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2005-08-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Cindy Sheehan, Mother of Spc Casey Austin Sheehan Sets the Record Staight or Not?

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Posted by bernardz 2005-08-21 03:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 yawn. Shiny keys for the kos kids. The left has chosen her for a poster child and I agree it sounds like they are trying to polish her to keep anti-semitism in the closet.

The left is sending a message with her, I'm just not sure they realize "the message(TM)" they are sending. The way I see it is a bunch of Woodstock wanna be's trying to recapture the 60's by trotting out an unbalanced, painfully unattractive woman who is disrepecting her son's choices in life and shamelessly using his death as a means to get attention directed at herself.

Personally, I think she is a great symbol of today's left. I'm just surprised they are willing to admit it.

I could go on with my analogy of how she symbolizes all that is today's left, but I won't. But the main problem for those who attempt to put Cindy on their mast-head is that her son is always in her shadows. A young man who chose to serve his country. Young, vital, willing to return to Iraq in a combat position. His youth and patriotism a sharp contrast to ugly, pushy, shamless attention whoring of his death by his mother and her handlers who whore her for political points.

This would have worked before blogs, when the media could completely frame Cindy as a grieving mother who Bush wouldn't speak to. But it's not working now.

She is a symbol of today's left. She is getting their message out. God only knows why left doesn't look in the mirror that is Cindy Sheehan and want to cry.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-21 08:58|| 2005-08-21 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 an unbalanced, painfully unattractive woman who is disrepecting her son's choices in life and shamelessly using his death as a means to get attention directed at herself.

Other than that she seems like a purdy nice ole gal.

Posted by Mona Gorilla 2005-08-21 09:47|| 2005-08-21 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The left seems to have a knack for turning private grief into a public circus. Someone needs to explain to them that this is unattractive as well as counter-productive. That someone would not be me.

Posted by DMFD 2005-08-21 10:12|| 2005-08-21 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Let her talk, she is doing all the work for us. Even the Democrats are abandoning the leftist, they realize they will never win in 2008 with them around.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-21 10:53|| 2005-08-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 stoopid biatch can't even tell time. 15 minutes is up, dammit

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-21 11:08|| 2005-08-21 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 15 minutes is up, dammit

But it's still the slow news season! What will the press report?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-21 15:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-21 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 A recapture of the 60's is correct. What else explains the toothless, gray-haired hippies that flocked to Camp Casey. And, like the 60's, the MSM is playing up the story in hopes that they can be a force behind withdrawal. None of them give a shit about our military and its mission, yet they clinge to the freedoms the military protects.

This is a different time and a different enemy. But Cindy Sheehan & Co. are lost in the time machine. Let the loony Left sink the "without a clue" Dummycats. They deserve one another.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-21 15:22|| 2005-08-21 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Have you read the comments there? Most of them are along the lines of "Cindy Sheehan shouldn't back down from her totally true charge that the Joooooz are running our foreign policy? And since when did it become anti-Semitic to see Joooooz under every Bush, anyway?"

The issue there is whether Cindy Sheehan wrote "Nightline" producer Tom Bettag that her son died for Israel. First she said that a "hacker" sent the letter from her account. Then she said that she sent it to ideological ally James Morris -- who apparently is commenting on that blog, by the way -- who added the words about Israel to suit his own agenda.

But Slate questioned several other people who supposedly got the same letter directly from Sheehan.

Reading this article, I get the feeling that Casey [sic, Cindy] is being coached by people in an attempt to make her more marketable as a weapon against Bush.

You'll get a different impression from Sheehan herself, who is tired of all the LYING LIARS in the LYING media who LIE about the LIES of the LYING Bush Administration. Oh, and she's not about to tone down her rhetoric to sway any fence sitters, "god damn it". So there.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-08-21 18:58|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-08-21 18:58|| Front Page Top

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