CINDY SHEEHAN IS A GLORY-HOUND
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
No one made Casey Sheehan sign up. No one. Not even his mother could force him to defend freedom. Casey signed up for the armed forces because he wanted to sign up for the armed forces.
Now Mamma Sheehan is showing herself to be a shameless exhibitionist who is stroked by a summer-slow media read. Reporters don’t have that much of substance to give out. So they play up this mouthpiece camped outside US President George W. Bush’s home.
Of course, all the anti-Bush drivers are parading their vehicles as a show of support for Sheehan. She’s glorying in the acclaim. Nevertheless, what Sheehan must surely know, being the age that she is, is that this too shall pass. And so shall the summer heat. And the gawkers giving her undo attention. And the reporters’ pads folded up inside their yuppie pouches.
This is ridiculous.
Sheehan is a brazen egocentric who delights in getting attention because of her son’s death. Yes, it is sad that her son died. So it is sad that the other defenders of freedom died. War is not a Sunday school picnic. People die. They sign up for the armed services knowing that this just might be the supreme sacrifice forthcoming. Those disillusioned by the ravages of war need not apply.
Once again the liberal rose-tinted eyeglasses of Sheehan shine off the liberal harangue taking place in Crawford, Texas. Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi must be in their delight as Sheehan becomes their clone representative.
As if Sheehan is the first parent to shed tears over a child’s death in wartime. Come on, Sheehan, do you really think that we realists are new to all this war kind of thing? Does your staging make it a first for speaking up regarding blood letting in order to cement the peace, establish a democracy, and protect our own shores by fighting the enemy elsewhere?
All this crooked straw-hat business on Sheehan’s dome really irks me. That’s just the liberal image we sane people have had to put up with for generations. Sheehan surely is the poster girl for the arch-liberal look if I ever saw one. And her monologue matches up perfectly. Empty heads. Cliches. Rants without reason. It’s an old package, Sheehan, so pack your bags and go home.
As for the armed services personnel presently stationed around the globe on behalf of liberties personal, Sheehan is their enemy. She is not their friend. These liberals go on and on about peace and loving country while all the while their rhetoric belies their motives.
They are in this speech making for themselves. It’s sheer show-off time in day care center mode. And all in the name of “peace” and “love” and “patriotism.”
It’s enough to make you want to throw a pitcher of cold water right over Sheehan’s hot head in Texas.
No one made Casey Sheehan sign up. No one. Not even his mother could force him to defend freedom. Casey signed up for the armed forces because he wanted to sign up for the armed forces.
Now Mamma Sheehan is showing herself to be a shameless exhibitionist who is stroked by a summer-slow media read. Reporters don’t have that much of substance to give out. So they play up this mouthpiece camped outside US President George W. Bush’s home.
Of course, all the anti-Bush drivers are parading their vehicles as a show of support for Sheehan. She’s glorying in the acclaim. Nevertheless, what Sheehan must surely know, being the age that she is, is that this too shall pass. And so shall the summer heat. And the gawkers giving her undo attention. And the reporters’ pads folded up inside their yuppie pouches.
This is ridiculous.
Sheehan is a brazen egocentric who delights in getting attention because of her son’s death. Yes, it is sad that her son died. So it is sad that the other defenders of freedom died. War is not a Sunday school picnic. People die. They sign up for the armed services knowing that this just might be the supreme sacrifice forthcoming. Those disillusioned by the ravages of war need not apply.
Once again the liberal rose-tinted eyeglasses of Sheehan shine off the liberal harangue taking place in Crawford, Texas. Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi must be in their delight as Sheehan becomes their clone representative.
As if Sheehan is the first parent to shed tears over a child’s death in wartime. Come on, Sheehan, do you really think that we realists are new to all this war kind of thing? Does your staging make it a first for speaking up regarding blood letting in order to cement the peace, establish a democracy, and protect our own shores by fighting the enemy elsewhere?
All this crooked straw-hat business on Sheehan’s dome really irks me. That’s just the liberal image we sane people have had to put up with for generations. Sheehan surely is the poster girl for the arch-liberal look if I ever saw one. And her monologue matches up perfectly. Empty heads. Cliches. Rants without reason. It’s an old package, Sheehan, so pack your bags and go home.
As for the armed services personnel presently stationed around the globe on behalf of liberties personal, Sheehan is their enemy. She is not their friend. These liberals go on and on about peace and loving country while all the while their rhetoric belies their motives.
They are in this speech making for themselves. It’s sheer show-off time in day care center mode. And all in the name of “peace” and “love” and “patriotism.”
It’s enough to make you want to throw a pitcher of cold water right over Sheehan’s hot head in Texas.
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