[lit-ideas] Re: al Sheehan And The Spotlight
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:19:02 -0400
Judy: [Yost maintains] I don't think much of Cindy Sheehan
(so?)
Eric: The "so" is that Marlena asked me why I had the impression
Cindy was an oppressive mother. I tried to explain. Plus I just
posted a similar case of the mom of an astronaut.
Judy: she's anti-war (and always has been) but her son was not and
enlisted, *therefore* she must have been an "oppressive" mother.
Eric: I have yet to read anything that changes my impression of her.
My impression of her was not based on the above reasoning, but on
the fact that she would disregard the reality of her son's life.
In my view, making her son's death political showed how little she
cared about him, rather than showing, as some others feel, that it
showed how much she cared.
Suppose Casey had been a doctor, volunteered in Africa, and died of
Ebola and Cindy campaigned to end medical intervention in areas with
hemmorhagic fever outbreaks. That would be equally vile.
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