Cindy Sheehan holds sign as presidential motorcade passes...but not shown

[flpoljunkie]

Fri Aug 12,12:53 PM ET

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is surrounded by cameramen and reporters as she holds up a sign for President Bush as his motorcade passes on the way to a political fundraiser near his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 12, 2005. Sheehan, president of Gold Star Families for Peace, has accused President Bush of lying about the war in Iraq which claimed the life of her son, Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan. The U.S. death toll from the war is now over 1,800, and a new AP-Ipsos poll shows the lowest approval yet for Bush's handling of Iraq, just 38 percent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[AFSCME girl]

1. You go, Cindy!!

This woman is a true American heroine!!! :bounce:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. I don't know why. I hear the word heroine and think of Rush Limpballs. n/t

[emulatorloo]

2. What does the sign say? I can only make out "Donors" EOM

[comsymp]

5. Looks to my old eyes like

"Why do you make time for Donors but not for me?"

[txindy]

8. Yep, that's what I read, too

And she's absolutely right.

[emulatorloo]

10. Thanks, and she is RIGHT. . .bottom line for bush -- his Rich Friends

and how they benefit.

[flakey_foont]

3. wonder what the size of the crowd is there today

heard any thing on that?

[MintOreoCookie]

6. I believe about 100

I think that's what I heard on MSNBC about 5 minutes ago. I love how the momentum is growing.

I am stunned that he would not just come out and see her. Had he done that early on, I believe people would have seen him more positively. Now he just looks like an unconcerned presdient (which he is).

[flakey_foont]

7. thanks

saw somewhere that it was over 700 yesterday

[notadmblnd]

9. maybe he'd meet with her .....

if she held up a couple of hundred dollar bills along with that sign?

[emrenz]

11. An emotionally detached president

He probably won't meet with Cindy. That would mean humanizing the loss of life in Iraq. With this administration's brutal policies, the only way they can operate is to be emotionally detached. Hence, Casey has no name, he is just "the loved one". Our president does not really want to know of anyone's grief. The simple fact is, it is easier to send young men to die in an unjust war if you don't ask yourself the question: "what if it were my child over there?"

What a pathetic, misguided little man.

[flpoljunkie]

12. Welcome to DU, emrenz. Thanks for your thoughful, insightful post.

[faithnotgreed]

13. welcome emrenz

interesting touch in cindys sign
"donors" is in green
and "me" is in red

[flpoljunkie]

14. Dubya returns from $2million fundraiser after spending

These folks don't get much from Dubya for their minimum $25,000 donation to the
RNC--but this is the way he operates--drops in, goes through the motions, then goes home. But this time, he has to pass by Camp Casey.

 t r u t h o u t | One Mother's Stand

    By Scott Galindez

    Friday 12 August 2005
    1:30 PM

    At 1:25 the motorcade returned from the fundraiser and the crowd chanted "Meet with Cindy!"

http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml

AP article:

Some 230 people attended the fund-raiser at Stan and Kathy Hickey's Broken Spoke Ranch, a 478-acre spread next to Bush's ranch. All have contributed at least $25,000 to the RNC, and many are "rangers," an honorary campaign title bestowed on those who raised $200,000 or more for Bush, or "pioneers," those who have raised $100,000 or more.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081200180.html

[flpoljunkie]

15. Photo of Dubya's motorcade passing Camp Casey today...

Fri Aug 12, 4:01 PM ET

Cindy Sheehan, third from left holding cross, points at the vehicle carrying President Bush and first lady Laura Bush while standing with other parents of soldiers killed in Iraq as the motorcade passes their camp on the side of the road near Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 12, 2005. Sheehan is seeking a meeting with President Bush to discuss the death of her son Casey Sheehan. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

[emdee]

16. Way to go, Cindy! Are Bush's windows tinted?

When I think about him driving by her, those pics of him with his middle finger up comes to mind.
:banghead:
emdee

[flpoljunkie]

17. Looks like they are in back...read somewhere Cindy could not see inside