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Alex


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I know we have mixed feelings here about Cindy Sheehan, but she's making a good point about the left's hypocrisy:

By Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent

[Byron received a note from Cindy Sheehan]

 

I read your column about the "anti-war" movement and I can't believe I am saying this, but I mostly agree with you.

The "anti-war" "left" was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the "anti-Republican War" movement.

While I agree with you about the hypocrisy of such sites as the DailyKos, I have known for a long time that the Democrats are equally responsible with the Republicans. That's why I left the party in May 2007 and that's why I ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in 2008.

I have my own radio show, "Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox," and I was out on a four-month book tour promoting the fact that it's not about Democrats or Republicans, but it's about the system.

Even if I am surrounded by a thousand, or no one, I am still working for peace.

Sincerely,

Cindy Sheehan

After receiving the email, I asked Sheehan to give me a call, so I could verify that the note in fact came from her.  She did, and we discussed her plans to protest next week in Martha's Vineyard, where President Obama will be vacationing.  "I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that even if they supported Obama, he doesn't represent much change," Sheehan said.  "There are people still out here who oppose the war and Obama's policies, but it seems like the big organizations with the big lists aren't here."

I asked Sheehan about the fact that the press seems to have lost interest in her and her cause.  "It's strange to me that you mention it," she said.  "I haven't stopped working.  I've been protesting every time I can, and it's not covered.  But the one time I did get a lot of coverage was when I protested in front of George Bush's house in Dallas in June.  I don't know what to make of it.  Is the press having a honeymoon with Obama?  I know the Left is."

After the protests in Massachusetts -- Sheehan told me she has no idea how many people might show up -- Sheehan will be in Washington October 5, for a protest at the White House to mark the eight anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan.  Not only is the president escalating the war there, she said, but he's not withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq as quickly as he originally promised. "That's why I was opposed to him," she said.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/What-happened-to-the-antiwar-movement--Cindy-Sheehan-responds-53628177.html



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Alex, I believe what she is saying and her politicial directions are spot on. I would be so happy if she could be the pants off Pelosi. Real, honest, and hard working representatives are going to be hard to find in 2010. But, we can do it if we work at it.

Cindy is a great choice. Losing her son in war is devastating.

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I have to say this because I will never forgive that woman for what she did to Hillary. I think she helped push this fraud over Hillary because the fraud didn't vote for the war well of course not he wasn't in there. Despite the fact that every single bill that came up for that war after He did get elected to the Senate he voted yea the same as Hillary yet she and her code pink people helped Obama win.
I am glad she is speaking out against the democrats and Obama but she only brought about this herself.
I told you so. 

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Hillarysmygirl16 wrote:

I have to say this because I will never forgive that woman for what she did to Hillary. I think she helped push this fraud over Hillary because the fraud didn't vote for the war well of course not he wasn't in there. Despite the fact that every single bill that came up for that war after He did get elected to the Senate he voted yea the same as Hillary yet she and her code pink people helped Obama win.
I am glad she is speaking out against the democrats and Obama but she only brought about this herself.
I told you so.


Very true.

What I disliked about her and people like her was/is the unwillingness to see the truth of the entire picture. That vote was not a vote for war, but the option to if the Administration at that time found it necessary and as a "last resort".

I have always maintained that the Bush Administrations agenda was their own. They were given that option by congress on good faith that all options would be exhausted before ever going to war. The Administration clearly lied and sold their story to the world. I used the words "good faith" because 9/11 still being so fresh, I truly believe few entertained that we would be lied to.

So for me personally, I still harbor resentment towards her and others like her for failing to see that and simply generalizing anyone who voted in favor including Hillary and using it to vilify them.

 



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Hey CINDY and ALL of YOU CODE PINKERS....

The PUMA's

"TOLD YOU SO!"




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