Cindy Sheehan: Bound But Unglued
Posing with a cross to promote her book? Besides being in poor taste, Cindy risks offending the few “secular progressives.” And we know how important that is; just ask Wal-Mart.
“After spending scorching August days with hundreds of war protesters at her makeshift camp near President Bush’s Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan slipped away each night to her tent or RV for a few quiet moments on her laptop.
The words came easily as she opined about the war, U.S. leaders, her critics, her supporters. And the tears started to flow no matter how many times she wrote about her 24-year-old soldier son Casey, who died in Iraq last year.”
In what reads like an emotional press release from Cindy Sheehan’s publisher, the Associated Press passes off as news.
Now those journal entries are in her book, “Not One More Mother’s Child,” to be released Wednesday. The paperback also contains some of her speeches to peace groups earlier this year, letters to politicians and writings since leaving Crawford.
“I never wrote anything more than a note to excuse my kids from school before Casey was killed, so to see something I wrote in print with my name on it is amazing,” Sheehan told The Associated Press by phone from her home in Berkeley, Calif.
Oh. Please. Seeing her name in headlines seems to be an ongoing motivation. And she’s not camera shy, either.
Sheehan shares details about Casey, her oldest child grew up to be an Eagle scout who considered becoming a priest. He enlisted, Sheehan said, to give something back to the country.
“He didn’t enlist to be used and misused by a reckless commander in chief who sent his troops to preemptively attack and occupy a country that was no imminent threat or any threat to our country,” she writes.
Such editorializing of her son’s feelings. If only Casey could speak for himself, like this young soldier. According to earlier reports, he made the decision to enlist against his mother’s wishes and for his own reasons. Maybe that says something about their differences in viewpoints.
In a chapter called “The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford, Texas,” Sheehan chronicles the daily events of the protest, such as being bombarded with media interviews, the campsite wedding of two peace activists and visits from celebrities Martin Sheen, Joan Baez and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Yes, we remember.
First, the book. Next, the movie? Selling “peace” at the expense of war. Shameless. But she needs the money.
No wonder she’s friends with Michael Moore.
UPDATE: (11/22)
Political Teen: Cindy Sheehan Writes Letter to Barbara Bush (VIDEO)
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November 20th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
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November 20th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
What a sick woman.
November 21st, 2005 at 9:16 am
Like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Hillary Clinton, the DNC/MSM appoint these people as HANDLERS to herd Kool-Aid drinkers into the fold. Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, and Heather McDonald can’t be bought off to herd sheep. I wrote about this here and here.
Yeah, as the DNC/MSM cultivates Cindy (like Jesse & Al) the way molesters cultivate addled children, she’s someone to be pitied. However, when she cultivates other children she becomes the exploiter.
I fear that we’ll be chasing down this legacy for a long time.
CB
November 22nd, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Barbara Bush’s Son Killed Cindy Sheehan’s Son
Can someone honestly think this way and say these immoral and unforgivable things to a fellow American mother? Could this letter possibly be real?
October 21st, 2007 at 7:29 pm
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