Cindy and her personal life should not be used as smear tactics.

[ray of light]

From Cindy at Kos--I say we should write the media and ask them to leave her family alone!

Mon Aug 15th, 2005 at 01:44:40 PDT
I apparently am the sacrificial lamb of the peace movement. I don't care about myself. Putting myself in the forefront and daring to challenge the president on his lies left myself open to the attacks. Which are, of course, half truths and distortions.

CindySheehan's diary :: ::
When they start sliming my home life and my family, that's where I draw the line. Yes, my husband has filed for divorce and yes he filed before I left for the VFP Convention and this trip to Crawford and yes IT IS BETWEEN MY HUSBAND AND I.

Having Casey murdered in Iraq by George Bush's reckless policies has been hard enough on my family, but me setting off on my holy war to bring the troops home, my constant absences, and all of the media attention has put additional stresses on my family.

I chose my path after Casey died. The rest of the family has chosen theirs. We all still love each other and support each other in anything that we do. We didn't want Casey to join the Army, but once he made that decision, we supported him and even encouraged him through boot camp.

We are a normal American family who have had good times, bad times, and terrible times. We hope the good times will come back. We hope that we will be able to laugh with abandon together like we used to one day. We hope that the troops come home and no other families have to go through what we are going through.

It isn't about politics for us. No one asked Casey what political affiliation he was before they sent him off to die in Iraq and no one asked us who we voted for in 2000 before we were handed a folded flag from Casey's flag-draped coffin.

I am not perfect and I never even claimed to be perfect. My family isn't perfect, but we are pretty special...especially the children. We all miss Casey so much and it is George Bush and his neocon cabal who is at fault. The people who are dragging my family through the mud need to grow up and look at themselves. The Christ said: "He who is without sin, cast the first stone."

If everyone followed Jesus's advice, the world would be a much better place.

(edited for grammer)

[merh]

1. God Love her - She is a good woman -

:patriot:


Nominated & bookmarked!
Thanks for posting.

[Greeby]

2. Michelle Malkin has something to say about that

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. That pic so captures her true essence

[bryant69]

3. I hate to say this

But fat chance. We'd be better served helping her to whether the storm and redirecting such attacks back to the core issue rather than pretending we can persuade the media not to attack.

Even if they refrained (which isn't likely) they will be pushed to do so by the COnservative Media.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[ray of light]

4. That's fine...

Just send them a letter stating, "I'm GLAD that Cindy is holding Bush and the media accountable for the blood on their hands."

AND ask the media to "Wake up and smell the coffee!"

How many must die for a lie?

[bryant69]

7. That's exactly the response I think we need

Support for Cindy and redirect to the main issue. Rather than berating them or focusing on the specifics of the attacks, instead redirect to the core issue and issue support.

[ray of light]

9. are you a fencer?

Because that is exactly what they'd call it--parry and repost.

[bryant69]

11. I actually did take a semester of fencing

but i wasn't very good at it. Kept trying to riposte and then parry.

[ray of light]

12. AH...

SO YOU GOT PRETTY BRUISED!

[peacetalksforall]

5. They are on their way to making this a Sciavo roller coaster. Cindy is

the new Michael Sciavo. Any minute, Jeb will enter the picture to rescue his brother while the right wing support battalions join in the sliming of activist mothers. Yes, they have armies of slanderers to use against the rag tag activists.

[ray of light]

6. She's a mom and a lioness who has seen her cub killed

She represents our greatest fear on earth--that something will happen to her beloved child.

And she can truthfully state that marraiges and lifes fall apart when evil happens to your child. (And I can state that from personal experience too!)

[fasttense]

10. Ray of light

I'm sorry to hear about the evil in your child's life. I hope your family supported you. I would be doing exactly what Cindy is doing if my son died in that war. I'm not sure if my marriage would hold up either under the stress that family has faced. Divorce almost always happens after a death of a child.