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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (50928)	9/7/2006 12:39:26 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

The "Peace Mom" has a violent side. Having made that comment, let me add that I have the utmost sympathy for Ms. Sheehan over the loss of her son. It is a terrible thing when a son or daughter passes on before their parents. Her early comments had a certain dignity to them. Unfortunately, she has allowed the media and some of her more vocal supporters to strip her of that dignity. Cindy Sheehan: Confessions of a Dangerous Mom PASSIVE AGGRESSION: SheehanThe right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom. In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush, thereby preventing the Iraq War. In fact, she reveals, her son's death in that war almost drove her to take her own life: "Every night I had to restrain myself from taking my entire bottle of sleeping pills instead of just one." Other targets of her vitriol: • John McCain, whom Sheehan calls a liar for denying that he once responded to her question about why her son had to die by saying, "Well, Cindy, I am afraid it's going to be for nothing, like my buddies in Vietnam." McCain has denied that on another occasion he told her, "You keep doing what you are doing. America needs to hear your voice." • "Baby blue-eyed" Anderson Cooper, whom Sheehan derides for doing a "hatchet job on me and investigating me with a vengeance. He dredged up everything I ever did or said." She says her sister had to be restrained from beating up Cooper at the end of their interview. • John Kerry, whom Sheehan regrets voting for in 2004, saying that she was "unimpressed." • Hillary Clinton, whom she considers "a conservative in liberal clothing... We don't need another powermonger in the White House." • Stephen Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, who smiled when she once asked him, "Do you guys stop and think sometimes, 'Wow, I really work for an idiot'?" By Marcus Baram 09/07/06 8:00 AM radaronline.com