Did he even bother to look out the window? -PIX->>>

[Stephanie]

President Bush's motorcade passes protestors on the side of the road near Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 12, 2005. Cindy Sheehan has been joined by other parents that lost children in Iraq. Sheehan is seeking a meeting with President Bush to discuss the death of her son Casey Sheehan. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050812/480/txlm10308122006

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Pictures are worth a thousand words. Thanks.

[Tim4319]

2. Probably gave them the finger!

You know how good he is with that middle finger of his.

[jackstraw45]

7. Unless his finger was busy elsewhere...

[flakey_foont]

10. SantaMaria!!

that looks like hard work

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Stick with it Cindy! You go!!!

[tjdee]

4. What a spineless punk he is.

Be a man, jerk.

I bet when he gets the poll numbers on it, he'll jump to meet with her.

I wonder if it's possible for me to have less respect for him.

[Rainscents]

5. Great pic!!!

Chimp don't careless about what anyone think, however, as much as he would like to avoid Cindy and everyone else, who is against this war, Chimp can't NEVER escape! We will always be in face!!!

[nookiemonster]

6. Step on it, dammit! She's looking at me.

Gun it Condi!





dickhead

[AuntiBush]

11. Really.

[buddha8]

82. going international

This could become a "Field of Dreams". Invitations to mothers from around the world should go out to all the world news services immediately. They will cover this event unlike much of the corrupt corporate propaganda machine we have here. Cindy could invite the Mothers of England to come on over to Crawford. Imagine that. Just do a story on the front page of the Guardian. Imagine the momentum this would yield. All the mothers of the fallen from any wars could be extended an open invitation; Poland,Czechland,France,Germany, wherever. This could well become an international event and why not. The little bush-turd is a global tyrant who's every bowel movement effects world policy. The wretchedly ugly and foul CondeSleazy Rice spends much of her time off on full scale world lying tours. So why not answer that with a world message of our own. A Coalition of the Mothers of the World. Send out an all points bulletin immediately. No need to worry about whether it gets coverage or no. Murdoch and the American billionaires do not control the presses yet in Germany,France or England.

Just imagine thousands of mothers lined up on that road waving all manner of national flags and standing alongside Cindy for peace. Its time to get started.

[sabra]

8. reco'd

very moving pictures!

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. Wow...they actually DID drive past them.

I figured it was going to be helicopters all the way.

Somebody actually broke through the constant buffering he's had from pissed off people.

I'm not saying it'll make any difference to him, but I want the fucker to see that everybody in this country does NOT worship at his feet.

Scumbag.
FSC

[Generic Other]

12. He was crouched on the floorboards

between Laura and Condi's legs.

[dmr]

21. Oh, the visual n/t

LOL

[tamtam]

13. Naw

They probably put his blankie over his head and gave him some crayons.

[bvar22]

14. Bush* had to drive by ALL those crosses too!

This is a GREAT picture of Cindy!!

[skygazer]

15. This is becoming a PR nightmare for him

Good. I hope it continues to do so and I hope it gives others the courage to start asking tough questions - like maybe the media. What a courageous woman - I can't imagine losing a child and being able to even function let alone electrify the country like this.

[alfredo]

19. It's only going to get worse. Wait for Fitzgerald

to hand down indictments.

[ClintonTyree]

28. I wish........

I get the sinking feeling that there won't be any indictments, that everyone will skate away from this like every other horror they've perpetrated.
I really, really, really hope I'm wrong about this. This gang of criminals deserves nothing less than life in prison, but the deck is stacked against that. They think they're above the law. They're not, but they control the law in this county right now so they may as well be.
bush has no conscience, no sense of moral accountability. He's a soulless cretin, beneath the lowliest creature on earth.

[alfredo]

33. I think indictments will come down and bush Co will try to weasel

out of it, attacking Fitzgerald ruthlessly. All the twisting and turning will not play well at all, especially in an election year.

I don't think you are going to see bush on the stage with many Repub candidates. Maybe in the south, but elsewhere he will not be wanted.

[ngGale]

80. I wish ....

I could see Bill Clinton handle this. FGS - how I miss having a real leader. A good leader with a heart could actually handle Cindy and the mothers, even when his policy is wrong. I've thought about this so much, what would I do. Let's face it, Laura could send a car to pick up Cindy - take her to the ranch. Identify like another mother should be able to do. Her dumb ass husband - * - could stay out of the room. A good kitchen chat - an I'm so sorry this had to happen.
We made a mistake, just don't tell everybody this - we will try as hard as we can to bring this war to an end. Something, personal without a photo-op. FGS!

The "First Lady" a mother, can't even relate to Cindy losing a child.
I have no respect for any of them, this is not the America I grew up in. What have we become...just since -*- has been in office. A mother is sitting in a f***ing ditch and they really don't care. Hope the rest of the world takes notice, they treat Cindy no better than the rest of their foreign policy. There is no way in hell had K/E won - Teresa H. Kerry and Elizabeth Edwards would have allowed this mother to sit in a muddy ditch, and grieve.:mad:

After all, they are two ladies - and Laura - you are NO lady, just tacky!

:rant:

[Kelvin Mace]

16. Sure he looked...

[ceusi]

27. She's got "numerous cousins"

"Cherie", whoever she may be, wrote that letter Drudge released. She claims to speak for "numerous cousins".


Are these cousins soldiers in uniform in Iraq? Are they at the recruiting office? Are they even real?

Or are they Yellow Elephants?

[helderheid]

17. "why will you talk to donors but not to me?"

Because he values the donation of money over the donation of your precious son.

HEARTBREAKING.

[dogday]

18. Could that car be going

any faster. Coward, he had a good chance right there to make a difference....

[jean]

22. I wonder how the crowd would have reacted if he stopped and got out

Do you think They might have politely applauded? Or would he have been met with stoic silence?

I guess this is another of my dreams ...

Because he'd NEVER have the guts to do something spontaneous, with 'Some' up close and personal. ('there are some who disagree with ma policies')

And he'll never meet with her - it would be a defeat for his puny manhood.

[dogday]

23. I would have applauded him for doing that

and I hate his guts. He had a great moment and blew it...

[tabasco]

24. That's exactly right.

We can now call him the "Drive-By President."



Saudi monarchy can visit the ranch, but a Gold Star Mother cannot !

[YOY]

26. I could pick so many good caps for that picture

"So George, I noticed the people are starting to dissent. Have you tried a massive surge of religion in schools and forsaking any charitable themes your religion may have."

"Done and done!"

[Historic NY]

37. Oh thats a good one...."the drive-by President".............

hell Nixon had the courage to go out and meet with hundreds of protestor's at the Lincoln Memorial on May 9, 1970 and he only had 2 or 3 SS & driver with him. Old Georgie Porgie is afraid of a grieving woman.

[FreedomAngel82]

39. Nixon at least had guts

He confronted a whole group and Bush is afraid of one woman. It's really sad.

[Spinzonner]

20. Not allowed to

Karl told him he'd turn into a pillar of Turd if he looked.

Who would know better ...

[Trevelyan]

25. Its True These Pictures of Cindy are Worth more than thousands of words to

show Bush's contempt for the sacrifice of our soldiers and their families.

When is Fitzgerald going to start handing down indictments and what is the procedure for arresting Bush/Cheney?

If Fitzgerald is coming above the radar in the PBS show on his career and his Grand Jury investigation, two years now, must be soon I hope for the sake of America and the world.

Does anyone have links for the two other Grand Juries who are looking into all of Bushco's crimes beginning with the 2000 stolen election, one is in Washington, DC, don't know where the other one is located.

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Skolnick Investigates Bush Indictments Of The Chicago Grand Jury Assembled In 2003 To Investigate The Valerie Plame-CIA Leak


Skolnick recently stuck his neck out again with a story saying perjury and obstruction of justice indictments have been vote out by the grand jury in a host of related wrongdoings by Bush and his cronies in a spill over of the Valerie Plame investigation, spearheaded by Chicago U.S. Federal Attorney and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

Skolnick claims a ‘true bill’ has been voted by the grand jury, indicting Bush and others as well as naming Justice Scalia and justice Rehnquist as un-indicted co-conspirators, adding the indictments have been suppressed from the public due to the sensitivity of issues involved, similar to way indictments against Richard Nixon were suppressed during Watergate.

Skolnick also reported last week that the situation has become so serious that his longtime friend Justice Stevens arrived in Chicago to try and work out a deal in the country’s best interests, considering the gravity and sensitivity of a sitting President being indicted.

“Stevens is in town to try and arbitrate a solution,” said Skolnick. "One or more of the grand juries have concluded their probe and have voted True Bills, Federal Criminal indictments, against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, "Scooter" Libby, Condoleeza Rice, and Theodore B. Olson; and several media people not previously mentioned in the monopoly press as implicated,"

More on Skolnick Reports

[jean]

29. bush doesn't have any skin in the game. Cindy says this again and again

or at least I've read she has said it.

SHE and all the families, have skin in this game.

But bush does not care about the American people he supposedly works for - he has no skin in the game. He's in it only for personal profit.

[ClintonTyree]

30. All that Skolnick stuff has been posted before........

and the consensus opinion is that he's not trustworthy and it's pretty much a bunch of horse hockey. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. :shrug:

[loverevolution]

31. Cindy is so smart

She has forced Bush into a lose lose proposition. Yesterday, I didn't think he could look like more of an idiot, answering Cindy in a press conference with his war criminal buddies behind him. But now, driving by her and the rest of the protesters...he has exposed himself to be such a fool and a coward. The press is all over this, the whole world is watching...there is no way out for him. And if he does meet with Cindy she will expose the truth about this sham of a war and put Bush in his place.

Just like cindy, I was so angry he was talking a vacation amidst the mess he has made, and now I am giddy at the thought that it is anything but restful. He is squirming!

[merh]

32. And 40 soldiers have died since he began his vacation.

:cry:

[awesomejobs2002]

38. But didn't Bush already meet with.....

www.smugface.com:) :P

[devilgrrl]

76. Oh no! That must mean she's a FLIP FLOPPER!!!!!

:wow:

:sarcasm:

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[Kerrytravelers]

40. And she has said, repeatedly, how disrespectful he was to her.

This story was backed up by another mothe'rs experience wth the shrub. The editor of the Vacaville Reporter has backed up this story as Cindy told him when she returned home from the "visit" where the shrub thought he was there for a party, called her "mom" called Casey a "loved one" but refused to say his name or look at his picture. The mother that went on o'reilly verified a smiliar experience has happened to her.

I am from Vacaville orginally and know the editor and the Rico family. They are not liars and not partisans. They put forth a very fair paper that fairly analyzes every issue.

[Oilwellian]

41. Oh, well let's just see what she said

"We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled," Cindy said. "The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached."

The 10 minutes of face time with the president could have given the family a chance to vent their frustrations or ask Bush some of the difficult questions they have been asking themselves, such as whether Casey's sacrifice would make the world a safer place.

But in the end, the family decided against such talk, deferring to how they believed Casey would have wanted them to act. In addition, Pat noted that Bush wasn't stumping for votes or trying to gain a political edge for the upcoming election.

Any questions?

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[Kerrytravelers]

43. It's funny, but it seems many people have chaged their view of the war

since chimpy is at 38% approval for the war.

Clearly, you're a shrub-loving anti-American because you are incapable of comprehending what is so very clear.

What is it like to be so ignorant?

Goodbye. What would you like on your tombstone?


P.S. Why are you here instead of Iraq? The link to an enlistment form is at the bottom of my sig line. Click it if you dare, chickenhawk.

[tabasco]

44. Intelligent people change their opinion when ...

presented with sufficient evidence to do so.

This is an especially difficult concept for people that need to have their opinions given to them by hate radio.



Saudi monarchy can visit the ranch but not a Gold Star Mother

[Kerrytravelers]

45. Attacking the grieving mother of a fallen American soldier.

What a wonderful human being you are.

Again, feel free to click the enlistment link at the bottom oof my sig line. Chickenhawk.

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[Vektor]

56. Nice try.

"You "quoted" her, putting emphasis where YOU wanted to and twisted her words to suit your very obviously NOT Democratic agenda.

Hi. How many times do you think we've dealt with this painfully obvious brand of "questioning"?

C'mon.

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[Vektor]

69. Your agenda is obvious.

But twist away!

[Kerrytravelers]

73. Oh, please.

If you want to understand, then watch your tone. YOu know good and well that your tone is very direct in what you are implying. Stop with the tomfoolery.

Now, as it is almost 11 pm here, and we have a long day planned for tomorrow, I am off to bed. That is why I will not be quickly responding to any more posts. Don't accuse me of a post and run.

My advice, if you are sincere (hold down the laughter, DUers), do the reading... including what Cindy has actually said herself, including her online diaries. Until then, don't get snipp here. DUers won't put up with that around here. NO ONE attacks a grieving mother of a fallen American soldier. A soldier, I might add, who questioned this war, but still went.

[Kerrytravelers]

58. Actually, you strike me as odd.

Her position has been made very clear. Time and again.

I suggest reading before you come on here and try to be cleverly subtle with your smear campaign.

How bush-like... stabbing you in the stomach with that "What, Me Worry?" grin. Your "leader" would be so proud.

[uppityperson]

62. She was given new evidence that Mr.bush lied about the reason for the war

And Mr.bush then used her son for political gain. Also, she met with him shortly after Casey got killed, now has had time to think and recover and has other questions. Like why has Mr.bush continued to lie about WMDs

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[uppityperson]

68. Have you heard about the Downing Street Memo?

http://www.meetwithcindy.org/ will give you a good place to start.

[Vektor]

75. Did you crawl out from under a rock?!

HELLOOOOOOO.

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

[norml]

72. Ever regretted having been nicer to some jerk than you should've been?

Especially if it's some high ranking jerk, and you were somewhat in shock at the time?

What's so hard to understand about that?

Your big "Ah Ha!" is so lame.

[Maddy McCall]

47. How about this 180-degree...

FUCK YOU. Go back to Free Republic.

[greenbriar]

48. can someone explain how far up bush's azz

your nose is?

[Catherine Vincent]

49. You're not trying hard enough.

[Vektor]

51. HAHAHAHAHA

Wow.

Um, your trunk is showing.

[emdee]

52. Read what Ms Sheehan says after she read the DSM....

DSM means Downing Street Memo - The Right won't mention it but it is a huge part of this puzzle.
emdee

[Not_Giving_Up]

53. I can explain it

She learned something. She found out about the lies, no WMD, the DSM, etc. After gaining new information, her opinion changed. That's what thinking people do. They make informed decisions based on the facts. The first time around, she didn't have all of the facts. Now she does.

[HughBeaumont]

55. Welcome to DU! Have a Marble-Row!

After the DSM, LOTS of people changed their minds and woke up to what we knew all along - that this simian killed kids for oil and profit$ based on LIES.

[Vektor]

59. They're Bush-bots...

Created in a Republican-funded pharmaceutical lab. Creepy stuff indeed.

[HughBeaumont]

60. But this one don't STAND for tomfoolery!

What is this, 1963?

:crazy:

[Vektor]

70. I often wonder...

...when I see these silly troll attacks, how old are these people? It seems like such a childish thing to do. And horribly naive to think we haven't seen every trick in the book, and won't spot it IMMEDIATELY.

[norml]

57. Maybe she regrets having been so nice.

After all, the local paper says they don't think there's been a change of heart, her outrage was festering then.

The Bushbots would make believe that she was somehow brainwashed and in being used by what they call "left wing groups" but maybe she is the one using these groups to get her message out and to take the protest where she would take it.

Bushbot propaganda is so lame!

[Kerrytravelers]

66. I grew up in Vacaville. We know the editors and family that run the paper.

As I've said on DU before, they are very conscious of being fair and non-partisan. They have no motive to lie. They ahve said repeatedly that Cindy is not suddenbly changing her mind, that she had doubts and questions and reservations before. In fact, not only Cindy, but her husband and the other kids, puls other members of the family (some of whom are there with her in Crawford now.)

Once again, one would have to take the time to read to understand all of this. The world isn't black and white... except in bushworld.

[devilgrrl]

65. One word - Enlist

git

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[Swamp Rat]

71. No excuses! Your country needs YOU!!!

If you already served, that's even more reason why you should be in Iraq right now. You can clean latrines and peel potatoes if nothing else.

[devilgrrl]

74. Oh those nagging peace time knee injuries!

[norml]

77. Plenty of private sector jobs in Iraq. You could work for Halliburton.

http://www.halliburton.com/

[KyndCulture]

46. hahahahah now THAT'S funny....

[janetle]

35. Just heard on NBC Nightly News

that the pres drove right by and didn't stop while on the way to a fundraiser. Wow! No spin on that and the facts make him sound like the callous unfeeling frat boy who laughs at people kind of jerk that he is.

[Not_Giving_Up]

63. Cindy was holding a sign that said

Why do you make time for donors but not for me?


GO CINDY GO!

[donato]

36. Do you think that he will have time on vacation...

To go to the funerals of the Marines who sacrificed their lives? 5 Marines returned home to Cincinnati today in flag draped coffins.

http://www.fox19.com/Global/story.asp?S=3711344

He doesn't have time to speak to a mother of a fallen soldier and will vacation instead of attending the funeral of a soldier who sacrificed their life for a mission he sent them on. I guess BBQ's and fundraisers are more important. You would think that would be enough to wake up his "value voters".

[ScamUSA.Com]

54. awesome pix

I was hoping to see that pic all day.

what a coward.

Bush is a straight up punk.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

78. Dubya is...

...either not getting, or choosing not follow, basic, politically prudent advice. You don't have to be a genius to know better than to whiz past Camp Casey with the motorcade. That was really just plain stupid. It smacks of leadership that regards itself as completely impervious to the tide of public sentiment. Even with MSM functioning primarily as the Republifascist's public relations arm, Dubya's polling numbers on Iraq, integrity, and overall job performance are in the crapper. He needs a domestic crisis and he needs it soon if he's going to draw attention away from this PR nightmare. I would look for some manufactered terrorism event before the end of September.

[Stephanie]

81. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Ptah]

79. If GWB understood the teachings of his favorite philosopher

he would stop this madness!

Cindy Sheehan, I hope you continue to show the
strength to speak truth to power.

:patriot:

[Callboy]

83. im starting to notice the GOP Lite contingent is starting to

try to move away from their votes and pre election convictions.
They all wish they had not voted that way and now they dont want anyone reminding them of their shameful decision. They cant get away with the fact that they are part and parcel with the sin and horror of this war. They are bystanders who looked the other way when they could have stopped the crime. And they are actually worse than those of you who have not voted. Shame on you.

[carnie_sf]

84. George W Bush

is a yellow-bellied, lily-livered, cowardly POS