Sheehan says “I quit!”, both political parties cheer
Everyone’s favorite liberal, Cindy Sheehan, has now publicly announced that she is quitting the Democratic Party because they haven’t done enough to end the war. My thoughts - who cares?But, since I really, really dislike St. Cindy (hate is too harsh a word), I’ll play along with the requisite mocking. Here we go!
From her post yesterday at the Daily Kos, with any grammar and spelling errors all hers:
I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed…
No, your son’s death had nothing to do with the so-called smear and hatred. Your using his death to vent your socialist views was what caused that hatred.
…and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such “liberal blogs” as the Democratic Underground. Being called an “attention whore” and being told “good riddance” are some of the more milder rebukes.
Oh please, the liberals have been running away from your ass for some time now. You’re a nut case and most of them understand that.
I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning.
Oh man, this ought to be good.
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.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but you were. They didn’t give a crap about you. They just saw you as the poster mother with the “absolute moral authority”.
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.
Yeah, you were no longer the poster mom. Sorry to burst your bubble, Cindy.
…It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party.
Hmm, try looking at the current party leaderships. That should have given you a clue.
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an “attention whore” then I really need to be committed.
Well, everyone around here does think you’re a nut job. So yeah, you may be right.
I have spent every available cent I got from the money a “grateful” country gave me when they killed my son…
Who killed your son? Was he a murderer put down in the electric chair? No, he was killed fighting this country’s enemies.
…and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.
Hey, that’s your deal. No one asked you to do all that. I don’t even think Casey would have asked you to do all that. We all make choices in our lives, and you made seriously poor ones. You enjoyed the limelight and your 15 minutes, and now you’re regretting it. Boo friggin’ hoo.
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think.
Gosh, where do I start? No, your son wasn’t killed by his country. He was a volunteer soldier who died as a soldier, serving his country. You may hate your country, but he probably didn’t. And really, controls what we think? That’s not true, or else the blogosphere would be empty save for conservative, support the war blogs. In fact, liberal blogs tend to have greater readership than conservative blogs.
It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.
What the hell are you talking about? What, you forced him to join the Army? He was an adult, he made his own choices in life.
I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway?
OK, that I had to chuckle at. What, no love in the peace movement? Say it isn’t so!
George Bush will never be impeached because if the Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own graves and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.
Now we are in agreement. That’s the smartest thing you’ve said so far. Although, I think the analogy is “skeletons in closets”, but I get your point.
I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.
Holy crap! “Paradigm”? “Rigidly mendacious marble”? That’s some big words there Cindy! Good thing you saved those for last!
This is my resignation letter as the “face” of the American anti-war movement…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.
A couple of thoughts. First, who said we wanted “your” kind of America? From what I can tell, that’s a Marxist America. Second, as countries go, we could be a whole heck of a lot worse. Last I heard, millions of people were sneaking into America, rather than out.
Well, goodbye Cindy. You were always great blog fodder and for that, I will miss you. I mean, how many people publicly announce that they buried their uterus in Crawford, Texas?
UPDATE - The Politico has a good synopsis of Sheehan’s journey through the anti-war movement - and who she managed to piss off along the way.
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Personally, I think it is all about the money - no one is footing her bills anymore. She went too far as the ‘foul-mouthed’ grieving Mom and the left money managers didn’t want to be associated with her either.
She is a sad figure, but she makes me so angry that I have a hard time feeling badly for her for very long.
the comments at Kos were a hoot though!
Couldn’t have happend to a nicer lady
Sure wish she would quit feeling sorry for herself…