Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans.
The Berkeley, Calif., woman [uh], whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, was arrested along with three other women on the sidewalk outside the White House gate, said Lt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman. They were charged with
interfering with a government functionstalking David Letterman, he said.Before she was arrested, she joined the protesters in hailing [an entirely new form of protest] the outcome of Tuesday’s elections and chanting “Stop the War” outside the gate.
“It was taking too long [15 minutes] for them to decide whether to accept them or not, so we just delivered them,” said Sheehan, who waited about 15 minutes with other protesters before tossing the petitions over the fence [where they mingled with John Kerry’s medals, belonging to someone else].
The petitions opposed use of military force to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program [because they are amenable to negotiation and pose no threat to anyone but Zionists and other Jew-lovers].
Sheehan, 49 [same age as david, and just as mature], and other grieving families met with Bush about two months after her son died, before reports of faulty prewar intelligence surfaced [later contradicted by captured Iraqi documents] and caused her to speak out. [That’s an interesting rewrite of what she’s said on the issue]. She has tried repeatedly to speak with the president again, including a 26-day vigil last year outside Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas [where she bought property under false pretexts through a proxy].
Wednesday’s protest came as Republicans lost control of the House and the White House announced the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
”He’s being offered as a sacrificial lamb,” Sheehan said.
Even braised with rosemary and served with mint sauce . . .
IIRC,
Gates had no problem selling anti-tank missles to Hezbollah and Iran when it suited the Republican’s purposes.
I think the great sellout has begun…
– Hmmmm… maybe she’s making a come back… 50 is 3 times the number she was able to muster at her book signing screech-out, where she talked foundly of dreams of murdering Bush when he was a baby. We let people with her twisted mind walk among society folks. We do, and then we wonder why the hard left is nutz.
It’s funny, monky, given your concern about China, how you don’t ever seem to talk about Clinton’s Loral dealings. What do you know about that? Does that seem to be a “great sellout”?
Let’s hear more about sales of anti-tank missiles to Hezb, monky. That’s a bizarre and interesting theory.
I never voted for Clinton, Dan.
By “sellout” I mean, expect the bilateral talks to begin with Iran shortly…to discuss our complete military withdrawl from Asia.
Please let up on Cindy Sheehan. Find a better target of bile. Let her wander the landscape, barefoot and tear-stained, keening for her son.
I don’t buy what Cindy’s selling (demonization through death), but I do honor her loss. Using her a a figure of republican fun seems petty and tasteless.
Notice I avoided using the term “ilk,” which in my opinion has become, well, empty and dull. Kind of like Cindy, as the wits would say.
Once again, you don’t answer questions. You simply make unsupported criticisms. You don’t volunteer coherent arguments, you simply snark.
Good luck with the withdrawal from Asia part, monky. You wouldn’t think that that was a sellout, anyway, from what I gather. For all of his faults, Bush is a great deal more serious than you are, or than the Democrats have ever proved themselves to be with respect to Middle Eastern affairs. You may get your pullout in 2009, but not before then.
And although you represent it as a “sellout” now, it will undoubtedly be the height of patriotism then–to you.
With respect Cynn… not a chance.
As long as she interjects her personal suffering onto the world in a vain attempt into guilting people into agreeing with her warped view of the world… she can hug my left nad.
She disrespects her son by crassly using his sacrifice for her own ends.
She is a piece of human debris that deserves no respect or pity.
No, what’s petty and tasteless is what passes for “protest.” Do you think that I see her as a figure of fun? Do you think that I’m making fun of her? Not at all.
I’m making fun of the way the media has presented her, not as a woman with serious mental health issues, but as some kind of eagle-eyed purveyor of truth. As far as the Kerry thing goes, it’s simply galling that someone that mendacious could make a career out of calling into question the honesty and integrity of other people. It can’t be emphasized too often that this was the man that the Democrats chose as their presidential candidate last time around.
Sheehan is mentally ill. She should be arrested (for being a trespasser) and ignoredj as a public figure. Her son was a hero. She is a sad, pathetic, and twisted woman.
I am glad Rummy is gone. Symbolic or not, his presence was more of a distraction than help at this point. I think he made some boneheaded mistakes on the occupation. Never having any desire to get into nation building–he never had his heart into it. Defeating insurgencies is tough work and Don was not up to it. No doubt the State Department is not up to it either, but I think the DoD can pull it off if it had a leader who got it and tried.
And you have what certified copies of Cindy Sheehan’s medical records indicating mental health issues? Otherwise, that’s libel, and actionable, last I checked (because you typed it).
As for John Kerry, he’s damaged goods. Enough said. But it’s awfully easy to get dirty when you step in the mudhole.
But what (short of tactically nuking the Sunni Triangle, along with most of Tehran) is anyone going to able to do to blunt the insurgency, Joe?
I saw a piece on FoxNews.com from a soldier saying that there are no easy answers for Iraq. I agree wholeheartedly.
TW: list69
Dude… you typed “69”. Huh..huhuhuh…huh huh…
Good. Perhaps the fact that I typed it will cause her to sue me, and I’ll request that she get a mental health assessment, and she’ll get the help she needs.
Good, libel. I express my opinion, based on what I have seen of the woman’s behavior. And I guess she’s a private figure, in contrast to Bush, who apparently helped orchestrate the destruction of the Twin Towers with the help of the Zionist lobby, the Masons, the major oil companies, and the Pope.
Don’t be an ass, cynn. How would you characterize your own representation of unhinged Cindy, above?
Yes, indeed: Nation Builders ‘R Us! Got a fractious country held together by a brutal dictator? We’ll wipe the slate clean and plug in a shiny new democracy! Satisfaction guaranteed or you get a year’s supply of Play-Doh.
Oh, and Brittney Spears is a talentless moron, but she’s better off without Kevin Federline who’s a talentless moron, too.
So sue me.
Don’t be goin’ huffy, Dan. Be the model of restraint that I pray you can. I was simply trying to make the point: lay off the poor woman; she is hardly a useful symbol for you; bringing up her mental condition undermines using her as a symbolic weapon; and finally, you look like a sixth grader, throwing snowballs at the “slow” girl.
Maybe we can blame K-Fed for the election “tsunami” (ugh)
Don’t you think, cynn, that the problem may be in part, the way that the “slow” girl (libellous) has been treated by the national media? Who has made her into a symbol? Are you going to answer my critique of them, or am I just being a big, unfair meanie?
– cynn – I don’t want to presume to talk for anyone, especially my Irish, pot bellied, dancing fool friend Dan, but it’s like he said. It’s not “piling on Cindy. she’s so far gone I doubt she even realizes, or cares at this point, what people say about her. Its the fucking laim-brain press. they just can’t get enough of her. they, not we, are the ones making fun of the s-l-o grl.
– One thing that was already fun, in this Dem takeover, was watching the Bush presser this morning. the weasel-brained press corp was back on it’s heels, because Bush was way more upbeat than they had expected. they’re also sort of adrift right now, because once they play out the “change in direction” sidebars, they’re going to have to start feeding on dem blood, and I for one can’t wait. They’re already sucking fumes financially, so they won’t have the luxury of living off of puff pieces, at least not for very long. There’s too much compitition now a’days. They were obviously flumuxed, to the point they were almost respectful to Bush.
– I can’t wait for the Dems to start feeling the heat.
First of all, I didn’t use anyone’s name (except your pseudonym!) in my post—an important distinction in libel cases. I will give you that the media—who is the legitimate attention whore here—uses people like this all the time; why buy into their game and fall into the trap?
Dan,
Cindy is not the problem. We gain nothing by fightintg her. We now have the Wicked Witch of the East to make our boogeywoman, so let’s concentrate on those characters easy to assail. Cindy is crazy, but we gain nothing on pointing out the obvious in this case.
Sacrifices are being prepared all over Washington. Apparently they’re designed to appease Islamofascism. Cause they’re sure not designed to make the West happy:
Payback Time: Who the Democrats Will Target.
Jebus. Even the driveby media is shameless. Oops, did I just say that? Silly me.
give it a rest cynn.
Big Bang Hunter: I hope this democratic tsunami has finally unmoored Bush from his freakish handlers. I’ll give you the guy is goofy and inarticulate, but I’ll take independant though stuttering and honest any day. I would applaud GW Bush if he gives his neocon handlers the heaveho and actually speaks for himself. Couldn’t come fast enough. He needs to kick all their asses back into the gutter, and then I might pay attention.
Oh, I am being told to give it a rest. Interesting.
cause he couldn’t possibly beleive what he’s saying.
*sigh*
No, he believed it, he just didn’t know why. But I guess that’s the juice that makes the jam, to use an old Texas proverb.
– I don’t believe any of the talking heads on TV have a clue. The Dems are not going to do hardly any of things the pols are yammering about. The out front “face”s are not calling the shots. the core political people know:
– Yesterday was more an expression of voter frustration with Bush to some extent, but even more the entire congress, not a dem mandate “for” anything.
– You can’t win on a consistant basis if you’re basic party thrust is more than +/- 35% left or right of center. Say goodbye to the hard left.
– If anything that even smacks of a “total collapse” in Iraq occurs, it will now be layed squarely at the doorstep of the Dems. No more “we aren’t in charge” excuse escape hatches now.
– Screwing up on any one of those precipts will screw the Dems for ‘08. It isn’t going to happen, unless they’re even dumber than most think they are.
Dan, I know Jeff doesn’t ban anyone except in extremis (D.F.), but is there truly any point in keeping m-bot around?
Seriously, is there any point that needs demonstrating that…poorly?
Sure, BBh.
People are gonna blame the party that’s been put of power for 6 years for Iraq.
People voted in the Democrats to get us out of Iraq…now.
Get over it it.
So what’s your proposal, fellow traveler?
mb – There’s an old saying….when you’ve taken your best shot and come up short, the smart rabbit, or in this case monkey, runs to fight another day. Your hard left gaggle is toast. Lick your wounds, or whatever it is you lick, and save your breath. You, and the extremes on both sides of the devide, are irrelevant from this day forward until the ‘08 elections are history. Your party used you, but now they can’t afford your nutiness anymore.
– Maybe after that you can make a comeback, if you can find enough people that will buy into your Socialist crap. Generally it takes a few terms before the soil is fertile again for your brand of lunacy. At this point you’re just embarrassing yourself.
Say adios, load everybody up and head for the border…pretty dang simple.
Well, now that he and his interbred family is over the border, can we all get something done?
Sounds like a plan cynn….Hopefully it doesn’t turn out to be just a plan for a plan…..
Today at work I had that awful, uncomfortable conversation with a colleague about jihadists, Bin Laden and Sadr in particular.
She spoke about how we need to negotiate with them.
This, she said, even as I trembled while explaining that it’s not of much use to try and reason with someone who rejects reason, rejects the nation/state, the West and wishes to renew the Caliphate.
Blank stare.
“We need to try!” she says.
Oh my.
– Vlad, there are simply those among us that are incapable of grasping the horrific idea, that other animals that resemble human beings superficially, could actually want to see them dead. Fortunately for them, other courser men and woman, aware of the gutteral nature of the real world, will fight and die so that those unwilling individuals may go on living. It has happened many times before, and it will happen again. No respect for the sacrifice will be given, nor expected, no understanding even of what has been sacrificed, or taken place. It will be done without thanks, in many cases to the words of derision from those same protected souls. This, as Adams said, “is the very heart of Patriotism”.
Fortunately for them, other courser men and woman, aware of the gutteral nature of the real world, will fight and die so that those unwilling individuals may go on living.
Hehe, please.
Don’t go playing boy hero on my behalf.
How exactly do we spot these demons in the flesh, BBh?
Y’all got some special glasses?
“How exactly do we spot these demons in the flesh, BBh? Y’all got some special glasses?”
– *chuckle*…No monkeybutt….It’s really pretty easy. All anyone needs to do is read a few of your posts…Bon Appitite’
BBH, sometimes the special glasses come in handy. when it’s dark out. or so i’ve been told. ;D
As a flavor of the month whose 15 minutes were over more than a year ago? You’re still bitter about that?
Yeah, it wouldn’t do to have Dan bigfooting *your* turf.
Midol. It’s not just for those heavy flow days…
Monky: No one here would urinate on you if you were on fire.
Back to the subject and, thankfully, to some nuance:
Cindy Sheehan shares the same particular condition as Nick Berg’s dad; they care more for the sounds of their own voices than they do for the memory of their children. Both Casey and Nick would be horrified to see how their memory has been plundered for their parents’ public yammerings. It is sad beyond belief.
The Dem’s victory complicates their Presidential hopes in 2008. There is a yawning difference between being able to snipe from a relative distance and having to be part of the solution by getting your hands dirty.I’ve said before that Republicans earned this thrashing fair and square through drunken sailor spending, failures on border security and, most pointedly, churlish corruption and personal peccadillos (no, cranky, not that kind of ‘dillo!)for the last 14 years in Congress and for the last 2 Presidential races, Dem’s have been busy honing their message of “we are against that!”Now they are part of the process, thus open to thre same criticism. Even their sycophants in the MSM aren’t going to be nearly as fawning over the next 2 years.
Which is why lefties of “you know who’s” ilk are in for a rude awakening. They think that they have won a great victory but will soon have some
of the same awakenings of some black voters, that the party leadership will pat them on the head and send them back to the blogosphere with a thankyou and a lollypop.
As I said, It should be fun.
I would!
In fact, I advocate pre-emptive pissing upon monkeybutt, lest he burst into flames.
All I can say is: “Charlie Rangel”!
OOOH!!
I think I just soiled myself…
All I can say is: “Charlie Rangel”
OOOOOH!!!
I think I just soiled myself!
Also, as an OT kind of thing, what is this screen I just got that said “You aren’t allowed to post in less than ten seconds”? (or something similar). Is this like the one I got that told me I wasn’t authorized to e-mail you?
Jeff?
Hmmm…
A double post! And I didn’t even try…
Does anyone else have a mouse that you have to use your fingers to make it work?
That doesn’t sound right, does it?
“missile”
“withdrawal”
I’ve got nothing else for monkyboy. Anyone who imagines that the Democrats made it into office because the American people are collectively for packing the US military up and heading for the border is…well, the words that came first to mind were: Electric Monk.
So I hereby rename him Electric Monkyboy.
Lost Dog,
Your mouse bounced. It issued two, or possibly three, click commands instead of one when you pushed the button. Possibly you need a new one.
Regards,
Ric
“No, he believed it, he just didn’t know why.” So you’re a mind reader, cynn? Interesting. This type of elitism is hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.
“How exactly do we spot these demons in the flesh, BBh?” monkynuts, I was going to ask how can you be this stupid, but that seemed rather rhetorical. These “demons” kind of show themselves. I know you’re afraid, but even weak ingrates such as yourself shall be protected.
Slart—surely he’s more like Toerag, no?
No; Toerag at least is aware of things like Mjollnir hurtling toward him, and takes appropriate action. I don’t think monkyboy is nearly smart or quick enough to be confused with Toerag.
You’ll be able to spot them as they enter the basement you’re chained down in, carrying a rusty scimitar to hack you head off with, genius.
monkyfart – you have met the enemy, and they is you.
Say adios, load everybody up and head for the border…pretty dang simple.
You don’t own a dog, do you?
BTW Your heroes won. You can quit masterbating now.
I am sorry this had gotten so ugly between us.
I would, presently my urine has a very high alcohol content.
On second thought, it would be better to piss in a bottle, and throw it at him, singed pubes are hard to explain.
Is that the voice of experience, talking?