Now, Can Casey Sheehan Rest in Peace?

We should avert our eyes when someone goes so publicly insane, but Cindy Sheehan--mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan (USA), KIA in Iraq--won’t let us.

If George Bush truly listened to God and read the words of the Christ, Iraq and the devastation in New Orleans would have never happened. [SNIP]

George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self [sic] from power.

(Emphasis mine.)

I get a lot of whack-job visitors who claim to know what the God of the Bible has up His sleeve and who claim to know what Jesus Christ would say or do. None of them ever seem to have a verse handy, however, or even seem to know where to find an appropriate one on the Internet in order to back up their words (likely, because they have no idea where to look, since they haven't opened up a dead-tree version in a while, if ever). They say “God hates you because of this,” or “God wouldn’t like it if you did this,” or “God is punishing you because of this.” Ms. Sheehan words fall in this category; she speaks of a God, a Christ that I don’t recognize by the description she gives of His (Their) behavior and reasoning. (Of the former, I only know what I read. Of the latter, the only thing I know is that His ways aren't my ways; nor are they Cindy's ways.)

And occupied New Orleans? ::::snort:::: There isn’t much one can do with that.

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The sad thing is that losing her son has apparently driven Cindy Sheehan (even farther) around the bend. She has become a spectacle, a limelight addict; not caring how she gets on that stage. And having been eclipsed by a city-destroying perfect storm, she acts boldly to re-assert her place in the light even if it means evoking a vengeful God, spewing the nonsensical, and stating the exact opposite of the leftist talking points in order to bash and blame President Bush. No stinking storm and a bunch of homeless black people are going to steal her show, no sirree. At least not for very long.

The frightening thing (not to me) is that leading leftist lights and Bush opponents like Michael Moore and Arianna Huffington would allow such madness to be posted without comment on their respective sites. Is this sort of thing supposed to convince anyone to come around to their way of thinking? The Coast Guard have been plucking people off rooftops almost since the levees broke. The Army—both Guard and AD—swooped down and fed, clothed and evacuated those souls in the Superdome and the Convention Center and are now helping to recover the dead mothers, fathers and/or children of someone and will eventually help in the clean-up. Is this what Mrs. Sheehan calls an occupation (never mind the stupidity of a country occupying itself)? Is this what she's calling for an end to?

See that moral authority slip through Mrs. Sheehan's fingers.

(Thanks to darn near everyone)

Comments

[Anna]

Geez! Does she not have any friends or family to pull her away from the cameras and microphones?

As far as Micael Moore and Ariana Huffington, well they have said similarly whacko things, so they would never critisize a fellow nut.

[StinKerr]

I'm thinking that she has more people around her to keep her in place and on message. They're not going to let anyone pull her away from this. Karl Rove couldn't hire this kind of self-loathing moonbattery.

As long as she's bashing Bush she's regarded as an oracle by those folks, no matter how insane her rantings get. Just look at some of the other LLL.

[teal marie]

Her mania is escalating. She's going to hurt someone or herself if she isn't stopped. I'm thinking self-emoliation or some other hippy era flashback. She has a very strong need to punish someone, something for her pain. Nobody in her camp dares to thwart her at this point. It could be the flash point. And besides, she has Sharpton's blessing. Next stop: Sainthood.

[Merry Whitney]

Almost everyone who alludes to Ms. Sheehan, left or right, prefaces the remarks with something about her "obvious grief." Un uh.

I've seen grief. And that isn't what it looks like.

What it looks like is a form of megalomania that expects and demands top billing on another person's epitaph.

Not real common, thankfully, but not exactly rare either; witness the "9/11 widows."

But that Sheehan actively used her dead son's limelight-fallout to aid and support the mentality and forces he died fighting against ... well, that is just too wretched and pitiful to even waste scorn on.

Merry

[GREGORY]

New Orleans is a quagmire, we should pull FEMA out not.

[t-ham]

Dear Cindy,

As your statement clearly shows, you are aware of the disaster that struck the gulf coast. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my condolences on your realization that you are not, despite your fervent hope and obvious relish, the penultimate victim, the premier embodiment of grief, or the focus of all America's concern and compassion.
Difficult as it may be, and contrary to what your closest advisors have pumped into your head, you must come to the realization that you are just an ordinary(well, not really) person with no monopoly on martyrhood. In fact your loss pales in comparison to that experienced a thousand times a day, in a thousand places, by thousands of other ordinary people.
Do not for one minute think that I attempt to diminish the service and death of your brave son, a MAN who made his decisions freely.
I honor him in a way reserved for those who unselfishly rise above themselves for the common good.
But the world shows the hollowness of your stand on a daily basis, you have no right to demand we watch you parade before us in your self-anointed fantasy of importance.
Your son matters to me, you do not.

[Iron Mike]

J-
And don't forget the Special Operators from here at Hurlburt Field who have to date:
People rescued: 1,395;
Relief cargo delivered: 13,000 pounds;
Hours flown: 257.9;
Sorties flown: 70;
Fuel delivered: 70,800 pounds;
(Gotta put a plug in for my guys!)

[karrde]

You're right on, Juliette, about people mis-using the name of God to amplify their voice.

And I agree with StinKerr--she probably does this because she is egged on by people who want her to continue to claim the limelight. Whether they are cold cynics who use her or people who share her delusion, they desire to keep her in the public eye.

[DarkStar]

Everyone should let the woman be.

Really.

She really needs prayers, not contempt.

Really.

[ricardo]

maybe im out of it...but wasn't arianna huffington a republican conservative?

[baldilocks]

When she lets the American public be, it sounds like a plan, Darkstar.

ricardo: you are correct.

[Wmscott]

I think the belief in god is important to most people’s lives. Many believe they are in possession of the only god and nobody else counts? Becoming a “True Believer” has blinded anyone, who claims they know what god plans.

Fortunately the god of most of our lives is a caring and forgiving god whom expects you to be an upright person. Someone worthy of trust, that trust is the glue that keeps us living in civilization rather than living in tribes roaming the earth and making war on each other constantly. Not that we don’t just have bigger tribes these days?

If anyone tells you that only “trule believers” can understand what god wants and he thinks you should be one too. You just drop your shit go get in your car or on the bus and never speak to them again. How far would all this crazy crap going on right now continue if more of us just stopped listening to any radicals who claim to be the “True Believers”?
How can the left ever feel romance for such people?
This same romance is causing us to lose our nerve. The Pol's have clay shoes and the tears are starting to cause many of them to lose their nerve. We cannot allow that to happen!

[Attila Girl]

I have pity and contempt for Cindy. Plenty of emotion to go around.

[Skinner]

Its too late for me to think and I havent read anything [above],but Im one of these weirdos that wants to be involved in things im not privy to....... Its seems .... There was this young lad who had gone to the mall with his grandfather!!!
It was quite crowded and Billy became lost...... Luckily he'd benn schooled on what to do in this situation He wandered and wandered until he found a Uniformed Policeman !!! He grabbed him asked him "please mister policeman please help me!!
Ive lost my Grandfather!!!
" We'LL find him, Whats he like Son?" .................
" Royal Crown whiskey and women with big tits"

[w]

Ummm, I think ol' cindy must be suffering from the same problem that President Bush often does: way too many filters on her information.

It sounds like all she is hearing from the moonbat crowd (or maybe just filtered thru the "blazing wacko" nueron in her head!!) is "Bush sent the soldiers to shoot starving black people to protect Wal-Mart in New Orleans". Scary what operating inside a cocoon can do your grip on reality.

Unfortunately for the President this leads him to think that the folks around him are doing their jobs. The solution for him is to grit his teeth, stay up an extra hour and see what the traitor media are saying, watch Fox News, or surf the web.

For Cindy, I'd suggest Thorazine and a family intervention to kidnap her away from the cult of the Moonbatees.

[wayne]

oooppps, forgot to fix the "w" thing

[Kirk]

When my son was sent to the Gulf I told my wife that if anything were to happen to him that under no circumstances was she supposed to talk to anyone from the media about him. That way she could grieve in private and not make her grief a public spectacle. I told her to set the dogs loose on anyone who got too pushy.

Cindy lost a whole lot of support when the ultra left and ultra right joined up with her. Amazing thing is how both groups of extremists share much in common.

[DarkStar]

When she lets the American public be, it sounds like a plan, Darkstar.

No.
I think it's foul.

Pray for the woman. She's hurting. The slime and contempt is sickening.

It's unnecessary.

It's unneeded.

To me, it shows the depths of the trashing of the culture.

Sickening.

[DarkStar]

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[baldilocks]

I'm sorry that you feel that way, Darkstar. I'll just have to get over it.

[DarkStar]

I'll just have to get over it.

So, can you at least pray for the woman's healing?

I have.

[baldilocks]

It's none of your business what I choose to pray for, Darkstar. You should know that.

And I was saying that I'll have to get over the fact that you think calling this woman out for her slanders and lunacies is "foul." Consider it done.

[Phelps]

Okay, so I'm a maniacal rabid libertarian. When they started confiscating guns in NOLA, I thought "now LA is the Occupied Loiuisiana Territory" but I'm still hinged enough that I didn't throw it into a blog post. You are supposed to have a filter between your brain and your fingers and mouth that keeps you civil.

Of course, I'm sure as, as a matter of policy, that they are violating the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th (and maybe the 3rd -- where are they quartering the troops?) has nothing to do with why she is calling it occupied. This is all part of her hatred of the military because of her control issues with her dead son.

[teal marie]

Bizarre and bizarrer: Cindy is threatening Hillary now. Michele Malkin has the scoop. Here's an excerpt -
Mrs. Clinton is "waiting for the best political moment to say" she opposes the war, Ms. Sheehan said during a 15-minute speech. "You say it or you're losing your job," she said, provoking a roar of approval from the audience. Mrs. Clinton, believed to be a possible presidential contender in 2008, has said she supports the war in Iraq and has pushed for a greater troop presence in the country.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SHEEHAN INQUISITION!

It's enough to make a cat laugh.

[Justin]

I don't agree with most of Cindy Sheehan's views, but it's pretty telling the way conservatives are attacking her. The war has been a complete disaster and completely mishandled, but rather than criticize the administration, the right goes after some woman who lost her son in the war.

[StinKerr]

I dunno about "attacking her" it seems to have become more a case of pointing and laughing. How can anyone take her seriously any more?

I don't think that her military expertise is any better than yours, Justin. Which, I believe we established in another thread, consists of reading the NYTimes.

Not that I'm claiming to be a Patton, McArthur, Eisenhower or Rommel myself. I certainly am not.

"occupied New Orleans"?!?!?! [eye roll]

Then there was her antics in Louisiana. The Red Cross had to straighten out her VFP group. They were claiming an affiliation that didn't exist and trying to raise money through the false affiliation.

[Justin]

StinKerr

Yeah--I agree, she is making herself a laughing stock.

As for "military expertise"--I guess you mean the ability to assess whether the administration has carried out the Afghan and Iraq well. Well, if you are saying that from the NYT, Wall Street Journal, Post, the Economist and Foreign Affairs I am unable to make a judgment as to how this administration has been doing (and there is a consensus--I'll let you guess what it is), I have no response for that. I wonder where conservatives get their information--oh yeah, Steve keeps linking me to Weekly Standard articles that blather on-and-on about the WMDs and Iraqi/Al Quada connections. Please, it's time to take your heads out of the sand.

It's funny how the anti-Iraqi war predictions have (sadly) been coming true, while the pro-war ones have turned out, well, to be completely wrong. Here's another sad example:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9379240/site/newsweek/

My only consolation is that conservatives (the ones in power, not real conservatives) have no real ideas, and are unable to execute any ideas they actually have (whatever happened to social security reform? Oh yeah, the liberal media killed it. Smaller government? Bill Clinton's fault.)

[teal marie]

The upside of BDS is that it prepares you for a career as a projectionist.
Justin, methinks you doth project too much.
Tedious of you.
I keep wondering how your brother responds to your stale tripe. Didn't you say he's a Marine? Pray tell.

[Cythen]

She's cracked her block and needs to be put down Ol'Yeller style.

Or, in her grief she's had a complete emotional breakdown, and has no more spinal cord or brain, and the libs have two fingers up her arse like a sock puppet, directing her every move.

I had hoped Katrina washed away her 15 mins of fame, but I was mistaken, unfortunately. What's next, her cat gets run over and it's all Bush's fault? Oy. The woman needs some ativan and alot of counseling.

[mawg]

In about 5 years she'll be on one the 'reality TV' shows; for ex-pseudo-celebs, boxing Monica Lewinsky.

[Justin]

Teal Marie--Yes--my brother has just enlisted. I'm not exactly sure what his time frame would be for going to Iraq, if that happened. I'm extremely proud that he is willing to sacrifice so much for his beliefs. And, yes, he gives me a lot of grief for being so liberal.

Don't get me wrong, I do not think we should pull out of Iraq. Our security depends on the stability of that country, but this administration seems to have bungled the effort. And, while I may seem unreasonably anti-Bush, it's for a reason. I sincerely believe that he has let down the country in almost every way imaginable. And no, I wasn't always so anti-Bush--I almost voted for him in 2000. I didn't like Al Gore, but who is going to be on the Supreme Court is a pretty big issue for me, and that is why I voted against Bush. I supported Bush after 9/11, and I fully supported and do support the war against the Taliban.

I'm pretty typical of my demographic--I believe in free-markets and relatively limited government, with small deficits and fiscal discipline. I also believe that the US is part of the international community and that our national interest depends on having strong allies. Bush has bloated the government, practices non-free market crony capitalism, and has isolated us from the rest of the world. So, if I think that Bush is the worst post-FDR president, what exactly am I supposed to do, support him anyway?

[teal marie]

Justin, listen to your brother. He's wiser than you are. In fact I'd like to hear from him on this blog. Is that possible?