Sheehan has her "road to Damascus" moment - better late than never I suppose
By feedback@qando.net (McQ)
The QandO Blog
The "conversion" of Cindy Sheehan, from Democrat and peace activist to just plain peace activist has been alternately funny and, well, something, I’m not sure yet.
Sheehan, if nothing else, has shown us how the media can create a personality out of just about anyone. Given, Cindy Sheehan’s son’s death is not a laughing or joking matter, nor is her grief over it. However it is hard to claim she hasn’t exploited his death as a means for her to push her agenda. And while that may have been acceptable when it seemed her aim was to end the war in which her son died, it has, since then, gone into areas well outside what anyone would nominally claim would be appropriate in that regard. One example of that point would be her visits in support of dictators and enemies of the US, such as Hugo Chavez.
In fact, what has happened to Sheehan is she has evolved from a grieving mother to an irritating activist with an obsession about George Bush. Because of her son and her grief most people were fairly willing to look past the growing obsession. At least for a while. Until, that is, it became more of a political millstone than a boon. That’s part of why she feels ostracized and abandoned by the Democrats. She went from being a mother with the full metal jacket of "full moral authority" to a harpy screeching incessantly about impeachment and hanging out with dictators.
Now I don’t mean this to be a post about excusing the Democrats and their exploitation of Sheehan. Boy did they ever exploit her. In every way, shape and form they could imagine. And they did it knowingly and ruthlessly. In the parlance, she was a ’useful idiot’. Wind her up, pump her full of good rhetoric and point her at a camera and watch the fun begin. But as she began to change and become more obsessed and more shrill, Democrats seemed to find more and more reasons to be elsewhere when she found a camera.
And when she began being photographed with people with whom the Dems weren’t particularly excited about being associated, the crowd and the support began to thin even more. In fact, it thinned so much that Cindy was left standing pretty much alone. Suddenly phone calls to those who’d told her they supported her and were there for her went unanswered. Messages were ignored. Finally, after all these years, it dawned on Sheehan (who I think may be one taco short of a combination plate anyway) what had happened. Her usefulness was ended and with it, her support and her access. Last week, DailyKos cut her off.
Just another bit of political trash, she was left to her own devices.
We’ve already seen the single-mindedness she can exhibit. All one need to do is follow the trail from Camp Casey to now to easily recognize an obsessive personality. You don’t even have to be a psychiatric professional to figure it out.
Her obsessions build constantly. What has happened since the Dems said adios to her is she’s added a new obsessionon top of her old one. Her Bush obsession says that Bush is evil incarnate and the source of all problems in the world. Her new obsession says that her old party [the Democrats], which once claimed to share her Bush obsession and planned, with her help, to do something about it, has abandoned her and the cause. So they now fall into a similar category as Bush.
<<< I was a lifelong Democrat only because the choices were limited. The Democrats are the party of slavery and were the party that started every war in the 20th century, except the other Bush debacle. The Federal Reserve, permanent federal income taxes, not one but two World Wars, Japanese concentration camps, and not one but two atom bombs dropped on the innocent citizens of Japan — all brought to us via the Democrats.
Don’t tell me the Democrats are our "saviors" because I am not buying it — especially after they bought more caskets and more devastating pain when they financed and co-facilitated more of President Bush’s abysmal occupation. The Democrats also are allowing a meltdown of our republic by allowing the evils of the executive branch to continue unrestrained by their silent complicity. >>>
Now anyone with the IQ of a paving stone knows that much of her history is a bit revisionist. For instance I don’t believe any of us would blame "starting" the World Wars on Democrats, although it is an interesting list she’s compiled. And a majority of this country would never agree the first Gulf War was a "debacle". Some Iraqis might, but not Americans. But it shows the level of delusion to which she’s able to commit herself when obsessed. It doesn’t take much to justify herself to herself.
<<< She is single-mindedly determined to find a way to impeach George Bush, and, ironically, she feels that if you’re not with her, as the Democrats now seem not to be, then you’re against her. >>>
All this to say the entertainment value of her psychosis should be something, at least, that might break up the stultifying boredom we’ll probably experience many times during this elections season.
Oh, and keep this in mind as well:
<<< The feedback I have been receiving since I announced that I would challenge U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, for her House seat — unless she gives impeachment the go-ahead — has been running about 3-to-1 positive. >>>
Stranger things have happened.
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