SF Gate: Bush faces a no-win situation with Cindy Sheehan's presence

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

NEWS ANALYSIS / Vigil threatens to put president in tough spot
President Bush faces a no-win situation with Cindy Sheehan's presence. If he invites her to talk, he further elevates her protest, and if he ignores her, he risks appearing callous. Associated Press photo by Antonio Perez

Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief

Thursday, August 11, 2005

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/11/MNGVCE66FJ1.DTL

That a grieving woman seeks to speak to the president or that she opposes the war is hardly news as the war rages in its third year. But the image of an anguished 48-year-old mother standing outside the vacation home of the most powerful leader in the world, asking him to explain her son's death, is compelling and has caught the attention of millions of people from Canada to New Zealand.

For Bush, Sheehan's presence seems to create a no-win situation.

If he invites her to talk, he further elevates her protest, potentially angers the other families of the more than 1,850 Americans who have died in Iraq and provides Sheehan a greater forum to spread her anti-war views.

If he ignores her, he risks appearing so callous that he doesn't have the time, or the inclination, to spend a few minutes of his vacation with a mother who lost her son as a direct consequence of the president's foreign policy decisions.

[jean]

1. Oh My God. She looks so weary and weather beaten - SHAME SHAME

SHAME on bush! I cannot emphasize how despicably shameful and cowardly he is.

[dbt]

2. Good. It couldn't happen to a more deserving pile of excrement.

How many Americans has bu$hler willingly--and with gleeful disdain--place into no-win situations? Let him reap ALL the true rewards of his cowardly War For Profit!

SQUIRM, you son of a bitch.

[Kber]

3. Yeah well - this no win situation the President finds himself in

is one of his own making, so TFB for him.

And what about the, literal, no win situation he has in which he has put our troops in Iraq?

I like the fact that the SF Chron is highlighting this story, but it's not about the political fall out, it's about the WAR and the destruction it has brought on Mrs. Sheehan, her son, and the rest of her family.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. exactly

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Much like 9/11 chimp had an opportunity to do something about it before

it happened and didn't. I hope this brings the bastard down.

[nookiemonster]

5. Thank you Cindy. Your sacrifice will not be in vain.

:patriot: