Sheehan Calls It Quits

[legion]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/cindy_sheehan

"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."

[lendaddy]

We were so close Cindy.....don't......don't go.

[Leland Pate]

She will be missed.

[legion]

Originally posted by Leland Pate
She will be missed.

But my aim is getting better.

[Rot 911]

"When she had first taken on Bush, Sheehan was a darling of the liberal left. "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," she wrote."

Imagine that.

[Nostril Cheese]

"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."

I do agree with this statement.

[Rot 911]

Sadly enough, I do too.

[Jeff Higgins]

But she is not really leaving. Unless one considers moving back to California "leaving" America...

If this truly is "no longer the country she loves", then she should consider really leaving. Maybe she can move to one she "loves" more.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to work on this one, warts and all, without throwing our arms in the air and giving up. And without the unproductive, silly little tantrums characteristic of her cause in particular and most of the left's causes in general. Like the spoiled little child she is, we ignored her long enough and she ran out of interest in her foot stomping, arm waving little fit. That's really the only reason she is quiting; she quit getting the attention she craves.

[Overpaid Slacker]

+1 Fred and Kurt. But even a busted-up, dumb, deranged media whore of a clock is right twice a day.

ATEOTD, she's another loony, leveraged by the left/media until her baggage got too heavy. See also: Joe Wilson, Michael Bellesiles, Ward Churchill, et. al. ad. naus.

JP

[Z-man]

Jeff:
Well said.

-Z

[hardflex]

She said this too, why did you guys leave this out?


"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,'" the diary says.

Sheehan criticized "blind party loyalty" as a danger, no matter which side it involved, and said the current two-party system is "corrupt" and "rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."

and

She said the most devastating conclusion she had reached "was that Casey did indeed die for nothing ... killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think."


She's right about those things, too.

It's becoming a myth that people can work grassroots to change our government. Entrenched interests will derail it every time.

[legion]

Originally posted by hardflex
It's becoming a myth that people can work grassroots to change our government. Entrenched interests will derail it every time.

If her message was universally appealing, I think she would have succeeded. Instead, her message was polarizing and myopic.

[stevepaa]

It was not the mesage, it was the messenger that was attacked.


As always.

[Overpaid Slacker]

Originally posted by hardflex
She said this too, why did you guys leave this out?

"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,'" the diary says.

Because I won't be lectured on "right and wrong" by someone who celebrates the actually tyrannical, murderous regimes of Castro and/or Chavez.

Originally posted by hardflex
Sheehan criticized "blind party loyalty" as a danger, no matter which side it involved, and said the current two-party system is "corrupt" and "rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."

Does the chief clinical specimen for Bush Derangment Syndrome have any standing to decry "blind" anything? Let alone the moral compass or even awareness of irony in declaring the US a fascist wasteland, while embracing Cuba or Venezuela as social and political archetypes? "Nary a check or balance"? She's a poet, a vox clamatis in deserto? No, she uses hyperbole as "fact" and mistakes fervor for reason.

She's a moonbat, just as f*cked-up crazy, directionless and blathering as the American Idol fans she decries. If her son didn't, by his death, build her a cross upon which she so spectacularly and incoherently threw herself, nobody, anywhere, ever, would have put a microphone in front of her sagging face. We have the MSM and their agenda to thank for this creation.

Frankly, the last quote is just too stupid to respond to.

JP

[lyon]

http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/may/video/dnB20070529a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=

War Made Easy.
interesting spin

[hardflex]

Lyon, can't watch that, what is it?


Slacker-

too stupid to respond to? I suspect you know better, but if not do a little research on oversite of these emergency spending bills, if you care to get another opinion. it's up to you

[lyon]

It is a Real Player file, here is the link to the whole site.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/29/1322235

[widebody911]

Sheehan, like Rosie, has more fans on the right than the left. We ignore her, why can't you guys do so as well?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by widebody911
Sheehan, like Rosie, has more fans on the right than the left. We ignore her, why can't you guys do so as well?

Several Right Wing groups made donations to Sheehan's cause to help keep her going.

[ronin]

we did. why the hell do you think she quit?