"Good Riddance Attention Whore"
...is the title of Cindy Sheehan's retirement letter.
A few quotes and comments:
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party....However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used.
Though she never admits it, this is proof that in fact she was the tool of the Left. Nobody keeps around a tool that doesn't do the job or that is unsafe to use. And since the job was always to hurt the Republicans, and Sheehan started hurting the Democrats, they pulled the money plug. Later, she argues about the war issue not being partisan, yet she says:
I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?
So...Republicans bad, Democrats good, Bolivarian Revolutionaries even better?
Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.
That's sadly true.
Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.
You can't cuddle with Commies like Hugo Chavez or their ideological cousins back home, and be accepted by any self-respecting working individual. Since Cindy really was just a tool, she couldn't keep her message focused on the war. All of her supporting constituencies had to get their licks in, so it became about the Left as a whole, and Cindy in particular, instead of the war.
I feel a little sorry for her. I understand activist burnout, though I've never understood folks who throw the rest of their lives away like she did. What she doesn't admit in this letter, though she comes close, is that her whole run was ineffective. Since she did no "good", then she did the country no harm, and maybe we should all let her go in peace
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