Lexington. Selma. Crawford?
40 years ago, speechwriter Richard Goodwin wrote these inspiring words for President Lyndon B. Johnson, so he could introduce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Congress:
”At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was at Appomatox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.”
Could it be that history and fate have followed Cindy Sheehan to a small crossroads in Crawford?
Uh, no, it couldn’t.
Try not to be so fucking stupid, Steve.
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(h/t Allah; much more here)
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update: As Jeremy points out, “…since when does fate follow someone?”
Precisely. I mean, it’s fate, for Chrissakes. You’d think it would have known she was going to be there—and so gotten there early to get the grill going and tap the keg.
Damn! I read Post as Toast and clicked on it.
Ow, my eyes!
Somebody give that dude 40 lashes or something.
Ya know, just where WOULD we be without the Huffington Post reminding us just insanely cretinous some of these folks from the left have become?
It’s like a beacon of stupidity.
:Britan.France.Crawford?
65 years ago Winston Churchill gave this speech to the British House of Commons:
“…we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Could it be that World War and a British statesmen have followed Cindy Sheehan to a small crossroads in Crawford?
Or could it be that an overzealous left with Bush Derangement Syndrome and a penchant for severe over-dramatization has followed Cindy Sheehan to a small crossroads in Crawford?
You make the call.
Excellent. Really, really fucking excellent.
They’re actually partners in some kind of coalition thingy:
[url=”http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/613″ target=”_blank”]STEVE COBBLE is a co-founder of After Downing Street. A 30 year veteran of progressive politics, he has served as political director for the National Rainbow Coalition, speechwriter for Jesse Jackson, strategist for the Kucinich presidential campaign and Executive Director of the Arca Foundation. Cobble is a policy advisor to Progressive Democrats of America.
CINDY SHEEHAN is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, part of the ADS coalition, and a member of Military Families Speak Out. She is the mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, KIA April 4, 2004, Baghdad.[/url]
Yeah. That whole site is in full propaganda mode. They think they’ve found their Mississippi Burning moment.
But nobody’s buying it. If anything, this will just further polarize the country.
She’s on FIRE, man!
Which reminds me: did anybody snap up the domain “pissoncindy.org” yet?
The last eight posts over there are devoted to Cindy Sheehan. And that doesn’t include a post written by … Cindy Sheehan. Except for Rathergate, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group blog run a full-court press like this. Unbelievable.
ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
Put me down for further polarizing, with a heaping mound of terrorist-aiding rhetoric thrown in. FOR THE TROOPS!
See: if she just brings Bush down far enough to fuel further anti-American sentiments in the Middle East, causing increased danger and death to other US service men and women, why then she’ll have… uh… won, or something. At the very least her vocal dissent will bring her son back, I feel sure.
Not to mention, since when does fate follow someone? Is her destiny also behind her at that crossroads?
Heh. Good point. You’d think her fate would have known she was going to be there and gotten there early to set up the grill and tap the keg.
January 30, 2005 is a contender to that list for an “unending search for freedom.” ‘Cept it was hard work, diligence, and sacrifice then fate or history.
The name of the village where the surrender took place is is Appomattox Courthouse … Grant did not take Lee’s surrender in ‘the Courthouse located in the town of Appomattox’ … You go through Appomattox down a spell until you get to the village of Appomattox Courthouse.
Cobble also managed to misspell “Appomattox” as well.
Cindy, I got an explanation for ya. Your son joined the military becuase he’s a brave mother with balls the size of industrial grade steel aggies. He went to war in a country other than his own to give people the right to live in freedom. Terrorist cowards who fight wars under no discernible flag or uniform hit him with an RPG, and he was buried as a hero with his nation’s flag draped across his casket. He lived and died like a true American, with courage and determintation. You should be proudly honoring his memory right now, not letting some liberal elements drag it through the mud and spin it into some issue of national concern. Get a grip ma’am.
Are we still talking about Joan Crawford…?
Holy crap.
My first name is Steve, my last name is Crawford, and I live in Texas.
In addition, Minute Maid Park is at the corner of Crawford and Texas streets in downtown Houston … where the Astros are playing the Washington Nationals tonight.
It all fits. I am the center of the universe at this moment in time.
Did you guys catch the rest of Cindy’s family [a href=”http://www.drudgereport.com/flashcs.htm” target=”_blank”]begging her to stop exploiting her son’s death[/a]?
Dammit! Not again!
I blame the Hyper Text Transfer Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Did you guys catch the rest of Cindy’s family begging her to stop exploiting her son’s death?
I think it’s time to stop making obligatory nods to her “grief” and her “loss” and just call her out as an attention-seeking idiot.
Good for the family. And shame on Sheehan, and o those anti-war children who continue to treat her like she’s a carnival ride.
Man, I thought I was inured to the filthy tripe that spews fro the depths of the leftist fever swamp, but did you guys see that one e-mail to Michelle about Oriental Dolls? It’s pretty damned hard to shock lil’ ol’ me, but that did.
Those emails Malkin’s been getting are par for the course for the “tolerant” left. At least one of them got fired for sending her an obscene email from work, though. (Scroll down.)
Did someone say KEG!?!?!?
I’m there, if only to deprive those morons of their beer.
I’m beginning to think none of you click on the links I provide. And that stings.
The Malkin entry is linked in the original post, along with a hat tip to Allah.
NOTICE ME!
Eh. This happens pretty regularly, actually–every other day is bound to be ‘The day we the noble few are vindicated, and history engraves our names alongside those of Spartacus, Ghandi, Jesus, and Gore Vidal as martyrs who suffered unspeakable hardships but still spoke TRUTH to POWER, man!’:
‘Will history forever remember as the turning point, the famous photomontage of Bush’s face, created from the thousands of dead servicemen and women he so heartlessly. . .hello? Hello?
Aw, crap.’
‘Will history forever remember the day Dan Rather presented us with CONCLUSIVE PROOF that Bush was a lazy, draft dodging son of a. . .what?
Aw, crap.’
‘Will history forever remember the day John Kerry presented to the Congress the famous Downing Street Memo, the smoking gun which would prove conclusively and beyond doubt that. . .that. . .uh. . .
Aw, CRAP.’
‘Will history forever remember the day it was discovered that President Bush and a gang of pervert neocon CIA agents went on a pansexual rape spree through three counties of. . .of. . .’
‘Aw. . .CRAP.’
Hey. At least I noticed the keg comment.
Huh? I wasn’t paying attention.
When it comes right down to it, I don’t know that having Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos following me around would be considered a good thing.
That one there has a nasty-lookin’ pair of scissors, for one thing…
Hey, even Sheehan’s own family is telling her to shut up.
Check out Drudge.
<a href=”http://www.drudgereport.com/flashcs.htm” target=”_blank”>
Taking up with a bunch of “professional moonbats” who are gonna use you and throw you away later like a used tampon isn’t “fate”.
Where I come from, that’s known as being a dumbass.
Appomatox Courthouse?
Oh yeah, a war that started out with the US forcing its views of “morality” on another populace that only came up with the “war of liberatio” dodge after suffering horrible casulaties. A war that was run by a president the opposition called a stupid monkey to “free” a people who never had any experience in democracy and were living peacfully until the screwed up occupation created an insurgecy (KKK.)
Things were much better before, ask any rich white or read “Gone With The Wind.”
Afterdowningstreet was in on the basement impeachment nonsense that Conyers and Waters staged a while ago, btw. Everywhere, drumming up support. So far they’ve struck out pretty bad.
BRILLIANT! /TJ
Cobble was:
‘..strategist for the Kucinich presidential campaign’
quake in your , fascist warmongers!
uhm boots! quake in your boots!
(slinks shamefully away)