Making Baby Jesus Cry

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
No one wants to openly criticize a pained, grieving parent. I sure don't - and I don't have kids.

That being said - that is the reason why so many anti-Bush groups have rallied around and are propping up Sheehan. She is virtually untouchable in the political sense*

But this sideshow has now become the main act circus. Sheehan, with each new missive and each daily article in the Huffington Post, is sounding more and more like the "crackpot" "puppet" so many are now willing to publicly announce her to be.

Almost all of the posters here all well-read and savvy, so - unlike most of the public, who get their news from the MSM - everyone here probably knows that:

1) She met with Bush previously (unlike most grieving parents of dead or injured American soldier heroes) and publicly declared the meeting as a "gift"

2) Her son - ever the dupe apparently - had re-enlisted after his intial tour. A knowing decision by someone who had seen combat and knew the consequences

3) On the first day of her "protest" at Crawford, she was indeed given an audience to several high ranking Admin officials. This is hardly the "cold shoulder" the MSM claims, and probably more than she deserves given her motives.

4) As Sheehan continues to be supported by the fringe weirdos, her diatribes become worse. As of today, Bush (the "lying sonafabitch" she wants to meet, again) killed her son, not the insurgents. Worldwide terrorism will end when the Israelis leave Palestine. We are fighting a war for Israel. The sympathy she garnished initially among many - if not most - Americans, as a grieving mother, has been lost to the venom.

5) Her surviving children want her home. Her inlaws have publicly distanced themselves from her. And her husband has apparently filed for divorce.

I feel for this woman and I concur that the scarecrow photos are mean-spirited. But so is the utter manipulation by the anti-Bush forces of this "untouchable" victim.

In this 3 ring circus, she has become Emmett Kelly.



*recall my favorite pet topic - the grieving widow, Jean Carnahan.

Gore and company would love to give the keys to the shining city on the hill to the Islamofascists in a public ceremony of surrender. Based on the above, you would prefer to leave the key under the welcome mat and sneak out the back door. Sad. Pathetic. Sadly pathetic.