Does ANYONE take Cindy Sheehan seriously?

Question

She has totally lost it and the liberals are taking advantage of the fact that she is crazy and has lost a child in the war. I feel sorry for her on both counts, but no one is forcing her to be in the limelight. She comes across as unstable.

SHE did not raise her child. The father did and he is not crazy. This is part guilt for not being in her child's life. Just my opinion.
I feel bad she lost a child - THAT is not in question here. I am a Dad.

Answer 1

To me, she's disgraced her son. She doesn't have to support the war and she can mourn any way she sees fit, but what she does is beyond that. She hasn't stopped long enough to think and realize that her son died doing what he believed in. He volunteered to join. He was a MARINE. That's hardcore. You don't do it just on a whim. He died in honor of that country and she's taken that away and dishonored him. There's no way to respect that. She's lost her family, what she had left. Even her husband walked away. She doesn't have a job. She's relying on other people to support her and her cause. There's no honor in that. I don't know if she's unstable, but she sure can't put much thought or reason into what she does. She's made her choices and she must deal with it. One day, she'll realize that she has nothing and that she's disgraced her son and she'll feel shame and remorse, but it'll be too late. No, I don't take her seriously. There's no way I can.

P.S. Many families bury their loved ones during a war. We know what the cost is. You don't see those families going off the deep end and hurting the memory of that person they lost. Once again, HE chose to join the MARINES. If he didn't believe in it, he would have never signed the dotted line.

Answer 2

I do take her seriously and here's why. Until she arrived on the scene in 2005, the President could say that he didn't care about what anyone else had to say about his war policies if they didn't agree with him and get away with it. When she organized that first rally in Crawford, Texas I said to myself, "Here at last is someone who will throw the consequences of the Iraq war in Bush's face, and for the first time he's not going to be able to duck and weave his way out of it, he's going to know what it's like to lose a loved one during a time of war, and he's going to know what the American people really and truly think of his policies." Three years after the invasion of Iraq, I wish that she or someone like her had come along at least before the 2004 election season. We should be applauding her efforts, even if we disagree with her methods.

I have said this many times on this message board, and I will say it again: the Bush administration hates dissenting opinions. And whenever I see and hear people trying to make Sheehan look like the bad guy, I think back to last year, when Phil Donahue went on the O'Reilly Factor and said:

"Once again we have a woman who got be just a little too famous for the people who support this war----a minority of the American population, by the way. And so the effort to marginalize this woman is underway, and you're helping out [referring to Bill O'Reilly in particular and the Fox News Channel in general]....First of all, Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother, and nothing you say or anyone else is going to slow her down....You can't hurt her. She's already taken the biggest punch in the nose that a woman can take. She's lost a son. She's lost a child."

O'Reilly interrupted, "But look, I'm not putting words in her mouth...."

"And by the way," Donahue continued, "she is going to be at the center of one of the largest rallies since the Vietnam War; proud, patriotic Americans who will show up in Washington this week for one of the most massive, largest demonstrations---protest demonstrations---right outside the President's window....And Fox is in the business of saying that this woman is somehow saying un-American things: hyperbole. Listen to what she said."

"No no no no," O'Reilly protested. "Nobody said she said anything un-American. We say that her positions are radical. And they *are* radical."

"Let me tell you what's radical," Donahue said. "What's radical is to send more Americans to die in this war, which is a monumental blunder by a President who swaggered us into it with, by the way, the at least tacit approval of the Democratic party. There's a lot of sin to to go around here."

The point is that when it comes to Cindy Sheehan's activism, the medium is not the message, and we shouldn't shoot the messenger. What's being conveyed is what's truly important. The source of ideas---Sheehan---- is not even half as important as the substance of the ideas being expressed---that the Iraq war is not worth fighting.

Answer 3

i replaced into basically on the verge of asking an analogous question a lifeless ringer for this one. Sheehan desires to move slowly back to the rock she got here from. Her exploitation of her son's demise is shameful. also, if she is the so referred to as "peace mom" how come her son joined the armed forces contained in the first position? no longer that it truly concerns the following, yet i'm very much shocked that she is largely 10 years older than myself. She appears like she is pushing 70. for sure the "reason" is growing older her quickly. i might want to imagine she will be in a position to be lifeless of previous age with the help of the time she might want to might want to face Pelosi in an election.

Answer 4

She got to meet with the President once to express her views - then demanded a second meeting - there are major political figures in the world who have not had a second meeting with the President and this wackjob thinks she's owed one?

Her son volunteered! Who doesn't know that getting killed is on the job description for any military position?

Now, she had a lawyer buy property for her in Crawford, TX - the previous owner was told that a family displaced by Katrina wanted it. The house will be a museum to her son - she's having a tree house built to live in!

The only remaining question is what size straight jacket she needs.

Answer 5

I don't - she's being taken advantage of by leftists all around the world, whether the Communist/Socialist front group CODE Pink, or her buddy Hugo Chavez

CODE Pink gave aid and comfort to the terrorists in Fallujah, while Hugo Chavez is friends with the genocidal Iranian president.

Answer 6

Of course she is not perfectly stable. She had to bury her child how do you think you would feel. The loss just pressed her to go out and protest and push for the end of a false war. She just is protesting harder than most which puts her in that lime light. I applaud her actions and her unwillingness to give in!

Answer 7

I take her seriously. In fact, I'm glad to see someone take a stand now and then. She has a right to her opinions and I don't think there's anything crazy about saying how you honestly feel. She's deliberate, and that's a good thing.

Answer 8

I think she is unstable. Would you not be if you lost a loved one? She's pissed off! She's trying to make a statement...a long one! Maybe when there is peace on earth..she'll become stable again...until then...she'll be the lime in the light.

Answer 9

I wonder how you would feel if your child died in a war based on a lie? Would you not do whatever you could to change things? Walk a mile in her shoes before you judge her.

Answer 10

In terms of how the war has impacted real Americans, she is an authority. I take her seriously.