Cindy coming up on Situation Room...CNN

[Not_Giving_Up]

When they come back from commercial (or so they implied)

[deutsey]

1. Keep us cube rats updated, please!

[DemonFighterLives]

2. I'm on it again now too.

I was about to start a new thread until I saw this.
It would have been called the Inflation Room :puffpiece:
If a tree falls on the Golf Course and no one is there, does it cause this much noise/ruckus? That Goofy Cafferty should be fired. He was so rude about Castro's Birthday even mentioning an exploding Cigar, Har, Har. Whether Cuba is better off without him or not is their business. One emailer mentioned something about us being better off without a facist like Caff.

[converted_democrat]

3. Thanks for the heads up!!!! n/t

[shelley806]

4. Maytag and Whirlpool merger!!! What about G.E. war hogs? Nada about

Cindy. Did I miss it?

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. No, you haven't missed it

She hasn't been on yet.

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. They're going to have Cindy on

As well as "another mother who lost her son and supports President Bush". Oh goodie!

[DemonFighterLives]

7. Still teasing about it

Wolfie says the Cindy's stand is gaining momentum!
:woohoo: That is good for him right there.
Now playing the new firefighter tapes from 9/11.

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[DemonFighterLives]

9. Back to the Golf story. cafferty blah, blah

Tiger hit his ball into the drink and it pissed him off and he must have Carrie'd the tree.
Wolfy-Will Cindy follow dubby to the white house, he will ask Commercial

[Pirate Smile]

10. They have teased this for hours now. Well, at least they know

this is what people want to watch and we will hang around to see it - of course, it is muted while I listen to AAR.:)

[DemonFighterLives]

11. Fugitive story now

Fighting extradition

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Funeral today of the dead guard

:dem:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. the situation room -snicker-

leslie blitzer playing like he's a big time newsman

[DemonFighterLives]

16. No lie, he is on top of the world in his mind

He is going to have a pro war mom who will surely refute everything that Cindy says, yeah right.
Cindy to ask dubby; why did her son have to die?

[Not_Giving_Up]

14. Current tease - War mothers on both sides

We know Cindy can handle herself, but what about the other side?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. He's going to have a "war mother" on who supposedly is on the

opposite side of the fence than Cindy.

[DemonFighterLives]

17. Georgette Frank first before Cindy

Her son championed the underdog and stepped in to helped picked on.
Her son and her are staunch supporters of knuck knuck.
Freedom is not free.

[DemonFighterLives]

20. Heart of the marine foundation

wolfy did your son die for a noble cause.

Absolutely, bringing freedom to the Iraqi's. She broke down crying now.

[DanCa]

31. Is it just me or did the interview seem forced on her

Like she didn't want to do it.

[Not_Giving_Up]

34. To me, she seemed rattled

Kept fudging words and having to correct herself. She didn't seem too happy to be there, but there could be any number of reasons why.

[DemonFighterLives]

36. She looked a little strained

She seemed like she was going to breakdown when they cut to wolf and she stabilized. But eventually she broke. It has to be hard whatever you believe to lose your child. It's a damn shame.

[DanCa]

38. I just dont trust cnn

They shave numbers and down right lie. Unless am giving Georgette way too much credit. I can't believe anyone who looses a kid would trust the Crawford Coward.

[DemonFighterLives]

39. Obviously she is still believing the conservative media

Dubby is a hero to that 37% and can do no wrong. Also, some are still of the belief that you can kill off anyone that is an enemy to the country. They don't get the idea that we have propagated many of them and are creatin more every day.

[DanCa]

40. Red and Blue Grieving moms ?

I bet you this is how the chimp and the media are going to try and crawl thier way out of it. Every day in every way Bush ticks me off more and more.

[Not_Giving_Up]

41. Sad, isn't it?

The death of a child is not political, it's tragic. One brave woman speaks out, so they have to find one to counter what she says. After all, Cindy is getting lots of attention.

To me, that makes the other mom look bad, not Cindy. Her child DIED and she still doesn't get it. Then again, maybe she does, but she doesn't dare to speak up.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. I cannot understand how someone could be that blind.......

[DemonFighterLives]

37. It is the old America can do no wrong message

Anybody messing with us deserves the wrath of God.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

42. Vietnam War mantra..my country right or wrong.. It was misguided

then as it is misguided now. I wonder how many of the people that believe in that are in abusive and/or enabling relationships????

[Not_Giving_Up]

43. I don't understand why

People don't understand that you can support the troops and not the Pretzeldent. Cindy supports the troops, she wants them to come home alive because she knows they are dying for LIES. Yet, the freeps are calling their rally to be held Saturday a "Pro-Troops Rally". So, wouldn't that really make them anti-troops, if they think these men and women should continue to die needlessly?

[mtnsnake]

18. It's terrible that they've dug up some Bush-supporting grieving mom

to preface and diminish Cindy's appearance.

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[DanCa]

30. It's scary though that she nailed the right wing talking points

I still feel bad for her though no parent should ever have to bury a child.

[Not_Giving_Up]

19. Here we go

The other mom is up first. "You support the President in contrast to Cindy Sheehan and other mothers. Tell us why."

Her son was a staunch * supporter...we're losing these kids, but freedom costs. We wouldn't have the country that we have today if it wasn't for sacrifices"

She says that she understands Cindy's pain, but she has chosen not to let it dominate her life, her family has found another way to deal with it.

We believe in what they are doing....Says she believes that her son died for a noble cause...bringing freedom to that part of the world...freeing people from Saddam.

The day that the Iraqis voted, she and her husband held each other.

[DemonFighterLives]

22. Cindy talking about wmd and terrorists

that were not there.
Bush passed them twice and he never gets to see several hundred who disagree with him.

[DemonFighterLives]

24. Perpetual vigil until the troops come home.

Wolfy now reading her old letter, about dubby being a man of faith etc.
Bringing up the Downing Street Memo. Cindy says she has studied and informed herself and has become more focused to bring the people home alive. Attacking a country that was not a threat to America.
Thanks Cindy.
Checking the bloggs. 400,000 hits compared to wolfie gets 200,000,

[Not_Giving_Up]

23. A different perspective...Cindy

The President declined your request to meet with him for a second time. What goes through your mind when you see the motorcade?

Cindy expressing condolences to the other mom. Says that the best way to get over her pain is to save other lives. When we first went to Iraq it wasn't about liberation. "I don't want any more children to die"....When Bush came by today twice, what he saw was a couple hundred people who have opposing view points to him, and he rarely sees that. We usually have to stay in free speech zones, miles away.

Roll tape on yesterday - he thought long and hard, but disagrees

That's not what I'm asking him. I'm asking him what is the noble cause my son died for, and stop using my son's name. I didn't ask him to pull out the troops.


Are you going to DC - Yes...I won't be there 24 hours, but we will rotate.

Bringing up first meeting...I know he knew that he lied to the American public when he talked about WMDs, the DSM proved that. I have studied and informed myself and I have seen the reports come out that prove that he was wrong. The more I see, the more I become focused. Hundreds of other innocent people should still be alive.




CINDY - :yourock:

[DemonFighterLives]

25. Good Job Not_ Giving_ Up

:thumbsup:

[Not_Giving_Up]

28. Thank you

I'm not working right now, so I can do this. I know when I was trapped at a desk I was dying for updates on things like "Will Boxer stand?" Others here at DU kept me updated, I'm just doing the same.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Cindy has so much compassion

[cbear70]

26. excellent job

Loved Cindy and loved the footage that clearly showed how many people were there...

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Will this be online??

[Not_Giving_Up]

32. Check CNN's site

I don't know if they're putting it up or not. I don't have the ability to transfer video to the web, and I didn't tape it, but I wish I had. I have a tape that I throw in for Cindy coverage, but it's almost full.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. Maybe someone will put it up.. Crooksandliars??

[Synnical]

44. Transcript from early part of the show

The portion where Cindy was on isn't up yet.

But, check this out from the first hour:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/12/sitroom.02.html

BLITZER: <snip> Let's talk about Cindy Sheehan. Her strategy is what now? It's pretty clear the president is not going to meet with her again. He met with her a year ago.

DONNA BRAZILE, FRM. GORE CAMPAIGN MANAGER: She's going to remain outside I think, until the president himself visits her or perhaps invites her over to the ranch for iced tea or something else to drink. But what's happening right now is that more people are coming to the ranch site. The protest is still growing in number and strength. And as you saw in a poll just recently, 61 percent of the American people now disapprove of the president's handling of Iraq.

So I think Cindy Sheehan is making a difference in terms of those who oppose this war.

BLITZER: Another almost half a dozen mothers who have lost sons in Iraq are joining her outside the Crawford Ranch.

RICH GALEN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: That's a long way from any kind of mass demonstration. I mean it's -- the president's is going to be there until he comes back to Washington at the end of August. And then nobody will cover her.

The other alternative for this ending is for her to stop getting covered, then she'll go home. But look...

BLITZER: It's a tough decision for the president.

GALEN: For any president, whether it's Bill Clinton or Dwight Eisenhower or George W. Bush, any president has to balance -- or any commander for that matter, always has to balance the interests of one soldier or one mother of a soldier, in this case, against the interests of the entire mission, the entire campaign, or for a president, the entire country.

It is a very difficult thing to deal with. But the notion of people sticking out the motorcade to see if it was going to stop for a protest is kind of silly. If a presidential motorcade stopped for every protest they went by, they much work wouldn't have been done.

BLITZER: It probably would have been easier for the president to change his mind and invite her in for a glass of a cup of tea or a cup of coffee or a glass of iced tea or something had she not aligned herself now with some of these political groups MoveOn.org and others. Now it -- all of a sudden, it becomes much more of a political brouhaha as opposed to a sympathetic mother who is grieving, who lost a son in Iraq.

BRAZILE: I think that's the way some on the right are now portraying her, as a capture of MoveOn. But she's not. This is a woman who feels very strongly about what happened to her son in Iraq. She has strong views about what should take place now that the troops should come home. And I think that she's going to stay out there and continue to raise public awareness and attention to what's going on in Iraq.


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So, that's the GOP plan? Ignore her for the month of August and hope she goes away? Or will they be pressuring the media to stop covering her protest every day?

[DemonFighterLives]

45. Thanks for bringing that

Donna Brazille really gave old wolfy the smackdown for his repeating the rightwing meme about Move On. I don't know what they see so bad about them?

Dubbya will never bow down to a peasants wishes, how dare she?