[lit-ideas] Re: Cindy bites yer legs

  • From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:31:06 +0100

Eric,

The issue isn't Cindy but what she represents and the support she gets. Keep an eye out during the elections and see how well she does against Pelosi. It'll be a good measure of discontent.

Simon


----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 7:06 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Cindy bites yer legs


>>Cindy Sheehan

Again, she must have been a supremely lousy mother. She was a militant activist before the Iraq war. Her son enlisted, volunteered for a dangerous assignment, and died there. She capitalized on her son's death to become a celebrity activist. It's all protest junkets, photo-ops for her, and editorials for her.

>>After Casey was killed, I became deeply ashamed that
I had in some small part funded the very thing that killed him: greedy and rampant US imperialism. I ...

See the lie in her words? Like she suddenly had a political awakening AFTER her son died. Wow, what a cold demagogic lie! Anything to keep in the limelight, I suppose.

Casey was probably ashamed of her. Maybe that's why he enlisted.
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