost anything to another Republican administraion. Its like a losing marathon runner throwing rocks at the winner approaching the tape, hoping to prevent him from achieving a record. Bad form, useless, nihilistic. Welcome to the Republican party, proud losers in 10.
So, when St. Cindy shows up in Martha’s Vinyard, are the Chicago thugs going to crack her skull? I would not be surprised if she gets roughed up by them. Wouldn’t be unhappy about it, either.
Fox News should do a segment on the complete lack of coverage she’s getting now that The Won is in office. Especially after gibson’s “enough already” comment.
Not that her 15 minutes are up- her usefulness as a tool by the Democrats are also up. They do not dare unleash her on Obama as it might hurt his already fragile poll numbers. War is only bad if it is a Republican running it.
She needs to slide into oblivion. I have no sympathy for the woman dishonoring her son’s beliefs and sacrifice for a personal agenda. The left doesn’t care about the troops or the lives lost of both troops and civilians. For them they are simply a mechanism for political leverage.
Cindy Sheehan has been booted out of the liberal pantheon of previously enshrined “useful idiots”. No longer useful to the liberal cause, she is now merely an idiot in their eyes. Sadly, for her, this is a brutal and tragic result.
What Cindy was doing was not in keeping with Casey’s actions of
re-enlisting, knowing exactly what he was in, and going back to…
Maybe the media attention intoxicated her..if so, she must have one hell of a hangover…
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“words just words”…
This is hilarious. Betsy McCaughey brings the bill out with her to the Daily Show. When asked to read the part that “mandates” end of life counseling, she can’t seem to bring herself to actually read that part, even though she flips to the page. He gives her every opportunity to read it and prove her claim and she won’t do it. At one point, she closes the book, even though it took her minutes to find the page in the first place. No highlighting, no post its. A prop she thought she wouldn’t have to use.
Stewart easily makes her look like a liar. And not a very good one. To his credit, almost anyone could have.
Oops. Forgot the link. I know you people are anxious for it.
http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3247119&ref=fpblg
Cindy didn’t buy her son a headstone for 18 months?
Whatta mom.
It’s just that the left and the media have finished with her. Having wrung every ounce of moral authority and celebrity out of the poor woman that they could, they’ve moved on to greener pastures. It’s an era of hope and change, you know, and now that The One™ is in office, Sheehan’s brand of anti-war activism is no longer a welcome diversion — it’s more of an unwelcome distraction.
I knew they’d dump Cindy when her usefulness had passed, whatever Leftist organizations were sponsoring her, paying for her to rant in Spain, hug Oogoe Chavez, Jesse Jackson, camp out in Texas, whatever…
This is absolutely the way Leftists operate, when your usefulness is passed, you’re toast. Their much bandied about “compassion” is about as thin as tissue paper.
And speaking of the notion of usefulness being past, I am reminded of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s theorizing on who should get the highest level & quality of “healthcare”, definitely not the olde folks…
Yesterday, Obama opined that he was declared down & out at one point during the campaign.
“Obama’s lost his mojo,’ you remember all that?”
I’d say Obama’s mojo, uh, MoHo, is still working
(If Media Matters is paying MoHo more than 50¢/hour, they’re not getting their money’s worth)
The left comes in and goes strait to changing the subject when their position is untenable. It’s a bitch when THE ONE changes tack on his core positions when he moves from candidate to President.
I think the Right should start using her, kind of like this article has done to show the hypocrisy of the anti-war movement. We should trumpet her actions and her anti-war message. Use her to remind the Left why they were so mad at Bush, since The One hasn’t done his promise to bring the troops home. Who knows, maybe it will fracture the Democratic Party even more than it already is making for easier pickings come 2010 and 2012.
Yay, let’s continue to mock a mother of a fallen US soldier, y’know for nostalgia sake.
I can tell people are really getting their rocks off on this. It’s pretty nauseating.
After the 2010 elections there will be a great number of Democrat house members who do not support Queen Nancy that will join the “What happened?” club (along with Cindy Sheehan). They are simply useful tools.
I’m sorry for Cindy, suffering the loss of her son. Likely unhinged from grief, she became a tool of the left and found some relief from the sorrow in ranting the mantras of liberalism, and perhaps in the arms of strange men who saw an advantage and took it.
How do I know? Because I had parents who behaved like Cindy…and I came to understand that the left is simply ruthless and completely debauched in their obsession for power and control of America’s great unwashed. It is their religion.
That “great unwashed” would be an unfortunate us.
Cindy, say hello to the real media. The media that uses issues like a dog trainer uses snacks on his dogs. That massages issues and people to it’s own ends, always some mindless variant of centralized power, which as history shows is at it’s best, imperfect. The worst and everything else in between is best left untouched.
But experience, so crucial to normal people, is unwanted in the elevated circles of our media.
Like old underwear you’ve been used and discarded and didn’t have the minimal brains to see what others could.
You have been, in other words, flushed.
#8: “dude, this article was totally unnecessary.”
Dude, you misunderstand. OK, so she lost a son in a war that never should have been waged. OK, so we sent our troops into Iraq without any plan to get them out. OK, so the insurgency took us by surprise. OK, so we didn’t have enough troops (but denied it, initially) and those we had didn’t have proper armor. OK, OK, OK! — but are those any reasons for that damned woman to shoot her mouth off?
Anon #28, Cindy Sheehan, as mother of Casey Sheehan, was royally PO’ed when her son defied her and opted to go to Iraq instead of taking mommy’s advice and heading for Canada.
Casey Sheehan had ever right to make his own, independent decision.
It’s not mocking the mother of a fallen soldier, it’s mocking a very naive woman who is only now barely grokking how she was used by Bush haters & Leftists.
(over & out)
In the MSM’s 6-year war against the Bush administration, it found – actually created by lavish attention and promotion – two fine clubs with which to beat Bush 24/7. One was the righteously-distraught Cindy Sheehan, whose initial sympathetic meeting with Bush suddenly wasn’t enough. The other was the glib green Senator Obama, the perfect anti-Bush symbol.
With the eager help of the MSM, the latter displaced Bush in the Presidency. Needing no further clubbing of GWB, Sheehan was discarded. There was no further use for that idiot by the MSM, and we won’t see much of her again.
@ 15
“She’s apparently criticizing Sheehan for sticking to her guns, while criticizing the left for not sticking to theirs.”
Yo, Moho, at it again?
Let me spell this out for you. Though disagreeing with Sheehan, the author admits that at least she’s been consistent in her message, unlike the hypocritical left-wing anti-war protesters, who, upon having a Democrat President, have lost interest in protesting the war.
Explain to me this: When Bush said we must do a gradual drawdown, he was protested.
When Obama says we must do a gradual drawdown (breaking his campaign promise) he is applauded.
If the war policy hasn’t changed (we even have the same Defense Secretary), why have the protests stopped? Were the protests anti-war, or merely anti-Bush?
“Bush’s Wars” = An evil that must be fought
“Obama’s Wars” = Absolute silence
Some may see the article as schadenfreude. I see it as pity for a poor fool that got used by the left, then tossed overboard. The main issue for me is not Sheehan, but how her story represents the hypocrisy of the “noble” left.
Dear Teabaggers,
Please take a long hard look at Cindy Sheehan.
She is your future.
Once the GOP is done exploiting you as useful pawns to further their own agenda, they’ll cast you off, marginalize you, and finally disown you and look the other way as the mainstream media and liberal journalists/blogs skewer you, discredit you and raise all kinds of scurrilous rumors about your personal lives.
In the end, you’ll tumble into oblivion, and whatever noble goal you were originally trying to achieve will be eclipsed by a grossly exaggerated and slanderous cartoon image constructed by the media and your opponents.
23. Delia wrote:
Cindy didn’t buy her son a headstone for 18 months?
Whatta mom.
Peter writes: It is my understanding she would not even have to. The military buys and prepares all headstones for combat troops killed in the line of duty. That’s why all modern military headstones in Vet cemetaries (and some town and private ones) all look alike. All Sheehan would have had to do was request one from the DoD.
Given that her celebrity, or notoriety, was based upon what does not stand up to the test of time, I am as surprised that she is no longer in the limelight, as I am that the sun rose in the east this morning.
32. bibio44 wrote:
OK, so we sent our troops into Iraq without any plan to get them out.
Peter writes: So tell me Bibio, the great thinker with the IQ of 44, as such a great military tactician, what was the plan to get the troops out when the US entered WWII?
What was the plan to get the troops out when the US and the UN sent troops in to defend South Korea. (Hint: US and UN troops are still IN Korea!)
Casey Sheehan, like most of our brave troops, went into battle know exactly what he was getting into. He re-upped! He specifically wanted to go back to combat, knowing, like all of us who served and continue to serve today, that there is a chance of not coming home at the end of the day.
Who are you to second guess him?
Anonymous, your point in #36 shows that you have no answer to those who attend tea parties. One, you refuse to see where they are coming from, because if you did, you would bestow credence upon those you demonize. Which is the last
thing you want to do.
Another useful idiot cast aside.
Wake up Cindy, they used you like a $10 hooker.
The underside of the bus is awfully crowded.
#36 up there hasn’t a clue. See the Tea Party folks are not looking for acceptance from the establishment. They intend to make their own way.
They don’t need a messiah’s grace to be legit.
They have a real spine.
So #36 crawl back under your rock and wait for your alligator to eat you, which it will.
Libs are such chicken s**ts.
I don’t think she will find the brown shirts she is sure to meet in Marthas Vineyard as accomadating as the citizens of Texas
What the Left is unable to comprehend
Whenever critical voices about Obama and his coterie are emerging the unison reply is –
Yeah, but the Republicans… the Republican parties… 8 years…
Those people who fought against Nazism and its brother, against Communism –
were not members of any party nor carriers of any particular ideology instead, there were a hodgepodge mix of democratic individuals and groups opposing the totalitarian regimes. Our dilemma is that we either resist the Marxist enslavement by the Statist Left or we succumb to be ruled by the scums of earth like Soros, Axelrod, Dead Fish, Acorn and their clans.
Our protest has nothing at all to do with the Republican Party per se; -don’t be that dense as to believe that this country unanimously adore and worship The Joker, a.k.a. Soetero-Hussein.
Not even his own name is an established fact, to boot.
41. tommyd: “#36 up there hasn’t a clue. See the Tea Party folks are not looking for acceptance from the establishment. They intend to make their own way.
They don’t need a messiah’s grace to be legit.
They have a real spine.”
If you intended to “make your own way”, then why did you use Fox News to promote your tea parties? Is Fox News not the establishment?
The only reason anyone is paying attention to the tea party movement is because the mainstream establishment has decided to cover it. Once they decide that you guys are old news, it’s over.
Leave her alone. She lost a son and our complaints are not with those who honestly oppose the war, even if they’re really weird. Sheehan obviously opposes the war for whatever loopy reasons, but at least she’s consistent in her opposition.
The harsh comments should be directed to those who cynically used her, especially Maureen Dowd, who granted Sheehan “moral authority” when it was convenient and now treats her like someting that crawled off the living room rug.
MOHO/Anonymous…I think that it’s very important to continue to focus on the craven actions of the left during the war. Jesse MacBeth, The Baghdad diarist, and of course Sweet Little Barry. And while we’re at it Moho, you’re now my buddy. I think I’m going to remind you every single day, just like I did your buddy Jharp, that your Messiah got his start in politics inhaling on a slumlord’s cigar, polishing his zipper, et etc. And his actions during the war were just about on that level morally. So! to Recap…your messiah, went from turning tricks for a slumlord to being the chief trick of the left. Have a nice day.
Cindy was only a useful idiot to the left. They used her up, and now they’ve spit her out. She’s coming to a very painful realization of that fact – and an-in-her-face lesson on how corrupt Nancy Pelosi really is.
Show’s how despicable the left is that they would so take advantage of a grieving mother. She was nothing but a pawn to them.
If you intended to “make your own way”, then why did you use Fox News to promote your tea parties? Is Fox News not the establishment?
It is not – it’s a mere cable network, a small fraction of the size of the MSM. And since the ‘mainstream’ networks, the NYT, LAT, PBS, NPR etc, all refuse to cover the tea parties as news, Fox News is the last honest broker standing, and that’s where you see them.
#44..Good job changing the subject. You leftist cultist are well trained.
Sure Fox News has covered the tea parties because they are the only center-right national news outlet. The other outlets have basically ignored this movement. As follows is todays electronic MSM delivering news:
ABC – Liberal Democrats
NBC – Liberal Democrats
CBS – Liberal Democrats
CNN – Liberal Democrats
MSNBC – Ultra Liberal Democrats
PBS – Taxpayer subsidized Liberal Democrats
FNC – Conservative/Traditionalist Republicans
Wow…Now thats what I call fair and balanced for a national media, especially being that conservatives outnumber liberals 2 to 1.
Cindy Sheehan was used by the liberal left to further their own agenda. Unfortunately for Cindy, they desperately want her to go away now. Any further highlighting of the war by Cindy further highlights ANOTHER of Obama’s failed campaign promises. Heaven forbid she mention the economy. The liberals will have her right up there next to Sarah Palin. Poor gullible Cindy. She actually thought the liberal left had a heart.
I have to admit to enjoying watching the liberal death spiral. Sort of like watching the Wicked Witch of the West melting.
There is a point where schadenfreude becomes embarrassment for the person in the headlights, and I think I’m about there w/re to Ms. Sheehan.
It would be nice to think she’ll experience a “teachable moment” in here somewhere and figure out that the left never did care a hoot about her. But she truly seems pretty dense and lost in her own world. So the commentary is actually on the behavior of the PR-machine-left, not on her.
I disagree with the commenter who said this article is unnecessary. There are some people are just attaining reality-based consciousness w/re to the left, and this is a helpful illustration for them.
Watch to see how the obama Chicago machine handles her at Martha’s Vineyard this weekend. I have a feeling she may have bruises and need kleenex before it’s over.
Fine Vivo then go and join Cindy you can take a few cans of beans and some bottled water and plastic to make a tent out of and hang out with her. Hey you might even get to be on TV. Then you could give more of your great thoughts on how this country ought to be according to you.
Chileno. You spelled it out, and its even more asinine than the article itself. The protests stopped years before the election of Obama. Didn’t you notice that? They stopped when people became aware that they couldn’t change things that way. There is little support for the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. Just because people–after amassing tens of millions of people in protest–got fed up with a system of protest that is no longer viable, doesn’t mean that transfers to support. I don’t expect you to understand any of this.
MOHO, hohoho, you twit. No they protests didnt stop, they just changed colors. Barry’s whole campaign was a protest, and it’s turned out to be a bill of goods. But what can you expect from a guy who got his start turning tricks for a slumlord?
The left wing media never brings up the fact that President George W Bush did actually meet and console Cindy Sheehan for her loss and anguish. She thanked him and expressed gratitude for taking time to personally speak with her.
But being the deranged , drooling mob that they are, the leftist media wanted GWB to apologize for killing Casey Sheehan. The CIC cannot do that and she became a tool of their attempt to smear him personally. She sold her grief for a bit of notoriety and dishonor.
She has yet to pay the price for her sin.
#36 Anonymous:
Unfortunately for you not everyone is as dumb as most liberals.
Had the Tea Parties been associated with the left they would have been wall to wall coverage on all the MSM. They would have treated it like the summer of love all over again.
The fact that Fox decided to cover them only shows that they are interested in covering news events period. You can rant all you want how biased Fox is but in reality it is a fact that they are the only major news organization that is anywhere moderately balanced.
Balanced to a lib means leftist which is why libs are under the mistaken idea that they are the center of all in the universe. Nice try but that b.s. does not fly …
The fact that all the other “news” (& I will use that term lightly) outlets did not cover events that 100″s of thousands of people attended only show their blatant bias.
Take your leftist agenda and stuff it after you remove your head from the orifice.
MOHO #53
“The protests stopped years before the election of Obama.”
Maybe in your neighborhood. But around here they continued right up until the election…and tapered off to almost nothing by the coronation. Hell, we barely had 6 weeks go by in the last 6 years when the local Veterans for Peace didn’t have some editorial in the newspaper trashing Bush. But since January there hasn’t been a one. Not a one.
Why did the protesters stop? The wars continue unabated.
Bush started them, to be sure. But Obama now owns them. If there’s one man on the planet who could put a stop to them it is Obama. But he doesn’t appear to be interested, does he? Nor, judging by the silence, dov ery many others.
Whatever moral high ground the left placed themselves upon via their anti-war stance the last 6 years has been intentionally vacated. That they’re abandoning those who (for whatever reason) have at least been consistently anti-war makes it all the more aggregious.
Clearly the Far Right hates Cindy Sheehan because they can’t wrap their brains around the notion that the mother of a fallen soldier would grow to hate the war and the president that were partly responsible for the son’s death.
Had the Bush administration not manipulated intelligence to push us into Iraq, Sheehan’s son would not be dead and Sheehan would not have become an activist.
So I think the moral of this story is, hey Republicans, if you dont want angry moms of dead soldiers camping outside your vacation homes, don’t lie to the American people in order to push the country into a bull**** war.
I think u idiots here have forgotten, she lost a son and was looking for answers. Bush made this war, there are not terrorists, just something that the nwo made up, to take away your rights, and u fools fell for it hook line and sinker. Have compassion for a mother who lost her son for the freedom of speech you so love. Don’t ridicule her and call her names, that is what the liberals do. We are better than that.
I think Cindy is only trying to be consistent.
It’s wrong to bash her like that.
In fact, we all should worry about the safety of our men in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If the Obama Administration is not really serious in the wars started by Bush, then it would be much better to ask for Obama’s immediate pull back of our soldiers in the said rouge countries.
By the way, don’t shoot me. I hate Obamacare. Honest to G-d.
And I’m a Palinista now. Sorry to Rombots and Ronulans.
Kevin (#59): “there are not terrorists”? It must be hard to comment while wearing a straight-jacket, but somehow you seem to have done so. Earth to Kevin, Earth to Kevin…
Not to belabor the point, put this female thing is an abortion who dishonored her son, and her country. It is unfortunate that she is homely.She reflects poorly on homely people of good intent. Ignorance is no defense in the law. But she is beyond ignorant. She is flat out stupid. Ignorance can be remedied. There is no cure form stupid. Don’t give her any more print. Pehaps she will wrap herself in a pink kimono, douse herself with gasoline, and attempt immolation. That would be a good thing.
KB–>
Maybe in your neighborhood. But around here they continued right up until the election…and tapered off to almost nothing by the coronation.
I’m not sure you understand what a protest is. Perhaps its because you’ve been led to believe that a few thousand people coming together at town hall meetings represents some kind of ground swell. When I spoke of protests, I meant protests that could be considered representative of the left–those with tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands. Not just a half dozen veterans or whatever. Duh.
From Bob Seeger’s “Night Moves”
“I used her, she used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin our share
Workin on our night moves…”
She got hers and they got theirs.
And Casey Sheehan still died a hero’s death, volunteering for a mission he didn’t have to go on…to rescue his buddies from under the guns of the Mahdi Army.
If you think that Sheehan is covering for Obama, then you haven’t done much research. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uscl4WSChU
I rarely agree with Sheehan, but at least she’s consistent.
“When I spoke of protests, I meant protests that could be considered representative of the left–those with tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands. Not just a half dozen veterans or whatever.” – Moho #63
I guess veterans still haven’t gained the right to protest even though they’ve fought for this great country. If you never thought a liberal was pathetic before, this ought to change your mind. Apparently protesting is only valid if there are a thousand liberals. A few dozen veterans does NOT a protest make. Thanks Moho for clearing that up for all of us.
Good for you, MoHo. With just a little luck, your neigbhorhood will be submerged as a consequence of global (gasp) warming. That would be a unanticipated benifit of world climate change. I’ve talked to some of your minions. Too much weed. Not enough hard work.
SEND CINDY SOME ESTROGEN. QUICK. (maybe also MoHo).
Poor Cindy found out that a lot of people she thought were anti-war were just liberal democrats. The last thing the left and Obama want is troup withdrawal as they fear the troops.
She was too ignorant to know she was being used by the Liberal left.
She sold her grief for a bit of notoriety and dishonor.
She has yet to pay the price for her sin.
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What do you consider the price?
Let’s see, the left not only has abandoned her (in hopes she’ll go away now that she is no longer useful), they have fought against her attempts to shine light on Nancy’s dirty laundry. (and everything else she attempts to take a flashlight to.) They have held her up for public ridicule. She is mocked and scorned, or else ignored by her former acolytes in the MSM.
She is publicly displayed as the naive woman and controlling mother she is. (She’s mad because her ADULT child wouldn’t do what mommy said, and she wants someone to “pay” for it.)
MOHO–Its sounds that just like Jharp…you’ve got nothing to say about your dear leader receiving more through the back door than just cash from his slumlord boss. Is it perhaps because you know it’s true and you can’t do ANYTHING about it?
58. Anonymoses wrote:
Had the Bush administration not manipulated intelligence to push us into Iraq, Sheehan’s son would not be dead and Sheehan would not have become an activist.
Peter writes: You mean the same intelligence that all the Democrats in Congress saw and agreed that Saddam was a threat?
You mean the same intelligence that foreign allies saw and agreed that Saddam was a threat?
You mean THIS intelligence?
Agent: Hussein was surprised U.S. invaded
27 January 2008
Saddam Hussein let the world think he had weapons of mass destruction to intimidate Iran and prevent the country from attacking Iraq, according to an FBI agent who interviewed the dictator after his 2003 capture.
According to a CBS report, Hussein claimed he didn’t anticipate that the United States would invade Iraq over WMD, agent George Piro said on “60 Minutes,” scheduled for Sunday broadcast.
“For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that (faking having the weapons) would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq,” said Piro.
“He told me he initially miscalculated … President Bush’s intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998 … a four-day aerial attack,” Piro said. “He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack.”
So in other words, Saddam believed Bush would be as much of a wuss as Clinton was when he allowed al Qaeda to build up attack after attack, each getting worse, until 9/11 occurred.
59. Kevin wrote:
Bush made this war, there are not terrorists, just something that the nwo made up, to take away your rights
Peter asks: So, Kevin, are you admitting to being an idiotic truther, or have you forgotten 9/11 already, like most libtards want to?
Initially I saw her as a sincere, albeit misguided, grieving mother of a fallen soldier and under these circumstances I didn’t critized her – yet it didn’t take very long to see that her presence on the scene was actually an ugly act of self-aggrandizement shamelessly used by some outside, anti-american forces.
My! I can remember Mark Shields blabbering about how Cindy Sheehan put a human face on a, apparently abstract, Iraq War – David Brooks and Lehrer solemny acknowledging.
With such American human faces like Sheehan and Michael Moore we don’t need outsiders to defame this nation.
As far as how swift the left is when the moment comes to discard “deviationists”, we have a solid, sobering body of evidence here – so any kossite or huffpostian might consider this before signing up with the cause. He or she might later regret that move when condemmned to dig for life in a plutonium mine in Iakutia for having relatives in Ireland or Brazil or listening R&B on enemy radio stations.
Never have the ad hominem martial arts of junior high have been deployed to such devastating effect. Or, to put it more succinctly, “Meeee-ow!”
Adioski, Cindy! … LOOK OUT!!! ….. oh no … too late .. that was a big bus tire, eh?
I guess veterans still haven’t gained the right to protest even though they’ve fought for this great country.
Oh boo hoo, you whine like a girl. Plenty of veterans in my family and extended family, none of them have ever, ever, ever burdened anyone with that bull. This constant whining petulant sobbing about the right to protest is something only people who’ve never served in the military–nor would they ever have the guts to do so–would bring up.
“Casey Sheehan was not exploited by President George W. Bush”
Bush didn’t cause the recession, either. Facts mean nothing to left-wingers.
Just to prove it, here’s a quote from Sec 1233:
“An explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title.”
As pointed out by many, the government will thus be providing monetary incentive for doctors to give you ‘end of life service’ counseling.
Jon Stewart is a clown. He picks his targets so he won’t have to make difficult arguments – he learned this after having has ass handed to him by Bill Kristol, Cliff May, and Jonah Goldberg. The inability of a carefully-selected opponent to describe a problem does not mean that problem doesn’t exist. If that were the case, Alan Colmes would have permanently invalidated every single left-wing talking point in history.
Athiest conservative:
Jon Stewart is a clown. He picks his targets so he won’t have to make difficult arguments – he learned this after having has ass handed to him by Bill Kristol, Cliff May, and Jonah Goldberg.
Yeah, right. He made Kristol admit that the government runs the best health care in America. He practically told Kristol he was doing it as he led him step by step into the trap, but Kristol couldn’t see it, tumescent apparently because he got to make the point that only soldiers deserved free health care. It was pretty pathetic. I can see why you people don’t mind an intellectual of his caliber leading you–he’s nearly as dumb as you are.
Cindy has the right to get explanations about the stupidity of a guy who got his directions from an imaginary god. Isn’t this the definition of dementia? I’m glad the guy was put to pasture. But his craziness is making him build a library without books. It’s Republican money after all.
RE #80/ Mojo: [...] I can see why you people don’t mind an intellectual of his [Kristol's] caliber leading you–he’s nearly as dumb as you are. [...]
Mojo, you mental giant – apparently you haven’t detected yet that no one’s taking Stewart other than as a sorry buffoon craving attention, except Hilton Perez, you Mojo, and perhaps Pee-Wee Herman (oh, we shouldn’t forget Barry Soetoro here, as attention craving goes, he sure relates to Stewart’s deep necessities).
So, why should a bright fellow like Kristol bother to cogently argue with Stewart? To get from his hand the Tonka excavator? Or for being applauded by some dolts like you and vivo?
Alas! and there is an irony in doing post – why would a normal being like me answer to the crap an idiotic creature like you, Mojo, is relentlessly discharging?
I did it though – mea culpa – looks like I got a problem.
Moho: “The protests stopped years before the election of Obama…. When I spoke of protests, I meant protests that could be considered representative of the left–those with tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands.”
Ah, the child-like pettiness of your arguments. So only large protests count, anything less than “tens of thousands” doesn’t count… It’s laughable how you tailor your definitions to fit your agenda. There were plenty of protests throughout 2008, like the ones held on the 5th anniversary of the war, on March 19. Though less protestors, the anti-war movement persisted, with the funding and the blessing of the Left, as a constant reminder of an unpopular war. It was necessary to remind people of the war because, besides the economy, the major issue -for years- had been the war, and how Bush was to continue it, while Obama would stop it. This was a cornerstone in Obama’s campaign, and poor fools like Cindy Sheehan served as useful idiots to drive this point home. Now the campaign is over, so the idiots, including Sheehan, have unceremoniously been jettisoned like excess baggage.
The issue was never really to end the war, it was to get Obama elected. It wasn’t the policy that mattered, it was the politics.
Besides, now that Obama is President, and finds he can’t deliver on his promise of a speedy pull out, those constant reminders of the war have become counterproductive.
No longer do you see the media listing the number of American forces killed. It used to be civilian deaths in Iraq were yet another example of the brutality of Bush’s War. Today, nobody mentions the Afghan civilians killed by Mr. Obama’s unmanned drones. The Left screamed about Gitmo, but now they’d rather discuss clunker subsidies, despite the fact Gitmo is still open (and amply funded, thanks to the Democrat Senators). The Left demanded war crimes for Cheney, but now are silent, despite many of the same policies are still in place. They insisted we pull out of Iraq yesterday, but now nonchalantly discuss how the timetable may be extended, depending on “facts on the ground.”
Ah the hypocrisy. But then again what would you expect from this President? He promised to tell Canada and Mexico “that we will opt out [of NAFTA] unless we renegotiate the core labor and environmental standards.” (I’m still waiting…) He promised to run a transparent special interest-free administration, then cuts a back-room deal with the pharmaceutical industry (ironically, with the very same individual, Billy Tauzin, showcased in an Obama campaign ad as a evidence of “special interests” in Washington).
The truth is he promised much but has delivered little in terms of changing the “evils” done by Bush. The Left’s defense? “Bush did it first”! But Obama won the election because he presented himself as the anti-Bush, an agent of change. Do you think he would’ve won if his motto had been “more of the same”?
But then again, you wouldn’t see any of this. No, your intense hate for anything Right, and blind love for anything Left (or is it Black?) prevents you from grasping the truth, even if it was beating you in the head. So long, little man. BTW, you’re good at distorting the truth! You know, MSNBC could sure use you on their staff!
Moho: ” This constant whining petulant sobbing about the right to protest…”
Gee, you’ve just described the Left wing of the past 8 years!! Ha, ha!
Of couse in your infected little mind, when the Left wants to protest, it’s JUSTICE!! When the right wants to protest, it’s WHINING!!
When the Left holds web-organized rallies, they’re sophisticated grass-roots protests. When a conservative website calls on members to attend a Townhall meeting, it’s just evidence of “deep pockets” funding Right Wing mobs.
To the Left, it’s O.K. for Code Pink, a “peace and social justice movement,” to befriend and defend Hugo Chavez, despite his relentless assault on Venezuelan civil liberties. But Bush is a powermongering monster for intercepting telecommunications that originated outside the US.
Then again, to the Left, it’s O.K. to admire law-breaking rebels like Che Guevara (and make movies to glorify them), despite the fact he was responsible for ordering hundreds of executions in Cuba. But Bush and Cheney are murderous criminals for starting an evil war, one which, despite his promises, Obama has failed to stop.
Sheehan is a bubble-head and Meister neglects to mention in her article, a Jew-hater. Sheehan is on record as seeing the war in Iraq as being a plot hatched by eviiiil Israel and their neo-con minions in the US. She milked her son’s death for her own egotistical self-aggrandisement – she is pathetic and worse.
MoHo: What country’s military are your relatives veterans of?
Now Moho tells us that veterans who are now protesting are “burdening” us? WTF?
If I never thought liberals were totally braindead before, that just sealed their fate in my eyes.
Go back to sleep Moho. We’ll wake you up when Code Pink needs a banner carrier for their next liberal protest. Apparently fat lesbians wearing pink boas are ever so much more legit than those silly old veterans waving flags and wearing their medals.
I apologize though if you really are a fat old lesbian.
The most disgusting thing about Cindy’s actions are the disrespect she has shown regarding her son’s death. He obviously supported the mission and her angry protests were against her own son’s behaviour. She has no decency what so ever.
37. Peter the Bubblehead:
Peter writes: It is my understanding she would not even have to. The military buys and prepares all headstones for combat troops killed in the line of duty. That’s why all modern military headstones in Vet cemetaries (and some town and private ones) all look alike. All Sheehan would have had to do was request one from the DoD.
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Ahhhh. Thank you for clearing that up for me, Peter! Wow. Lame.
Let’s see: this article is about how the LEFT has tossed Mother Sheehan aside like a used Kleenex because she is no longer useful to them.
But the brainless trolls who show up here are berating the RIGHT for not respecting Sheehan, although they themselves have no respect for her now. “We think she’s an old hasbeen and we’re sick of her, but how dare you conservatives diss her? Why, why, you’re heartless!”
More proof that logic and leftism are strangers to each other.
To borrow an expression from their hero, that amazingly eloquent community organizer, they’re all wee-weed up.
Hey, vivo, it’s your very own President Wee-wee (you know that nickname is gonna stick) who is now claiming to be in a partnership with the Lord. (Of course, the Lord plays second fiddle to Obama.) God wants us to have socialized medicine, doncha know?
Jeez, first Muppet Man tries to dazzle us with polls that are 2 months out of date and then vivo screams “imaginary friend,” apparently not realizing that President wee wee is now saying he’s in cahoots with that same friend.
The pitiful trolls who infest PJM spend so much time obsessively visiting this site (and they’ve won over so many of us -LOL!) that they can’t be bothered to keep their own talking points up to date.
Now Moho tells us that veterans who are now protesting are “burdening” us? WTF?
That’s what you wish I said you little whining baby. I said that people who serve in the military generally don’t see things this way. They have discipline, they don’t whine about how the rest of the world is persecuting them, and they certainly don’t think that the world owes them because they served. That’s a particular world view displayed only by cowards who wished that they had served, but never had the guts. I say that with three marines in my family and an army reservist who’ve never so much as made any comment like that. I’m pretty sure they’d laugh in your weeping little face about it as well.
Cindy brought shame and dishonor to her son’s name that will live far beyond her miserable span of years. Casey Sheehan was a hero who fought and died for his country, but whenever or wherever the Sheehan name is mentioned the only remembrance will be that of his crazy Mom. The only thing left for her is to be locked up in some sort of right wing nut house where she can be re-educated to see how badly she was played by the dems. Like a cheap fiddle.
She lost her child. I’ll cut her all the slack she needs. Whether she’s right or wrong, she’s at least been consistent in her anti war campaign. It’s the typical hypocrisy of the left and of the media that is the issue here.
91. Donna V.:
“who is now claiming to be in a partnership with the Lord. (Of course, the Lord plays second fiddle to Obama.) God wants us to have socialized medicine, doncha know?”
I haven’t heard anything about it, but let’s say that you are right. I’m guessing that if President Obama is pushing the religious buttons is just because the religious people want to hear it. You can’t ignore such a large block, who already use their own ‘socialized’ hospitals and organizations. Ask Mother Theresa.
vivo: Obama told a group of rabbis that “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death” – a statement that would have you foaming at the mouth if a conservative made it.
I’m guessing that if President Obama is pushing the religious buttons is just because the religious people want to hear it
In other words, he’s a liar and a hypocrite, but so what? It’s for a “good cause.” The only people fooled by his statement are the dopey religious libs who are even more stupid and gulliable than the secular lefties.
You can’t ignore such a large block, who already use their own ’socialized’ hospitals and organizations
Do you ever think before your fingers hit the keyboard? What an uninformed statement. I work for a religiously-affliated hospital (most hospitals in this country are religiously-affiliated.) While we do a lot of charity care, we are not ‘socialized’ – not yet. And Catholic hospitals and charities do not just care for Catholics (in fact much of our charity care goes to blacks, most of whom are not Catholic), just as Lutheran ones don’t have exclusively Lutheran patients, Jewish hospitals are not just for Jews, etc.
Mother Theresa relied very much on charitable contributions, not handouts from the Indian government.
Voluntary charity is not the same as socialism, idiot.
I see that the Right is still not done in vilifying and insulting Sheehan for, OMG!, becoming an antiwar activist after losing a son in Iraq, and, double OMG!!, wanting Bush impeached for misrepresenting and lying about Iraq. She even went so far as to, triple OMG!, run again Pelosi for removing the impeachment of Bush as an option.
The bottom line is that Sheehan was and is far, FAR more right, so to speak, than the people making fun of her (and that supposed anti-Semite stuff was never more than the usual, straight from the butt, right wing BS). Bush did lie about the war, her son died for no good reason aside from him being the good soldier in good faity, so Bush really should have been impeached, and I’ll always regard Pelosi as a useless, untrustworthy, and cynically business as usual politician because of the non-impeachment stuff.
#8 Anonymous: “dude, this article was totally unnecessary….” Amen to that brother. A lot of hot air wasted, and people maybe developing carpal tunnel syndrome over nothing.
I agree with those who said to cut Cindy some slack. After all, she did pay the ultimate sacrifice a parent can pay, losing a son in war. One mistake she made: should have picketed Dick Cheney’s house as the war was his baby; still trying to restore that executive privilege lost in Watergate.
After that, Cindy’s sort of the Ann Coulter of the left wing. Neither has a lot of credibility, but have, and do engage in, a lot of empty & meaningless rhetoric.
96. Donna V.:
“The only people fooled by his statement are the dopey religious libs who are even more stupid and gulliable (sic) than the secular lefties.”
Do you ever think before your fingers hit the keyboard? Nobody is fooling anyone here. You just said you work in a religious health care organization. So he is bringing to these people’s attention that the new legislation will work in similar fashion to the system you well know.
“we are not ’socialized’ – not yet.”
Take a look at this:
“Baptists and Socialized Medicine
John Leland, the famed revolutionary era Baptist evangelist who championed religious freedom, was adament(sic) about separation of church and state: he even insisted that the state should not grant ministers and congregations tax breaks.
Leland would be probably be appaled(sic) if he were alive today and could see the tax favoritisms granted to ministers and congregations by the U.S. government. Yet the tax favoritism does not come without strings: for instance, in addition to not being taxed on housing, an ordained minister may opt of paying Social Security and Medicare if he or she has moral, ethical or religious objections to participating in socialized medicine and retirement.
While some Baptist ministers do opt out of socialized medicine and retirement (or so I am told), most apparently do not. In fact, when I recently queried some minister friends about their participation in socialized medicine and retirement, several otherwise conservative Baptists defended their own involvement in socialism.
At the same time, some of these very same conservative Baptists insist that socialized medicine, while fine for them, should not be made available to their fellow Americans. This attitude of “socialized medicine is fine for me but allowing my fellow Americans to have it will ruin the country” seems to be the same attitude that is playing out in tea parties and anger-ridden town hall health care meetings: a lot of (primarily) senior citizens (and all white, I might add) on socialized medicine are ticked off that Americans at large may be allowed to also receive socialized medicine.
What does it say for Baptists (and other clergy) and senior citizens (and conservatives at that) who refuse to give up their socialized medicine, to insist that their fellow Americans not be allowed into their socialist club? Perhaps this is just a little snapshot of how America has become a nation of selfish individuals (including religious folk) who are only concerned with their own interests and who have little to no compassion for their fellow Americans. I’d like to think this is not the case, but I’m not so sure anymore.”
Pretty interesting, right?
“Voluntary charity is not the same as socialism, idiot.”
Look at yourself in a mirror. What do you see? An idiot who does not understand the definition os SOCIALISM:
“Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating state, public or common worker (e.g. through cooperatives) ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation”
It didn’t say Government, it can be a group of people who benefit from resources like HOSPITALS (surprise!!)
Cindy Sheehan speaks truth about Nancy Pelosi. And telling the truth about Nancy Pelosi is not allowed in the mainstream press.
It’s funny, but the fact that Cindy made it thru the birth canal has made me pro-abortion. Ironic. Well, at least she birthed a noble son. She shouldl have quit while she was ahead.
She should have some classs like Sarah Palin and just go on with her life.
“President Wee Wee”
That’s a good one. Our President is really an idiot when he’s off the teleprompter. Unfortunately.for.us.
I think Cindy’s fall was at the BEGINNING of her tenure..she fell on her head.
Cindy Palin.
Cindy Who????????