"It Takes a Village to Smear Cindy Sheehan"

[GreenPartyVoter]

The right wing attacks on Cindy Sheehan -- desperate, pathetic, and grasping at straws -- expose much less about their target than about the attackers.

I mean, trying to slime a grieving Gold Star mom because she is inconveniently questioning the reasons her son was sent off to die in Iraq? Why that would be like trashing a much-decorated war hero or outing an undercover CIA agent...

Oh, right…

How much longer can supporters of the Bush Administration get away with mauling the very values they profess to stand for before their supporters start getting wise to the fact that the only value they really value is power?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0813-22.htm

Here is my LTTE to Cindy's town paper:

I was heartbroken for Cindy when I came across two pieces in your paper about her that show no compassion for her situation in any way. (Nancy Smith 8/13 and Catherine Moy 8/12)

So to balance that I am writing from all the way over here in Maine to tell you all that I love Cindy Sheehan. I heard her speak at a Fair here in my area and when she read the poem her daughter wrote in memory of Casey I couldn't hold back my tears.

The local women who wrote about Cindy had a lot to say about her, none of it good. But have they met her? Spent time with her? Do they know the good she has done in the world as a youth minister or how the son she lost followed in her footsteps to also do good in the world?

How can they uphold her noble son and yet excoriate one of the people most responsible for molding him into who he was? They should thank her for raising up such a wonderful young man. Then they should grieve at his passing with her. Even if they do not agree with her questions about his death (and what loving mother would not ask "Why?!") is it really necessary to trash and degrade her in this way?

[ticapnews]

1. Bushco is gambling...

that by the time people realize what is going on it will be too late.

http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html

[TWiley]

2. You mean a Republican Villiage right?

Those people are horrid. Absolutely horrid.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Yes and they go on trashing Cindy in the comments section of

Arianna's blog

[TWiley]

4. Here, send them this link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4338915&mesg_id=4338915

I wonder if they will have the balls to print a story about how "True Americans" really behave.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. We gotta get the we don't care people on video tape. No one

will believe us without it.

And odds are they won't believe this touching story. Though I do. :)

[TWiley]

6. Absolutely !

And send the video to whomever will broadcast it. Most normal people can recognize an asshole when they see one.

[DanCa]

7. Obviosly Dubyas Godfaring Folk Never Heard of Love thy Neighbor.

Attacking a grieving mom these people are sick freaks.