Cindy Sheehan's "fast"

[joe king]

John Walsh?

 

[JME]

What about him?

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

He's apparently an attention wart also because he's used the violent death of his son to help other people.

 

[JME]

People are smart.

 

[pallister]

Quote from: tonysoprano on Today at 02:38:28 AM
Whacko to be using her son's death to gain personal fame, glory and riches.

You guys have got to be able to find someone better to shirt on than a middle-aged lady who is a walking open sore.

Makes you wonder if people like you would have called a Rosa Parks twisted, self-serving and/or fame-seeking.

Of course, no political thread would be complete without an implication that anyone and everyone who brings an opposing viewpoint is racist.

I'd think with all those books you read, LJB, you wouldn't keep saying such stupid shirt.

And if you don't think Sheehan's on the fringe, then name all the mainstream Democrats who stand beside her.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Don't mention Cindy Sheehan and Rosa Parks in the same sentence...

I feel terrible about what happened to Sheehan's son. But she is disgracing his memory with her actions. She's turned into an attention wart...

 

[hondo]

John Walsh may be an attention junkie but what he's doing has saved some kids' lives, something you can't say for CIndy Sheehan.

I don't think anyone has criticized her right to speak out and protest and say what she wants. THe issue I have, and the issue many conservatives have, is tha when we criticize her stance, we get ripped ("How dare you criticize a mother who lost her son."). We've got the same rights she does for freedom of speech. Just because she lost a son in a war doesn't elevate her rights over anyone else's. Yet, that's the spiel we get.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like waiting 24 hours to eat is pointless and stupid no matter where you stand politically.

 

[poindexter]

 

[Ace]

You know, this so called diet for wackos reminds me of the peaceniks who went to Iraq before we attacked and were going to pose as human shields. They thought they'd be placed in hospitals and some of the guest rooms of the Republican Guard. Instead, Saddam's boys sent them to the oil infrastructure and the hot, sticky desert. Seems as though many came running home to Mother Sarandon and the other goofballs in this mix.

But oh yes. They represented America well, didn't they? I know some around here are proud of them, many other sickened by them.

They should have been strapped to the fireworks I saw being launched on the lake tonight.

What a bunch of crazy Bolshevik nutniks! What were they thinking!!! The war is going so well and all.

 

[Ace]

Makes sense to me that a woman whose kid dies in combat would want to use it to become famous, rather than lie low and just wallow in the pain of it by herself. That would be the natural response of any parent.

Yeah and what about those Mothers Against Drunk Driving bimbos. What good did they ever do? Damn witches, used to be in this freedom-loving country you could drive with a load on and no one would blink.

Then just because some kids get killed and the media jumps in bed with these women, the cops start enforcing the freakin' laws. There outta be a law against that!

 

[dooley_womack1]

John Walsh may be an attention junkie but what he's doing has saved some kids' lives, something you can't say for CIndy Sheehan.

I don't think anyone has criticized her right to speak out and protest and say what she wants. THe issue I have, and the issue many conservatives have, is tha when we criticize her stance, we get ripped ("How dare you criticize a mother who lost her son."). We've got the same rights she does for freedom of speech. Just because she lost a son in a war doesn't elevate her rights over anyone else's. Yet, that's the spiel we get.

If she helps get us out of Iraq sooner than we would have, that's where the life-saving comes in. Those guys who burned their draft cards and the martyrs at Kent State, they didn't save lives right away. But their helping to make Vietnam politically unpopular eventually had that effect. And yes you have protested her right to protest. You've told her to shut up. You've had not criticized her stance as much as criticized her existence. And no one has said her rights are above anyone else's. People are saying she has every right to do what you would deny her. Successful protest is not a genteel tea party.