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The tragedy of Cindy Sheehan

A friend sent me this heartbreaking link to Cindy Sheehan, the woman who's crusade against the war in Iraq (and more specifically against the Bush administration) has made her a hero in some eyes. The leftist activists (I don't know what else to call them -- that is all they really seem to have in common within their group) rallied around this woman's story -- a son dead in Iraq and her projected rage onto an administration that she shadowboxed for the death of her son. And she was everywhere, this tragic figure. Chaining herself to the White House gate, protesting outside the President's ranch in Texas. She was pissed you see.

And then, as is always the case with the showmanship of American activism (sad but true) she lost her following once she began to really side with those who would martyr her. Once she became as rabid as they, she couldn't get heard. the pupil becomes the teacher and that job has already been filled.

So here she sits waiting for her disciples to come and have her sign a copy of the book in which she writes her story with all it's rage and misguided blame. I wonder if they ever came.

posted by Lola @ 10:40 AM