Priorities, Priorities - the Cindy Sheehan situation

There's something that George Bush just doesn't understand, that Cindy Sheehan is trying to teach.

Cindy Sheehan is trying to teach him, and many others, that you don't stop being a mother when your child dies. And something is very wrong in America with people who want to insist you should.

Something is very wrong in America when the President can meet with large campaign contributors but not the mother of a fallen soldier right at the end of his driveway.

Something is very wrong in America when the President can leave his vacation to sign an energy bill that he himself admits will do nothing to either lower gasoline prices or reduce our energy dependence, but can't meet with the mother of a fallen soldier sitting at the end of his driveway.

Something is very wrong in America when the President can take a five week vacation, while giving a speech that reminds the country no less than eight times that "We are at war", and then ignores the tragic and inevitable consequence of that war, even as she is sitting at the end of his driveway.

Something is very wrong in America when the phrase "We are at war", means the death of a child for some people, and "let me hold your coat while you go and fight a war that I started" for other people. And the people who started the war refuse to acknowledge the injustice of that choice, even as it sits at the end of the driveway.

Something is very wrong in America when people think that sacrifice means a magnetic yellow ribbon, when it actually means a combat ribbon. And the cars embossed with those magnetic ribbons drive right by the mother of the fallen soldier who got his combat ribbon posthumously as she sits at the end of the driveway.

Something is very wrong in America when the President who claims moral authority, from a party that touts the moral high ground at every opportunity, and yet refuses to recognize the absolute and unrelenting moral authority of the mother of a fallen soldier.

Even as that mother is sitting at the end of his driveway. Every day. Every night. In the rain, and the cold, in the heat and the dark.

Something is very wrong in America. And Cindy Sheehan is working to make it right. Because you don't stop being a mother when your child dies.

written by: Casey Morris, DCProject

 

If this is that damn woman who is protesting W's handling of her sons case, stop reading...

This woman is a liar. A year ago when she actually met Bush, she came out of the meeting calling Bush "a great man" and saying that he had made their family feel wonderful for the first time since her son's death...

FAST FORWARD TO NOW:

She now claims he was an ******* and didn't pay any attention to her...

I feel for her and what happened to her son, but there is obviously something wrong with this lady...

 

keep playing the emotional card, and you are eventually no better than a child who cannot yet reason.

breaking down into an emotional child is forgivable if your son gets killed in a war. otherwise you should be able to analyze issues with reason and not emotion. so what if a woman is a lunatic, i excuse her because of the circumstances, but i dont care what she says.

 

Something is very wrong b/c this lady met with Bush two months after her son was killed.

Something is very wrong b/c this lady told a California newspaper after her meeting with Bush that "I now know [President Bush] is sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss."

Yes, Something is very wrong here. Don't be shocked when we find out that the likes of Michael Moore is behind this stunt.

I feel sorry for her loss. I also feel sorry for her b/c people are using her for political gain.

 

That's excellent, Mystikalilusion.

One can argue that Mrs. Sheehan is not entitled to a private audience with King George, but I truly wonder who is advising him at the moment to ignore her. This is costing him some big PR points.

Frankly, he looks like a coward.

 

nothing like a stupid emotional article to jerk the liberals.

 

You should rethink that...

 

She said neither of those things.

 

Yes she did. When the article was written, she said nothing. If the original article was a lie, she obviously would have said so at the time...

Not a year later when she has avoided talking about the original article and her original quotes...

Do you know her or something? Were you there?

 

that lady should go to baghdad and sit on driveway of the bastards that shot her kid.