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To: coug who wrote (107767)	8/27/2005 12:05:41 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Cindy Sheehan is too far left, too rambling, too unguarded, and too dysfunctional to make a really good leader for the anti-war movement. She is not particularly articulate and does not seem to be very sophisticated or intellectual or well read. So when she says things about the world situation she makes such a good target for the criticism the Bushies throw her way! There is a lot to be said for honesty in expression when you are with your best friends, but really to galvanize the anti-war feelings in America, you don't want a lot of distractions and a figurehead who makes cheap shots so easy. It is all too easy to make her a laughingstock. To me she is a really unappealing spokesperson in every way, and I believe that the anti-war movement is essentially good, because Americans should be having a debate about what to do next in Iraq. Imagine what people who are still on the fence and aren't particularly liberal but are starting to think the war in unwinnable might be thinking. She does not seem to represent them at all. Why does this all have to be focused on the saga of one mother who lost her child in the war? Frankly, more politically conservative mothers/families who feel similarly and are willing to come forward would be much more effective. I have a lot of sympathy for Cindy Sheehan's plight. She lost her son, and I cannot even imagine how much that must hurt. But at the same time she literally abandoned a good job, separated from her husband after a very long marriage, and, according to him at least, her other children really need her right now. I think she has made a lot of decisions during her period of grief that are questionable. Certainly as a mother I have different values than she does. She is definitely acting out, and that is understandable, but she is making her own tragedy worse in some ways by not staying with her family and getting marriage counseling and grief counseling and probably some individual therapy would be good too. She is sort of unwinding in front of the whole world, and I don't think that is really good for her, and again makes her a target of the right. Why does she have to head the anti-war movement, anyway? It's great that she was very determined, a catalyst. Now I think she needs some private time to heal, while more politically sophisticated professionals come in to better organize the movement and take it to the next level. Not Jane Fonda or Michael Moore! Thank goodness he's staying at the Pritikin fat farm in Florida at the moment, learning some lifestyle changes. The left needs leaders that do not totally annoy so many Americans, people who are articulate but not grating.