Has everyone seen the Time magazine article - "A Mother and the President"

[funkybutt]

discuss

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1093760-1,00.html

[ultraist]

1. "within a few years, it turned into a movement."

There is a risk, though, that Sheehan's ideas will never stop spreading down the road. In 1965 a group of just 25 antiwar protesters demonstrated outside President Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch. Within a few years, the handful had turned into a movement. --

[cloud75]

2. let the movement begin....!!!

[Imagevision]

15. Yeah but well, almost everybody knows that TIME is owned by the CIA!

This is ancient history ya'll!!

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Thanks for posting -- kick.

[Mabus]

4. Kicked and recommended.

[petgoat]

6. Women Have Been So Important Lately:

Note Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones's challenge to the electoral votes of
Ohio and Barbara Boxer is the only Senator who will sponsor her
challenge; note Sibel Edmonds and Colleen Rowley standing up to their
FBI supervisors; note the Pentagon whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski; note
the Jersey Girls demanding the truth about 9/11; note Cynthia McKinney's
courageous stands for truth and justice re the Florida 2000 election and
9/11.

[niallmac]

9. Truly! The role women have played in this McCarthy like time

should be remembered. I don't know who would have been speaking for me at one point if not for Barbara Boxer. I am so proud of these brave patriots.

[Mabus]

14. don't forget

Lady Liberty and Justice with her scales.

FWIW, I listened to "This is Hell" at http://www.thisishell.net/ yesterday morning. Next week Sibel might be on. She, and the others you listed, are courageous women that inspire me as Shirley Chisholm inspired my mom.

From the website:
And on our program the following Saturday, August 20th, our guests will be:
--snip--
We are also currently in discussions concerning a possible return of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds who is profiled in the September issue of Vanity Fair.

[funkybutt]

5. it says her surviving son Andy asks that she come home

"Surviving son Andy, 21, supports his mother in principle but recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her "to come home because you need to support us at home," he says"

Does that mean that Andy said that to the reporter? I couldn't figure out where they claim to have gotten that information about an email from her son.

[girl gone mad]

7. I found this most shocking so far:

A senior aide who was present at many of the meetings estimates that a little less than 10% of the relatives tell Bush their loved ones died in vain. "He's had a couple wives who were very upset," says the aide. "They didn't yell at him or hit him or anything like that. But on more than one occasion, they've made very clear their position."

Unfuckingbelievable.

He must be a sociopath. A normal person would not be able to sleep at night.

[petgoat]

8. "A normal person would not be able to sleep at night."

Maybe he doesn't. Maybe that explains his inability to...uh...
complete a...uh...sentence.... You know, express himself in a way that
...uh...a normal...uh...person...might.

[Stil]

10. They are probably vetted

which would keep down the numbers. Plus the senior aide would probably "err" on the lower number side. Plus in shock and just wanting it to be over. To some may be just manners also. Wonder what the real numbers are?

[girl gone mad]

13. 10% telling Bush off..

is much higher than I would have expected, and I'm sure that is probably a low estimate considering the source.

[Mabus]

16. Many are too shocked by the death of their loved one

to say anything. I've read it time and time again from the soliders. It takes them time to readjust when they get back home.

I agree though. Bush isn't human.

[Miss Chybil]

11. Why is it always, "If he does X, will he have to do X for everybody?"

How about deal with the problem at hand. Worry about everybody else, later. Be a man, George Bush. Act like a REAL president.

[Imagevision]

12. Recommend and thank God for Cindy!!

we'll join her in Washington! Time to take it to the streets!!! and I could care less about owell's statement of; "we broke it-we own it"
fuckem!