Bush elects to smear and dodge Cindy Sheehan

[DoYouEverWonder]

August 26 2005

Thirty years from now, we will get a full account of the White House strategy for dealing with Cindy Sheehan. In the meantime, we are obliged to depend on available fragments of information and our past experience with Karl Rove’s smear machine. So far, we know that the president has altered his vacation plans to cope with a sudden and unexpected outbreak of anti-war fever. As he interrupts his five-week summer siesta to resell the Iraq war, a full-scale smear campaign has been set in motion to discredit the lady from Vacaville. The Rove squads are out in force to change the subject and cast doubt on whether Cindy has the qualifications to argue with the president on the merits of this war of choice.

Artful Texan dodgers have been commissioned to paint a canvas portraying a compassionate commander in chief who feels Cindy’s pain but disagrees with her position and her policy recommendations. The desired effect is to convince the public that Sheehan is a distraught uninformed mother of a fallen soldier who needs compassion - not answers. If things go according to plan, Cindy will be perceived as a weak and vulnerable woman who is being victimized and manipulated by the sinister forces on the extreme left – a fringe movement that apparently includes every other American. On the other half of Rove’s canvas, the spin meisters will project a resolute president who wants to ‘stay the course’ and ‘complete the mission’ to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice to “fight the terrorists over there before we are forced to fight them over here.” Bush will throw in a couple of obligatory references to 9/11 insinuating that the invasion of Iraq was a legitimate part of the ‘war on terror’ – and wrap it up with a bit of fiction about spreading democracy in the Middle East.

While Bush postures as a gallant leader who sympathizes with the families of the fallen, the Rove brigades will be up to their usual mischief in a coordinated malicious campaign to defame Cindy. The full force of their media arsenal is already on display. Acerbic and insolent right wing bloggers, vicious hate radio pundits and the clowns who habitually posture as journalists in the infotainment industry have all united in a sustained attack on the character and motives of one Cindy Sheehan.

Virtually all the mainstream media outlets - including CNN, the wire services, the New York Times and The Washington Post - are engaged in guerrilla assaults against a single citizen who had the courage and audacity to stand up and challenge the war policies of the President of the United States. The only variance is in the tone and acidity of their vocabulary.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/18449

I think Bush is going to find out that it isn't a good idea for a Chicken Hawk to beat up a grieving mother. I mean, how low can you go?

[VegasWolf]

1. “I’m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at

aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as far as I’m concerned!”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml

Time to up the meds!

[Straight Shooter]

2. The smear machine can't hurt Cindy any more than losing her son hurt her.

Losing a child is hard enough. Losing a child for a pack of lies is total hell. So, when you've been through hell, when it feels like you're still in hell because you'll never see your child's face again, what difference does it make if they send demons to attack you?

Casey Sheehan is dead, for no good reason. I would presume to muse that bush is alive for no good reason, but that's up to God to judge him.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. That's why this strategy

is backfiring big time. It's hard to hurt someone whose got nothing left to lose without making yourself look like a complete asshole.

[dubyaD40web]

4. It's always a bad idea to fight with someone who has nothing to lose

They can afford to throw everything at you, to risk it all and come after you with nothing held back and bring down everything you have and hold dear.

Cindy has nothing left to lose. bush and the repubs have everything to lose and nothing to gain - and that's why they're fighting her so hard. How pathetic (for them, and for the Democratic party) that their house of cards is so thoroughly threatened down by one small woman, when nobody else was able do it (or ballsey enough to try) before?

I love the fact that the little bitchboy had to take a vacation from his fucking vacation to get away from her. What an asshole.

(pardon my language, that weaselly little prick playing dress up and pretending to be president has that effect on me)