I have no idea how a picture of Eric Idle got attached to a post about Cindy Sheehan. The matter is under investigation.
Cindy Sheehan is still protesting the war in Iraq. And yes, she’s still protesting outside former President Bush’s house.
Around 50 people joined anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan as she led a brief protest Monday afternoon near former President George W. Bush’s Dallas home.
Sheehan’s 21-year-old son, Casey, was killed in the war in Iraq. She staged a prolonged demonstration outside Bush’s ranch near Crawford, Texas, in 2005. She said her issues with Bush did not end with his presidency.
“Her issues” didn’t end, period.
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“I have no idea how a picture of Eric Idle got attached to a post about Cindy Sheehan. The matter is under investigation.”
They look similar?
the truth is, she is being driven by Pure Unadulturated Hatred. Not exactly hatred of War (then she would be equally mad at the terrorists), but Hatred of Bush.
Kit,please don’t insult Eric Idle
I apologize. I must be punished
If I recall correctly,Casey Sheehan was killed on his 3rd voluntary tour of duty in Iraq.It is shameful that a mother would besmirch the memory of her brave son.
Once you’ve accepted the Truth that George Bush is responsible for all evil in the world, both before and after his administration, it all makes sense. Take for instance, the recently revealed story of Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, who spied for Castro back in the 1970s, because of their indignation about Bush: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/06/023764.php
Sheehan has openly said she has no qualm with her son’s murderers. She considers them righteous, which means to me, she’s openly rooting for the other side. She’s also a vitriolic anti-semite.
Honestly I thought that picture was Cindy Sheehan just with her makeup on.
This is not about her son’s memory at all and it never was. He was a spring board for another aging hippy trying to relive their glory years of protesting for the sake of protesting. If memory serves didn’t she not have a relationship with her son and the father had custody? I could be wrong there but I seem to recall reading that before.
Of course she is an aging hippy. She is also a narcissist and the protests were always about her. Thats how these hippy are.
Cindy Sheehan’s son was killed at a young age. Too young. We can’t know for sure, but based on what we know about him he died doing what he wanted to do, and he fully understood the risk of his service, and gladly shouldered that burden to be of service to his country. By all accounts he was a great man.
The death of one’s offspring is almost impossible for a caring parent to process. It seems like Cindy Sheehan became “unhinged” by her son’s death, but I can’t pretend to know what’s in her mind.
This is all a long way of saying I try to avoid stories about this woman. I don’t feel good about passing judgement on her because it’s judgement of a woman who is probably not “in her right mind.” I know she seems determined to bring attention upon herself, but I think we are witnessing mentally unhinged behavior on a national stage. The real tragedy is that those close to her are not able to convince her to get the medical help and counseling she so obviously needs.
Rufus I’d feel the same way if her pain was about losing Casey. But its not and never was. As a military wife I feel very proper in passing judgement. SHe needs to honor her son by going away.
You know, Rufus, I work with a lot of parents who have lost children, from pre-birth up to adulthood. The thing is, to a certain extent, you choose how you will do your grief. I watch people make choice after choice to live in anger and bitterness because that is how they validate their grief. It’s like if they live a live of love, joy and hope, it will diminish the significance of the child’s life and that’s just wrong.
She could choose to protest the war with dignity and I would not think it was wrong. Her stunts down in Crawford didn’t even bother me as much as the media’s attention of them. But to make it her mission in life to punish Bush for her son’s death is wrong. If this is really about peace, she needs to spread her love around to include protesting the current admin.
That’s what I think of Nancy Grace and her “mission” on her CNN show. She funneled her anger into what looks like hate and she’s become a cartoon.
I saw this the other day and thought about posting it for yall. She’s a piece of work.
I was stunned when I heard she was still protesting Bush, very curious why she is not vs 0 and his continuation of said war of lies. He’s even doing a surge, which would mean LOTS more mother’s sons, instead of NOT ONE MORE.
Brandon, I had heard some of that too, but looking around couldn’t find anything.
On a semi-related (and much more upbeat) note, friend of Threedonia Jack Marino recently had his son return from his just completed tours of duty in Iraq. Glad he’s home safely and looking forward to finally meeting a real American hero soon!
That is awesome news!
That is great news for Jack. Gonna send him a pm.
The truth is that I sympathize with her. She’s gone through every parent’s worst fear, and it’s obviously broken her. She’s clearly mentally ill, and that and losing her son quickly destroyed her family. That’s a terrible, terrible thing that no one should have to go through, and I really do feel sorry for her. She’s become a pathetic little thing, and I really do feel pity for her.
What really makes me mad about this, and reflects badly on our society, is that it was *Always* obvious that she was mentally ill to anyone who listened to her talk, and yet the media made a saint of her, played in to her obsessions, used her, egged her on, and I presume-wihout-knowing that at no point did any reporter give her the number of a good shrink, or try to help her out because that would be “Interfering with the story,” and why shoot the goose that lays the golden soundbite?
And now that her usefulness has past, she’s *still* gibberingly crazy, but she’s been cast aside by the media. Her obsession was newsworthy when it suited their agenda, and quickly dropped when the republicans were no longer a threat. So she’s left alone, loudly insane, and presumably getting worse, and the people that used her don’t give a damn, because, in the end, that’s what using people is all about, right?
So really the media bugs me a whole lot more than she ever did. Bastards.
Republibot, I agree with what you wrote. That’s what I meant when I wrote I try to avoid her. This isn’t a story about the validity of the Iraq war. What she says or does is beyond opinion, because hers are not the actions of a stable woman. This is a woman off the rails. Was she off the rails before her son died? I have no idea. Would her son approve of what she’s doing? I have no idea.
The last thing she needs, and the last thing she has ever needed, is people sticking cameras and microphones in her face, even if she was begging for them to do so.
Well since she was divorced from Casey’s Dad I’d say he couldn’t deal with her shtick. I feel bad for him, not her. Look she needs help, somewhere in her patchouli funked up mind she knows it. She won’t do it because she needs to be seen, she needs the validation. I am reading a book about celebrity narcissism and how it seeps into the rest of culture. I would say and I am no expert that Sheehan displays all of the symptoms of the narcissistic personality disorder. What you have to understand underneath the so called soul moral authority of a mother which she uses to hit W over the head with, she has a lot of self loathing. The whole thing is about her. Not about Casey. I have met many mothers of sons killed and none of them do this. THey don’t twist the deaths of their sons into a cause about them. She is an insult. The fact no one in her family has seen fit to stop her from acting like a Circus freak is shameful. Perhaps her former husband has tried but we don’t know. All I know is she needs to be hospitalized and dealt with. I don’t know if you can make yourself mentally ill or if you alredy have tendencies towards it if the illness come full bore…..she obviously has no idea what she looks like or has an ability to regulate her behavior.
When the Sheehan story first exploded, I steered clear of criticizing her personally. I would, however, always point out the flaws in her story (mainly that she had met with President Bush, and that contemporary newspaper accounts made it clear that she was grateful to him.
And when it became clear that the left was completely exploiting this poor, mentally ill woman, I sympathized with her entirely, and I ignored her.
But then I saw a picture of her being arrested at a protest in Washington, DC.
And it suddenly dawned on me that this was not a woman undone by anguish over her son. She’s a narcissist who loves the attention. And I have much less sympathy for her now.
Mike-If you multiply all this with Ms. Sheehan by ten thousandfold, you’ll have what was going on during the years of the Viet Nam war.
Sorry,Rufus,but you are dead wrong,and Stephanie is dead right.This harridan doesn’t care anymore about her son than I do a squirrel…why isn’t she in front of the White House,where that f*cking blowhard Obama lives,the one who said he was going to immediately pull the troops out of Iraq…ha ha!
@Rufus: Completely agree.
@Stephanie: Assuming she’s on the level, I’d say she’s got a disorder called “Greif Psychosis,” which can cause breaks from relaity independent of any mental problems she may or may not have had before her son died. Of course there’s other possibilities too. I’m not a shrink – but I play one on TV!
@Mike: It is possible that she’s treating this as her meal ticket. It’s also possible that she was originally devestated, and then gradually segued in to treating this as her meal ticket.