Nice article in local online paper on Sheehan

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_70738.asp

Snip: <Cindy Sheehan is conducting a personal vigil at the end of the driveway to George W. Bush’s sprawling 1,600-acre Texas residence. She wants an audience, and she wants it now, with George W. to ask him a few questions and to engage in a polite discussion about the cause and effect of his Iraq War. To date, George W. has been a no-show. I am always puzzled by big tough guys who claim to want to teach all the bad guys of the world a lesson, but at the same time they shrink from a meeting with an unarmed, middle-aged woman sitting in the shade on a hot August day in a folding chair and wearing culottes. If this menace scares them so much, what would happen if they really had to go toe-to-toe with a very, very bad guy not so delicately dressed? George has avoided using the driveway since the vigil began. Fortunately, he has a personal helicopter to make trips to the drug store and to sign mega-bucks bills related to oil and transportation that are not likely to help the average consumer at all in the near future, but will put gobs of bucks in the hands of his corporate cronies in a hurry. Let’s see, is there a tie between oil and transportation? Oh, I get it. George can peer down at Mrs. Sheehan from the chopper and wish that she would go away.

So much for the average citizen’s right to have a face-to-face with their elected officials. Once some people get elected in this country they start acting like they had some divine right to hold the position.

George W. can probably safely duck one woman for awhile, maybe forever. But what if another mother with a son killed in the Iraq War joins Cindy Sheehan? What if two join? Three? Four? Five? Six? What if some children whose fathers aren’t coming back join the crowd? What if all the people in Iraq who have needlessly had family members killed by George’s actions find a way to get to Texas? Crawford could start looking like a big city. What if the father of an American daughter killed in Iraq joins the growing metropolis? George might consider moving to New Mexico.>

More at the link...

[CottonBear]

1. Hey ya'll: we need to e-mail Mr. Parker with a rebuttal to his response

to the opinion article by Bart Whiteman. I don't know how to post online in response to the original article.

Here is the freeper's post and his e-mail address!
(Ya think he's been listening to RW hate radio and TV?):
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Well, I for one support the soldiers. But I do remember.. and I even researched it. Ms. Sheehan last year, after she got home from her son's memorial service, praised Bush for being caring and understanding and had met with him in Washington.

It amazes me that Michael Moore talks to her... and then she now is opposing a man who less than a year ago she was a big supporter of. Gotta love it.

Jerry Parker
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