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In article <MMudnSMNmq4hYZHbnZ2dnUVZ_tfinZ2d@giganews.com>, weberm@polaris.net
wrote:
>gzuckier@snail-mail.net wrote:
>>Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> Remember Cindy Sheehan? Neither does anyone else,
>>
>>Cept you.
>
>Ironic how after all her ranting about being censored that she suddenly
>vanished after turned on the Democrats, is it not?
Back in January, we noted that Democrats, having won majorities in Congress
last November, seemed to have cooled to their onetime sweetheart Cindy
Sheehan, as had their allies in the media. Now it looks as though the breakup
is complete. In a Memorial Day posting to DailyKos.com, Sheehan writes:
The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly
come to are very heartbreaking to me.
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called
left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the
Republican Party... However, when I started to hold the
Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican
Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left"
started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I
guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue
of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of
"right or left", but "right and wrong." . . .
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I
am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need
to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying
to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither...
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning,
however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing.
In an effort to maintain some shred of dignity, Sheehan presents herself as
the one doing the dumping:
I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am
going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and
try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain
and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found
in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try
to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began
this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is
now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly
mendacious marble. . . .
This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American
anti-war movement... Good-bye America...you are not the
country that I love and I finally realized no matter how
much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you
want it.
We have no ideological sympathy for Sheehan, who espouses noxious and hateful
anti-American ideas. At a human level, however, we are appalled by the way in
which the left and the media exploited this obviously troubled woman, falsely
presenting her as a sainted everymom, then discarding her when she ceased to
be of use to them.
"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself," Sheehan tells the Associated
Press. "I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal." We hope that she gets
whatever help she needs toward that end.
--
"Over the summer I had a hysterectomy, and um, I got my "parts" back. I
thought I could just [inaudible] on eBay, you know, "[inaudible] Cindy
Sheehan's uterus." And so I planted it in the garden where the bush, it's
a pretty bush. . . . It's so funny 'cause me and my children, we'll
always be a part of, of Crawford, Texas. Long after people forgot the
horror of the Bush regime, long after, you know, we're forgotten. We'll
always, our DNA will always be in the land."
--Cindy Sheehan, moral and intellectual leader of the Angry Left
wrote:
>gzuckier@snail-mail.net wrote:
>>Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> Remember Cindy Sheehan? Neither does anyone else,
>>
>>Cept you.
>
>Ironic how after all her ranting about being censored that she suddenly
>vanished after turned on the Democrats, is it not?
Back in January, we noted that Democrats, having won majorities in Congress
last November, seemed to have cooled to their onetime sweetheart Cindy
Sheehan, as had their allies in the media. Now it looks as though the breakup
is complete. In a Memorial Day posting to DailyKos.com, Sheehan writes:
The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly
come to are very heartbreaking to me.
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called
left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the
Republican Party... However, when I started to hold the
Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican
Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left"
started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I
guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue
of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of
"right or left", but "right and wrong." . . .
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I
am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need
to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying
to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither...
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning,
however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing.
In an effort to maintain some shred of dignity, Sheehan presents herself as
the one doing the dumping:
I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am
going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and
try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain
and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found
in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try
to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began
this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is
now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly
mendacious marble. . . .
This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American
anti-war movement... Good-bye America...you are not the
country that I love and I finally realized no matter how
much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you
want it.
We have no ideological sympathy for Sheehan, who espouses noxious and hateful
anti-American ideas. At a human level, however, we are appalled by the way in
which the left and the media exploited this obviously troubled woman, falsely
presenting her as a sainted everymom, then discarding her when she ceased to
be of use to them.
"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself," Sheehan tells the Associated
Press. "I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal." We hope that she gets
whatever help she needs toward that end.
--
"Over the summer I had a hysterectomy, and um, I got my "parts" back. I
thought I could just [inaudible] on eBay, you know, "[inaudible] Cindy
Sheehan's uterus." And so I planted it in the garden where the bush, it's
a pretty bush. . . . It's so funny 'cause me and my children, we'll
always be a part of, of Crawford, Texas. Long after people forgot the
horror of the Bush regime, long after, you know, we're forgotten. We'll
always, our DNA will always be in the land."
--Cindy Sheehan, moral and intellectual leader of the Angry Left