Mother's Protest Puts Pressure on Democrats

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-protest17aug17,0,1746813.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Mother's Protest Puts Pressure on Democrats

WASHINGTON -- The high-profile vigil near President Bush's Texas ranch by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, could scramble the politics of the war as much for her allies as for the target of her protest.

The most immediate effect may be to increase the pressure on liberal activist groups and Democrats -- who have focused mostly this year on other issues -- to challenge Bush more persistently and forcefully on the war.

"It has gotten people back in the fight," said Eli Pariser, executive director of the political action committee associated with the liberal MoveOn.org. "What we're seeing is a lot of people ... recommitting themselves."

Anti-war activists, who have been largely inactive since the 2004 election, are organizing around Sheehan's protest: Wednesday, the MoveOn PAC and two other liberal groups will sponsor more than 1,000 candlelight vigils around the United States to support her.

[FtWayneBlue]

1. 1312 and counting...... n/t

[Zenlitened]

2. Wow, that is some desperate spin by the LA Times.

:crazy:

[opihimoimoi]

4. The rags will always try to spin their shit on us....

Chris Mathews hardBall...was doing the Cindy last night...he tried to make her cry and did...I am furious with the fuckhead....

[Cosmocat]

5. I saw that ...

It just was a HORRIBLE interview ... out of the gates, he comes up with some bizarre, "do you support going into Afganistan" question that came out of left field, then as you noted, kept going back, over and over, to how the differences within the family highlighted that she is being partisan ...

GOD that just burns my butt ... This whole partisan thing, these media people are either R/Con whores who are bullying with the partisan card, or flaming idiots who are keeping the concept going by legimizing it ...

At the end, he added a nice compliment about how she should run for senate, cause she knew more about the war than most senators, but he just beat her up left and right with the family stuff ...

Still, her honestly and compassion, and tight adherance to her basic points, showed throughout ...

[opihimoimoi]

7. In my mind Chris is a BULLY and should fried in flaming OIL

The PUB thing sure showed through...what an ass hole.

[madeline_con]

3. ".. largely inactive since the 2004 election ..."

Boy are they ever stupid. Who writes this crap and what cave have they been in?

[Imagevision]

6. Really! Cindy should ask Dem Senators to be more vocal on

Iraq war, Hillary, are you still out there??

[leetrisck]

8. Why Hillary? Or any other Democrat - Cindy is

more effective the way she is - if Dems get involved, the attention will be drawn away from her.