[lit-ideas] Re: al Sheehan And The Spotlight
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:07:20 -0400
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> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 10/2/2005 6:19:04 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: al Sheehan And The Spotlight
>
> 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.
>
How can you compare this to Iraq? You just like Bush, however much you
protest to the contrary. That's fine. Somebody's gotta do it.
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