Wednesday, September 07, 2005
HASTERT MOTHERED
Mother Sheehan is on the move:
Cindy Sheehan, the California military mom whose 26-day vigil outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch helped make her the new face of an anti-war movement, has announced that she will join a group of protesters outside the offices of House Speaker Dennis Hastert here today ...
“She sees the importance of being at the office of the person who is speaker of the House and third in the line of succession to the presidency,” said group spokesman Michael McConnell.
By 2007 she’ll be camped outside Mel Martinez’s place. Sheehan’s high profile has impacted upon another celeb anti-Bush campaign, reports Roger Friedman:
Jane Fonda told me yesterday she’s scrapped plans for anti-war bus trip next March. As well, Fonda will be making only two appearances this month on another rally with controversial British politician George Galloway, not the eight that were widely misreported in the press yesterday.
Why the change of plans? Certainly, Fonda is still very much against the war in Iraq and in favor of helping our troops there. But she said that she didn’t want to distract people from Cindy Sheehan’s bus trip, already under way and gathering support.
And Michael Moore—remember him? wears glasses? a little on the chubby side? was going to win the election for Kerry?—reveals that MoShe’s followers have relocated to a more news-friendly environment:
Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush’s ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans.
It’s only one year on since the election, but Moore’s jabbering now comes off as incredibly dated:
There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can’t. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes, wars, and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.
Good luck with the slenderising, Mike.