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2005-09-22 Fifth Column

Saint Hillary To Meet With Mother Sheehan

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Posted by Raj 2005-09-22 10:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Watch her hands, lady...

Posted by The Ghost of Vince Foster 2005-09-22 10:14|| 2005-09-22 10:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Cindy sure got off to a big start yesterday:
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed fighting in Iraq and who camped for weeks outside U.S. President George W. Bush's Texas ranch to protest the war, brought her message to Washington on Wednesday with rallies and lobbying ahead of a larger demonstration this weekend. Sheehan was joined by about 30 supporters in her march down Pennsylvania Avenue to deliver a letter to Bush urging him to pull the troops out of Iraq.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-22 10:20|| 2005-09-22 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 The Washington Times reporter counted "about a dozen" supporters and a "scrum of unruly camera operators and reporters."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-22 10:28|| 2005-09-22 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and make sure there's a helluva lot more ~~witnesses~~ people then that around. I thought you were famous or something?

Posted by The Ghost of Vince Foster 2005-09-22 10:31|| 2005-09-22 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Sheehan was joined by about 30 supporters in her march down Pennsylvania Avenue

But did she have her own theme music? I think Jonah Goldberg got more people than that walking down Washington Avenue in Minneapolis. Partly because Jonah's no moonbat, and partly because he had the theme music. ("You should be dancin'... Yeah!"--thanks for the detailed account, Mr. Lileks)

Posted by eLarson 2005-09-22 10:45|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-09-22 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder what Hillery is planning. I can't see any advantage to her meeting with Sheehan, but it coould hurt her with the more centrists of the Democrats. she's got nothing to gain.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-09-22 11:06|| 2005-09-22 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 poor hilary. at least she doesnt have to meet with Monica.

Yay Difi!

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-09-22 11:07|| 2005-09-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 I can't see any advantage to her meeting with Sheehan

She has to appease the far-left activists that have become the base of the Dimocratic Party. If she doesn't, they can cause a lot of trouble during primary season.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-22 11:33|| 2005-09-22 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 You think Hillary will ask her about the $100,000 or so that Shitheads(sheehans') CRONIES stole out of La.?????
Maybe she'll punch Hill in the mouth!!!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-09-22 11:36|| 2005-09-22 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 The Unelectable in hot pursuit of the Imbecilic.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-09-22 12:04|| 2005-09-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd love to have a transcript of *that* meeting!

Posted by Crusader 2005-09-22 12:08|| 2005-09-22 12:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe the Saint could give the Mother some hot tips in the options market.

Posted by mhw 2005-09-22 12:09|| 2005-09-22 12:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd love to be a fly-on-the-wall of that meeting.

On the other hand I dont think I would want to be a fly around these toads....

This just shows how pathetic and socialistic the Democatic Party has become. Its kind of sad because it once was a decent and respectable party...

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-09-22 13:29|| 2005-09-22 13:29|| Front Page Top

#14 If you hold a protest in DC while the Mother Of All Storms is leveling Houston, will anyone hear you?

Damm, Karl Rove is good.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-22 13:31|| 2005-09-22 13:31|| Front Page Top

#15 if hilary doesnt meet with sheehan, they'll sya shes just like Bush. this way she defuses that - but doesnt really offer sheehan anything - the woman who lived with Bill all those years is quite capable of meeting with someone, and not opening up to her. MOre so than Bush, I suspect. and shes not the president, so getting a meeting with Hilary simply isnt that big a deal.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-09-22 13:33|| 2005-09-22 13:33|| Front Page Top

#16 Wonder if Hillary!--or John McCain, for that matter--is meeting with Mother Sheehan for the express purpose of doing a Sister Souljah on her. I can see Hillary! pulling it off, though having ex-POW McCain quote Cindy's more aggressive anti-American rhetoric in front of the cameras, and then proceeding to rip her a new orifice, would be much more effective.

Posted by Mike 2005-09-22 13:51|| 2005-09-22 13:51|| Front Page Top

#17 nah, mike, Hilary isnt as bold as Bill was, and shes in a different position. In 1992 the left had been on losing streak, and clinton promised victory, out of the blue _ DLC was young and vibrant and the left was dead. And sista souljah was a perfect target - even blacks (the ones who were old enough to vote) didnt like her. Now hilary has to deal with the likes of Soros, and Moveon, and Kos. And Sheehan, is, lets recall, a mom of a dead soldier, not a rap star. Nah, Hilarry wont pull Souljah here. She'll poliitely nod, then make a statement that ignores what Sheehan actually said. This is like taking medecine for Hilary you dont like it, but it must be done.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-09-22 16:12|| 2005-09-22 16:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Yes, LH, but will Cindy Sheehan keep her yap shut and go back to California after the meeting? Her "Crusade" is nothing more than a few hangers-on being run by professional agitators. I don't see her being a player and I don't think Hillary has anything to gain by meeting with her. Except to say, "I did and Bush didn't". Even Feinsein wouldn't. That really got some of the real loonies knickers in a not. The were claiming she was a closet Republican. The attacks on the Democratic leadership are really something to read.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-09-22 16:23|| 2005-09-22 16:23|| Front Page Top

#19 Hillary's gonna turn into Darth Vader's wife when them two meet; I think Sheehan's toast. But like LH says, the war between hard left and left / centrist/left (for lack of a more descriptive term) will continue regardless of what happens here. It looks like the MSM will cover Sheehan quite a while after most of us (especially myself) predicted Sheehan's use to them would have been well over.

Posted by Raj 2005-09-22 16:40|| 2005-09-22 16:40|| Front Page Top

#20 So the leading candidate for the Democrats is going to meet with the face of ANSWER and other anti-American groups.

Why is this news? The Democrats love the people who hate the US, and vice versa.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-22 16:46|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-22 16:46|| Front Page Top

#21 You make a pretty persuasive case there, 'Hawk. Still, I wonder . . .

Let us imagine (per 'Hawk's speculation) that Hillary! meets with Cindy and issues this mushy, wishy-washy, noncommittal statement that can be spun either way on the war but ends with "oh, and I met her but the president didn't." Then, Cindy meets with John McCain -- and McCain pulls the Souljah, just unloads on her about her anti-Americanism like he's dropping napalm from his A-4. How does that play out? Badly for Hillary!, I think.

Now, Hillary! is nothing if not smart. Might she already have wargamed this scenario?

Posted by Mike 2005-09-22 16:55|| 2005-09-22 16:55|| Front Page Top

#22 I am wondering if Cindy heard the Godfather theme when she was ushered in to see Saint Hillary? "Why did it come to this?"

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-09-22 17:28|| 2005-09-22 17:28|| Front Page Top

#23 the woman who lived with Bill all those years is quite capable of meeting with someone, and not opening up

:>
You got it LH, been there.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-22 17:47|| 2005-09-22 17:47|| Front Page Top

#24 Hillary will meet with Cindy.... What's this an UGLI BROAD convention???

Posted by radrh8r 2005-09-22 17:56|| 2005-09-22 17:56|| Front Page Top

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