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Home Front: Politix
McCain is 'a warmonger,' Sheehan says after meeting
2005-09-28
WASHINGTON - Peace mom Cindy Sheehan didn't change her opposition to the war in Iraq after meeting Tuesday with one of its supporters, Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam veteran whom she called "a warmonger." Sheehan thanked McCain for meeting with her, but she came away disappointed.
"He tried to tell us what George Bush would have said," Sheehan, who protested at the president's Texas home over the summer, told reporters. "I don't believe he believes what he was telling me."
That's OK, Cindy. We don't believe what you tell us either
McCain, R-Ariz., also seemed disappointed in the meeting, which he said had been misrepresented as including some of his constituents. Only one person in her small delegation has ties to the state, and that person no longer lives there.
Gee, I wonder how that happened?
The two exchanged views about the war, and McCain described the conversation as "a rehash" of opinions already well-known. He said he might not have met with Sheehan had he known none of his constituents was in the group. Although McCain has criticized the handling of the Iraq war, he has supported President Bush's call to stop terrorism abroad before it reaches the United States. Sheehan, whose son, Casey, died in Iraq last year, has energized the anti-war movement with her call for troops to be brought home.

"He is a warmonger, and I'm not," Sheehan said after meeting with McCain. "I believe this war is not keeping America safer." "She's entitled to her opinion," McCain said. "We just have fundamental disagreements."
Posted by:Steve

#20  Modestly NSFW Cindy Sheehan:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/Sheehan.jpg
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-09-28 19:43  

#19  SM say it man.... they're both insane.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-09-28 18:43  

#18  Actually, the fact that she has called McCain a "warmonger" makes me likes him a little bit more than I did before. Which is not much.

I assume that this was the point of this exercise.
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-09-28 16:54  

#17  LOL McCain deserves it! When you lay down with dogs you may wake up with fleas.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-09-28 14:31  

#16  Simple, the more "Leaders" meet with her, the more it dilutes her importance as regards "Hillary", thin the soup enough and it's of no nourishment.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-28 14:17  

#15  Why would anyone lower themself to meet with that deranged lunatic? That's not showing very good judgement, John. What good could have possibly come from it? Did you believe for a moment that she might have looked you in the eye and said "Gee, I guess I was wrong"???
Posted by: Crusader   2005-09-28 13:14  

#14  I don't know about that, Hupolump, I think McCain pretty much dismissed her as a dingbat: more politely than I would have, but then, he's a politican. I think McCain is drawing lines here, and that helps him.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-09-28 13:13  

#13  something tells me after McCain spent what 5 years in a nroth vietnamese orison camp he cares too much for war
Posted by: Uninetle Hupating2229   2005-09-28 13:11  

#12  McCain is the biggest pussy in the GOP, if he can't make her happy it can't be done.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-09-28 13:11  

#11  Not only a ritual, but a rite of passage, and more importantly, a stamp of approval.
Posted by: N. Chamberlain   2005-09-28 12:38  

#10  I want my president to have some skill in judgement. McCain just flushed the toilet. Consider it a 'Brown' moment, when adequate meets overwhelming and the shortcomings are displayed. Bye, bye John.
Posted by: Hupolump Ebbavilet3398   2005-09-28 12:25  

#9  Believe me, she's "legitimately ill". 24/7.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-09-28 12:19  

#8  They are saying she left a rally "legitimately ill". How does "legitimately ill" differ from ordinary "ill"?
Posted by: BigEd   2005-09-28 12:12  

#7  This is becoming kind of a ritual for the 2008 candidates, isn't it? Being insulted or condemned by “Mother” Sheehan I mean. When it was Hillary I thought that it was some kind of set up (still do). Now McCain has deliberately set himself up too.

What’s next? Does she condemn Al Gore and Bill Frist?
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-09-28 12:02  

#6  Looks like Chris Matthews bought her lies, or doesn't care. From his show last night:

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about your meeting with John McCain. When was it this afternoon?

SHEEHAN: It was at 4:00 this afternoon, just right before I came over here.

MATTHEWS: How long was it?

SHEEHAN: It was about 20 minutes.

MATTHEWS: Alone with him?

SHEEHAN: I was with, yes, him and his staff. And my sister and a constituent went with us.
Posted by: Steve   2005-09-28 11:55  

#5  #4 au contraire, BaR, lots of folks want to hear what she thinks or says. Train wrecks are addictive.
Posted by: john 2005-09-28 11:50

John: I'm with you buddy. Sheehan's the gift that just keeps giving. US out of New Orleans; her dismissive remarks about Hurricane Rita being "a little wind and rain."

Read how KOS KOOKS lose their freaking minds after Cindy's little? gaffe:


rita (3.33 / 3)
i am watching cnn and it is 100 percent rita...even though it is a little wind and a little rain...it is bad, but there are other things going on in this country today...and in the world!!!!


by CindySheehan on Sat Sep 24th, 2005 at 06:29:15 PDT
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Posted by: Ebberenter Huperetle1983   2005-09-28 11:53  

#4  au contraire, BaR, lots of folks want to hear what she thinks or says. Train wrecks are addictive.
Posted by: john   2005-09-28 11:50  

#3  Nobody cares about what Sheehan thinks.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-09-28 11:45  

#2  There is no way on God's Earth I would "click to enlarge" on the picture of her in that article. I wonder if McCain was really surprised he was lied to about some of his constituants being in the group. I'm certainly not.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-09-28 11:39  

#1  Sheehan is 'deranged lunatic,' McCain says after meeting
Posted by: tu3031   2005-09-28 11:28  

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