Cindy Sheehan has blown it
(WARNING: The story linked to here contains foul language).
Cindy Sheehan has blown it.
Of all the mothers of all the servicemen killed in the Iraq War, one- Cindy Sheehan- has chosen to disgrace her son's memory by becoming a crusader against the very cause for which he gave his life.
A Gold Star Mother rates automatic sympathy. But Mrs. Sheehan- perhaps predictably- has squandered any sympathy she had coming. Her position- that having met, and personally reconciled with, a President she once blamed and now blames again for her son's death, she is entitled to a second chance to personally berate him- is simply absurd, and her rhetoric has escalated until all that remains is sheer, transparent, foaming-at-the mouth, irrational, and (in this case) foul-mouthed hatred.
Hate drove the last Democratic Presidential campaign, and it proved to be a loser. Fortunately for the nation, the Far Left has not yet learned the lesson of the 2004 election: that over-the-top, irrational rhetoric, fueled by transparent, virulant and mindless hatred, is a turn-off to most people, and in the long run deprives even the most initially sympathetic of fanatics of any further claim to the sympathy of any reasonable person.
Cindy Sheehan has blown it.
Of all the mothers of all the servicemen killed in the Iraq War, one- Cindy Sheehan- has chosen to disgrace her son's memory by becoming a crusader against the very cause for which he gave his life.
A Gold Star Mother rates automatic sympathy. But Mrs. Sheehan- perhaps predictably- has squandered any sympathy she had coming. Her position- that having met, and personally reconciled with, a President she once blamed and now blames again for her son's death, she is entitled to a second chance to personally berate him- is simply absurd, and her rhetoric has escalated until all that remains is sheer, transparent, foaming-at-the mouth, irrational, and (in this case) foul-mouthed hatred.
Hate drove the last Democratic Presidential campaign, and it proved to be a loser. Fortunately for the nation, the Far Left has not yet learned the lesson of the 2004 election: that over-the-top, irrational rhetoric, fueled by transparent, virulant and mindless hatred, is a turn-off to most people, and in the long run deprives even the most initially sympathetic of fanatics of any further claim to the sympathy of any reasonable person.
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