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Cindy Sheehan Resigns as ‘Face’ of the American Antiwar Movement
Well, sports fans, at roughly the same time I was putting together my article concerning the media ignoring Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democrat Party, the antiwar heroine was expressing similar sentiments at Daily Kos.
In a piece entitled “Good Riddance Attention Whore,” Sheehan literally tore apart those who used to fawn over her so adoringly (h/t Charles at LGF).
After a brief introduction, Cindy shared feelings about her role as an antiwar spokesperson that many on the right have been expressing for almost two years (emphasis added throughout):
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system?
However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of “right or left”, but “right and wrong.”
Fantastic. Sheehan concluded:
This is my resignation letter as the “face” of the American anti-war movement. This is not my “Checkers” moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.
Good-bye America …you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.
It’s up to you now.
Think the media will report this announcement?
Regardless, as Charles Johnson concluded in his piece about her resignation, “On this Memorial Day, we honor Casey Sheehan’s sacrifice.”
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She’s a troll and good night now! The Dems have to be happy! Good news for them. Maybe they asked her in the good of their cause to exit! Hmmmmm food for all you cosn piracy people out there…Wait those are Dems…nope no conspiracy this time it would hurt the left!
Democrats avoided her like the plague. both parties are owned and do not represent the american people. We’ve been invaded from within by traitors to our country.
Cindy has paid a price in many ways. I don’t think she was a realist though. With the Dems holding a slim majority and unable to override the chimp, it will be a choice of going forward in small steps. If congress had pressed their case for a withdrawl now, it would have failed and helped no one. They have already made their point on the first war funds bill and can use that in the future to press for more democratic seats and the presidency in the next election. To me, they have been realists, although there will always be some extremists. Remember that traditionally to win a primary you have to appeal to the fringe, as those will be the majority voters in the primary. This will never change until the moderates begin to vote in the primary. That is when true progress can be made.
Not surprised. They are fair weather sheeple!
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