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(MSNBC)   From the "Don't Let the Door Hit Your Ass on the Way Out" Department: Cindy Sheehan announces she'd rather live under Hugo Chavez than George Bush   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line
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2006-07-06 9:27:28 AM  
Yeah, Bush said last time she was under him, she seemed kinda dead.
 
2006-07-06 9:28:55 AM  
I recall a few here on Fark that said the same thing. How's the packing coming, kids?
 
2006-07-06 9:31:35 AM  
It's good to see the liberal media focusing on what's important in America.
 
2006-07-06 9:31:50 AM  
Please go. Please
 
2006-07-06 9:32:36 AM  
Action Replay Nick:

It's good to see the liberal media focusing on what's important in America.

They love her.
 
2006-07-06 9:33:20 AM  
Submitter, you seem a tad confused. Bush is not America.
 
2006-07-06 9:35:11 AM  
She had a point, and she's made that point over, and over, and over, and over...

She's lost a son, and that's awful... but Dear Lord woman... time to move on.
 
2006-07-06 9:36:04 AM  
Bildo
They love her.

Yes, it's completely evident in this video, where the interviewer is just nodding along in agreement with everything Sheehan says.
 
2006-07-06 9:36:06 AM  
I'll buy her plane ticket. One way.
 
2006-07-06 9:36:29 AM  
I gotta admit -- I saw the interview, and it finally convinced me she's a farking nut.
 
2006-07-06 9:37:20 AM  
on orbitz, we can send her from lax to caracas for $855 on Mexicana airlines. any pledges? i'll throw in $10
 
2006-07-06 9:37:58 AM  
kronicfeld: Bush is not America.


Moreso than Chavez.
 
2006-07-06 9:38:32 AM  
Put me down for $10.
 
2006-07-06 9:41:09 AM  
Why move? She only has to wait a few months until our current jackass-in-chief is out of office...to be replaced by the next jackass-in-chief of course, but at least it'll be a clean slate for her.
 
2006-07-06 9:41:53 AM  
Moreso than Chavez.

No, it's a not a matter of degrees. Bush is not America. Chavez is not America. The amount of "America" each of them is equals zero.
 
2006-07-06 9:42:36 AM  
She's off her nut.
 
2006-07-06 9:43:42 AM  
Action Replay Nick:

Yes, it's completely evident in this video, where the interviewer is just nodding along in agreement with everything Sheehan says.

Hell, Democrats loved her when she first camped out at Bush's ranch. Now she's become an embarrassment. The media is still giving her that microphone though.
 
2006-07-06 9:45:11 AM  
"O'Donnell: Would you rather live under Hugo Chavez than President George Bush?

Sheehan: Uh, yes.

O: Yes?

S: You know, Hugo Chavez is not a dictator like you introduced him. He's been democratically elected eight time, and ---


I like her, she speaks for today's democrat. She isn't wishy washy like most, she comes right out and says what your rank and file democrat is feeling. I'm happy the DNC has such a great speaker to get their message out.
 
2006-07-06 9:49:12 AM  
The media is still giving her that microphone though.

Because the media knows the public will watch an ongoing public spectacle. Why do you think crap like The Runaway Bride makes the news? For the rest of her life, anytime she does something remotely "newsworthy," be it an arrest, marriage, divorce, etc, she's going to get another fifteen minutes of spotlight.
 
2006-07-06 9:49:36 AM  
Who?
 
2006-07-06 9:51:53 AM  
mild7: What evidence do you have that the DNC marshalled her into their service? Zip. Stop parroting Ann Coulter. Besides, considering how many Dems voted for the Iraq war, and continue to support it, I find the idea of Sheehan as an "appointed" spokesperson to be cognitively dissonant.
 
2006-07-06 9:55:38 AM  
Diogenes: What evidence do you have that the DNC marshalled her into their service?


Not shying away from her are they now?
 
2006-07-06 9:58:19 AM  
It's amazing how insecure some folks are about their own country that one woman's opinion (a crazy woman, at that) has them attributing those opinions to about 50% of their countrymen...
 
2006-07-06 10:02:28 AM  
keylock71
Nah, just their political party reps.
 
2006-07-06 10:03:51 AM  
If Sheehan represents the Left as some here want to say, then surely people like Fred Phelps, Tim McVeigh and Jerry Falwell speak for the Right.

/one persons opinion does not a majority opinion make.
 
2006-07-06 10:04:40 AM  
Dancin_In_Anson: No more than the GOP shied away from Coulter.

Look, I already conceeded Sheehan's a loon. But is it so hard to believe that these protestors, loudmouths, attention whores - whatever you want to call them - are independent "agents"? People whose names are out there and are therefore convenient references?

Unless of course you're talking about real hired guns like Armstrong Williams, Jeff Gannon and the like.
 
2006-07-06 10:05:54 AM  
then surely people like Fred Phelps, the Gore supporter

Heheheh.

Phelps was also a civil rights attorney at one time.
 
2006-07-06 10:07:18 AM  
Boojum2k

I would direct you to Mild7 statement:

She isn't wishy washy like most, she comes right out and says what your rank and file democrat is feeling.

Anyways using your logic, we can say that Fred Phelps or Ann Coulter (two folks who get about as much press as old crazy Cindy) is representative of what the Republican party reps feel?

/not a democrat.
 
2006-07-06 10:09:16 AM  
I wonder where Cindy Sheehan gets the money that she needs to fly all over the country protesting, let alone eating and her entourage?
 
2006-07-06 10:09:49 AM  
keylock71: It's amazing how insecure some folks are about their own country that one woman's opinion (a crazy woman, at that) has them attributing those opinions to about 50% of their countrymen...


It's amazing how many dems can go from hailing the Gold Star Mom as a national hero, grieving mom, and a voice of reason, to a "crazy woman" in just a few months.

I guess the dems are done using her, and would rather just have her go away. I would like to see more of her, and would love to see her campaign for every democratic congressman this summer.
 
2006-07-06 10:10:36 AM  
Diogenes: No more than the GOP shied away from Coulter.


Actually I think many in the GOP embrace Coulter and aren't afraid to admit it.
 
2006-07-06 10:12:53 AM  
keylock71

Ok, news flash bunky, I am not mild7. So if you want to argue his logic, argue with him. I pointed out two things, one that radical views aren't so much a matter of the base as the pols, and two that Phelps in particular isn't identifiable as being on anyone's side.

If you have a problem with mild7 linking Democrats unconnected to you (since you ain't one), speak to him.
 
2006-07-06 10:16:25 AM  
Bildo:
They love her.

Funny, but it's not the "liberal media" that keeps her name out there.
 
2006-07-06 10:21:00 AM  
Boojum2k: Phelps in particular isn't identifiable as being on anyone's side

Phelps was in Colorado Springs last year protesting at Focus on the Family. Seems he thinks James Dobson is too sympathetic to gays.

I don't think Phelps is on ANYONE'S side. He's just plain nuts.
 
2006-07-06 10:21:11 AM  
albo
on orbitz, we can send her from lax to caracas for $855 on Mexicana airlines. any pledges? i'll throw in $10

Not good enough. I want a clause in the agreement that bars her from ever appearing on any form of mass media distributed in the United States again. Get that, and I'll chip in $20.
 
2006-07-06 10:22:29 AM  
I don't think Phelps is on ANYONE'S side. He's just plain nuts.

He's either completely nuts or a genius at generating publicity. Or both.
 
2006-07-06 10:23:43 AM  
I don't think Phelps is on ANYONE'S side. He's just plain nuts.

Cindy Sheehan is nowhere near that nutty (but still nuts), but I think she's the same. Not on anyone's side, just out taking wild swings in all directions.
 
2006-07-06 10:24:11 AM  
It's amazing how many dems can go from hailing the Gold Star Mom as a national hero, grieving mom, and a voice of reason, to a "crazy woman" in just a few months.

Are you wearing your magic Rowdy Roddy Piper sunglasses that let you see into people's brains and identify their party affiliation? (Because, after all, we all know everyone is either a Democrat or a Republican, and there is no middle ground.)
 
2006-07-06 10:25:12 AM  
mild7

Yep, and all you need to do is show where I "hailed her" or "championed her" or that I'm a democrat to not be talking out of you ass... I won't hold my breath.

Boojum2k

You responded that these opinions are attributed to the party reps not the rank and file democrat, whereas I showed you that someone in this very thread was attributing Sheehan's opinions to the rank and file.

You know what...this is the second time you've gotten snarky with me for no reason what so ever. If you can't express yourself in a polite and adult manner than I won't waste my time resonding to you anymore. Like I said last time, grow up.
 
2006-07-06 10:25:18 AM  
mild7: It's amazing how many dems can go from hailing the Gold Star Mom as a national hero, grieving mom, and a voice of reason, to a "crazy woman" in just a few months.

I guess the dems are done using her, and would rather just have her go away. I would like to see more of her, and would love to see her campaign for every democratic congressman this summer.


You just go on and continue beating that drum. You're just contributing to the atmosphere of misinformation, subterfuge, and cognitive dissonance which isn't helping anyone in this country.
 
2006-07-06 10:36:34 AM  
Well, you know...she has been supported by some of the more main stream Democrats...


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2006-07-06 10:40:13 AM  
Diogenes: You just go on and continue beating that drum. You're just contributing to the atmosphere of misinformation, subterfuge, and cognitive dissonance which isn't helping anyone in this country.

That's some solid advice for Cindy. Why did you quote me first?

I guess you're done supporting her too? Poor Cindy. Democratic hero one minute, outcast the next. I remember feeling sorry for Cindy during the zenith of her democratic celebrity, knowing full well the dems would eventually leave her in the ditch in which they found her.

It's ok Cindy, I still support you, get out there and spread the word. Everyone knows which party you represent, even if they don't have any use for you anymore.

The DNC smear machine claims another friendly fire frag.
 
2006-07-06 10:40:14 AM  
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2006-07-06 10:43:12 AM  
mild7: You're useless. Unless people are interested in partisan hack, snarky comments that have no basis in reality. I'm done with you.
 
2006-07-06 10:47:06 AM  
"In my meeting with Howard Dean, he told me that the Iraq issue was "hard," and the new Democratic "Contract with America" is going to have 10 points, and the first one is going to be "Universal Health Care." I told Mr. Dean that if the Dems didn't come out strongly against the war and against George's disastrous policies, we were going to become irrelevant as a party (which is already happening) and the "hard" issue should be the one that is worked on the hardest! I'll admit that the issue doesn't seem so hard to me..." -Cindy Sheehan (notice the use of the word 'we')


"...I am just hoping against hope that the war is on the Dems' contract somewhere. " -Cindy

Keep hope alive Cindy, there was no mention of the war in the dems' "New Direction". Hey what do you know, I agree with Cindy Sheehan. The dems not mentioning the war in their "contract" is silly. huh.
 
2006-07-06 10:51:42 AM  
keylock71
You know what...this is the second time you've gotten snarky with me for no reason what so ever.

First off, a boojum is a carnivorous snark to begin with, so what did you expect? Second off, you were attributing mild7's logic to me and arguing with me over it. I was responding from my point of view, not his.

Got that?

/you don't like getting linked to those whose opinions you don't hold, don't do the same to me
//that would be the adult thing, yes?
 
2006-07-06 10:54:36 AM  
Diogenes: mild7: You're useless. Unless people are interested in partisan hack, snarky comments that have no basis in reality. I'm done with you.

Are you talking to Cindy again? I'm not sure what you may think, but I'm not mother Sheehan.

Poor Cindy.
 
2006-07-06 11:02:23 AM  
crazy coont.
 
2006-07-06 11:02:42 AM  
mild7

Are you talking to Cindy again? I'm not sure what you may think, but I'm not mother Sheehan.



You and Cindy have more in common than you appear to realise.
 
2006-07-06 11:04:04 AM  
You and Cindy have more in common than you appear to realise.

Ouch. That'll leave a mark.

/counterbattery fire on target, sir
 
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