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Charles Krauthammer reveals his Sheehan replacement:
Now that Cindy Sheehan turns out to be a disaster for the antiwar movement—most Americans are not about to follow a left-wing radical who insists that we are in Iraq for reasons of theft, oppression and empire—a new spokesman is needed. If I were in the opposition camp, I would want a deeply patriotic, highly intelligent, distinguished establishment figure. I would want ...
Who might it be??????? Read on ... if you dare! Meanwhile, Sweden’s Orgen-Borgen Smorgen asks:
Will the American War Mom Cindy Sheehan—who is repeatedly arrested for demonstrating outside the White House because she wants to know why her son had to die in Iraq—be equally famous for her civil disobedience as Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to yield her bus seat to a white man on a cold winter night in 1955?
Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: hell no.
The last photo of Mother Sheehan I saw, and which I’m afraid I cannot resurrect, showed her at night, outside the White House, in a rain hood, holding one of those paper-cup lanterns. I mean, I know it’s Halloween and all, but think of the children! All she needed was a boathook to be the bogeyman in I know what you did last summer…in Iraq.
No more pissants, s’il vous plait.
We need more of the White Mouse.Abu, I like it. Nutzies. However, I don’t like putting Rosa Parks in the same sentence with the Sheehan and Moore.
Parks wouldn’t allow herself to be exploited by the poverty pimps or other nutzies on the left. In fact, how she handled her fame reminded me of Neil Armstrong, who also steadfastedly refused to have his part in history exploited. Like Armstrong, Parks led a dignified, private life and died with her dignity and place in history intact.
I’m sure it wasn’t easy for her and in fact after she died I read a couple smears about her saying she was part of a movcment and the refusal to give up her seat was a setup, but she denied it as she denied being too tired to get up.
She said, and given how she lived the rest of her life, we have no reason to doubt it, that she’d had enough and wouoldn’t play into the Jim Crow laws anymore.
Requiescat in pace love lady.
Wow- I was way off. I thought it was Jane Fonda.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 10 31 at 08:51 AM • permalinkO/T 4crns continues with their nannying of hicks and also with the comparison between Oz and U.K. in demanding back their terrorists. Never though,do they address the idea that the U.K. probably would NOT now ask for their detainees back SINCE the bombings in LONDON.
Hicks is still the token white haired boy and his silly father (who has a right to defend his son) is still given untold free taxpayer funded prime air time.
IF the father had given him a dressing down for his activities BEFORE he got into trouble he might have justified his existence.
Gosh the Americans called Hicks an
Aussie Kangaroo while he was in custody!
How shocking.#13, carrying on your theme regarding Daddy Hicks:
Didn’t Sheehan jnr understand that by joining the military:
1) He might be called on to fight a war.
2) He may not necessarily agree with that war - but would still have to fight anyhow.
3) It was not compulsory for him to join - he was free to get a job elsewhere.If he didn’t understand these obvious facts, where was Mama Sheehan in explaining the facts of life to Junior before he signed up?
I imagine Sheehan Jnr might well have been braver than his mother gives him credit for - sadly, he isn’t here to say so. His mother’s rantings do his memory no justice.
Posted by Flying Giraffe on 2005 10 31 at 09:42 AM • permalinkIt’s been a long time since Sweden’s last significant contributions to world culture, Anita Ekberg and “serious” porn. They might want to reflect on the fact that their most enduring contemporary image in the West is a Muppet chef.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 31 at 10:14 AM • permalinkIf I were in the opposition camp, I would want a deeply patriotic, highly intelligent, distinguished establishment figure.
Dobermans are highly intelligent http://home.att.net/~rhhardin2/paper9.jpg .
Thanks Scat, Casey must have been a brave young man indeed and must be looking down from above and cringing at his mother’s antics.
I live near one of the largest military camps in Europe (near Catterick in Yorkshire), and know quite a few army guys socially. I am amazed at their bravery and willingness to do their duty.
The Ma Sheehan episode reminds me of that stupid scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Fatso tries to doorstop Congressmen to ask why so few of their children were in the armed forces.
I just wished one of the Congressmen had offered this straight response to MM: ‘did your parents tell you what job to take? If not, why should I have power over the career choices of my kids?’
That would have stopped him in his tracks. Maybe one of the Congressmen did give this answer, only for it to be edited out. I’d love to know if this were the case.
Posted by Flying Giraffe on 2005 10 31 at 10:32 AM • permalinkKrauthammer has it right, as usual. Replace the addled, marshmallowy rag doll with a stone-faced, cold-blooded monolith and you’ve finally revealed the true heart of the left.
Putting Rosa Parks in the same sentence with Cindy Sheehan is an insult to all people who respect freedom, but one can hardly expect a Swedish Euroweenie to know any better.
I hope Scowcroft’s head is still ringing from the monster pimp-slap that Krauthammer just gave him. Realist, hah! I think Rebecca’s “stone-faced, cold-blooded monolith” is far more accurate. He’s Kissenger without the humor or humanity.
Posted by Major John on 2005 10 31 at 02:28 PM • permalink19 Andjam
Something tells me Rosa Parks wouldn’t have had anything to do with David Duke.
And versey vicey. But while I do remember Mr Duke {*} saying nice things about Mother Cindy, I don’t remember seeing any reciprocation on her part. So she kind of didn’t have “anything to do with” his racist ass, as far as I can see. But I’m hoping to be wrong about that ...
{*} And that’s another thing! How come THIS asswipe gets to be named “David”?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2005 10 31 at 05:17 PM • permalinkI’m holding out for Cameron Diaz. A little long in the tooth, but she’d still look more interesting chained to a fence in the rain…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 31 at 08:37 PM • permalinkAs long as we’re fantasizing about bimbos chanied to fences, forget Cameron. Let’s go with Gwyneth Paltrow. Just as empty-headed and better looking.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 10 31 at 10:07 PM • permalinkScowcroft—an example of someone still fighting the last war (and vulnerable in the present one, as a result).
As for Mama Sheehan, she is the mirror image of the so-called “chickenhawk” ... a turtledove who protests only in the presence of TV cameras and caterers ... but never in the presence of those who started this war, who targeted innocent people in the name of a fanatic religion, or made themselves a Big Man in their culture and built golden palaces while they shredded people on a whim.
You really want peace, Cindy ... then take the advice in the last verse.
Posted by Rich Casebolt on 2005 11 01 at 02:12 AM • permalinkHmmmmmmm! “Bimbos Chained To Fences” sounds like an excellent blog theme…. I googled for ‘empty headed bimbo’, and got this. (Don’t worry—it’s work safe)
Not quite what I had in mind, but that’s a durn better sight than Mommy Cindy!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 11 01 at 02:30 AM • permalinkApropos of nothing at all… whenever I hear of Mother Sheehan, I’m reminded of another Leftist Saint.
Would anyone else like to patronise a new fast-food restaurant, the Rachel Corrie Pancake House?
Her death sparked intense controversy, with various advocates blaming it on the IDF, the ISM, Palestinian violence, and on Corrie herself.
... oh! And on Caterpillar. There was a small-but-deeply-stupid protest at the annual shareholders meeting. I found out about it too late to rent a grille and set up a FREE PANCAKES stand across the street, but in retrospect, that’s probably just as well. Any project that involves my cooking can’t possibly end well anyway.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2005 11 01 at 02:30 PM • permalinkAny project that involves my cooking can’t possibly end well anyway.
So?!?!?!?!? Feed ‘em to the lefties anyway!!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 11 02 at 06:26 AM • permalink
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