"A Shot in the Arm for Protesters:"

[GreenPartyVoter]

CRAWFORD, TEXAS -- Asking whether she was "The New Face of Protest?" the liberal political magazine the Nation ran a photo in March of a middle-aged woman holding a picture of her 24-year-old son.

The answer from anti-war organizations as international media have spread the story of Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey died last year in Iraq, is a resounding Yes. The anti-war movement has eagerly grabbed the coattails of the 48-year-old Vacaville mom tented up in a drainage ditch along the one-lane road that leads to President Bush's vacation ranch.

United for Peace and Justice, the nation's largest umbrella organization of anti-war groups, is organizing supportive vigils across the country. Donors large and small have poured thousands of dollars into Sheehan's organization, Gold Star Families for Peace, and other groups that oppose the war.

Fenton Communications, a national public relations consulting firm in San Francisco that often works for liberal groups, arrived Wednesday to help coordinate Sheehan's media relations. And a TV ad aired in nearby Waco, Texas, on Saturday that featured Sheehan saying, "Mr. President, I want to tell you face to face how much this hurts. How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0814-02.htm

[Just Me]

1. That ad is so touching,...

,...caused me to tear up when I heard it. Who couldn't be touched by this down-to-earth American Mother? I hate to imagine what kind of person has a black hole in lieu of basic human empathy.