The Quickie on Cindy Sheehan

Dizzy, dizzy heights.
Spin! Spin! Spin!

— Uschi Classen, “Dizzy Heights”

The Left and the Right are both full of sour milk on this Cindy Sheehan situation. The Right bashes her and says she’s dishonoring her son. The Left jumps on her back as the leader of Bush’s Fall. Both are equally dispicable and vile. Once again, here we are in America putting the Hollywood production on everything. Spinning, spinning, spinning! Everyone’s becoming an opportunist to blast each other over Cindy Sheehan’s little protest. Blah!

Cindy Sheehan lost her son in a war. Regardless of what she said the first time to President Bush and what she is saying know, she’s entitled to be a little crazy. Not everyone deals with grief the same way. So stop using her! Both sides! ENOUGH!

What the hell are we proving? That you can assassinate regular person’s character to stop “facists apologists”? That you can make President Bush resign and punish the Right? Spare me that rubbish. The troops will fight on regardless of Cindy Sheehan’s protest and the Hollywood news productions of Sheehan outrage and Sheehan love. In the end, we all look like jerks.

[zing! to Dean Esmay]

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UPDATE!

Oh goody! I’ve received my first hate mail. And only 36 posts into my solo blogging career. I digress. I e-mailer by the name of Zach Bledsoe sends me this loveliness:

You aren’t fit to live under the stars and strips. Cindy Sheehan is a traitor and those that give her a free pass are traitors also. AND THAT MEANS YOU! Traitors should always be terminated no matter what the circumstances. But our country is ran by a bunch of pansies that they miss the obvious. Many of you Afro-Americans are Marxists anyway so it doesn’t surprise me in the least when you blabber on lovingly about traitors and despots. Hell’s waiting for you and your anti-Americanism.

Sorry sir. But The Land of Ovaltine and Grape Nuts awaits me when I pass into the great Unknown. Don’t get it twisted. As to his other comments, all I have to say is the following:

R.I.F.

Reading Is Fundamental. And Mr. Bledsoe, your no fundamentalist. So don’t hurt yourself reading my post again. Timber!!

3 Responses to “The Quickie on Cindy Sheehan”

1. Dean Esmay says:

   August 14, 2005 at 7:33 am

   Dude: Are “we” doing this to her? Or is she doing it herself, by going way out of her way to draw attention to herself, and also to allow herself to be surrounded by, and treated like a hero by, people who are using them for their political ends?

   It’s sort of like saying, “don’t say anything about that person who is jumping up and down and demanding we pay attention.” I tried just shrugging and it wasn’t enough.

   Ms. Sheehan is asking for this attention. What’s more, she speaks as if there is no honor in what her son did, in what his comrades in arms are doing. She calls it nothing but “killing.” And whether she realizes it or not, that does make her a fascist propagandist–for it plays into the hands of the fascists who wish to oppose democracy, who wish to oppose women’s rights, minority rights, who portray all our people as doing as “occupation” and who murder innocent Iraqis every day.

   Read again Mohammed’s statement that I quoted. Here is a man in Iraq who lived under the fascists who now seeks freedom and democracy for his country against the fascists. Cindy Sheehan wants to see that ended–she says she wants it to stop. We should stop protecting the Iraqi people? We should stop helping them construct a Constitution and elect their own government?

   I do not see how saying these things is attacking her. She has asked for the attention. Now she is getting a response–answering her charges, showing her what she seems to be missing.

   That’s all I’m trying to do, anyway. I’m not mad at her. Let her say all the mean things about Bush she wants. But she, and those who support her, need to think hard about what she is advocating.
2. Ghostrider says:

   August 14, 2005 at 8:40 am

   Cindy Sheehan is doing nothing more than dishonering her son and his memory. I understand her grief, but to betray her son’s memory and his personal honor for her own satisfaction is beyond belief. She wants a perfect idealistic world that can never happen as long as there are different people. My guess is her son was moved by the actions of 9/11 and wanted to be part of hunting down these terrorist and bringing them to justice. Unfortunately Iraq was a terrorist country whose people were opressed by a cruel sadistic dictator. If we in this country are ever in that position, I would hope that somewhere in this world another country would care enough to come to our aid.
3. T-Steel says:

   August 14, 2005 at 10:34 am

   Dean: As I said, she is entitled to be a little “crazy”. She is affecting herself. That is a given. What I am saying is that we, the media (I’m including bloggers) have made this issue bigger than what it is. We are using this woman’s “craziness” as a platform to make points. In the process, demonization and over praise has happened. Personally I’m quite offended that the death of a Sheehan’s son has taken on political ramifications and we can’t be decent about it. She isn’t going to see what’s missing because her grief has blinded her. She doesn’t have a son and as time passed it has fueled her anger at President Bush. Plain and simple. Your right Dean, we can’t just leave Iraq and leave people like Mohammed hanging. But to demonize or over-praise this woman, this grieving American citizen, is too much in my opinion. I know you have read what people are saying about her. It’s too damn much. Personally I’m not ready to call a grieving mother a “fascist propagandist” for peaceful dissent yet. Now Michael Moore’s a different story. Dean, you have made your points about the Iraq War before Cindy Sheehan (damn good ones). We don’t need this woman to do our “media job”.

   Ghostrider: What I said to Dean.