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8.26.2005 ||> He should really just go back to snorting coke
This blog is mostly apolitical. It's not that I'm not a political person, because I have a degree in Political Science. It's simply that I don't believe that arguing about it makes any difference. But as you know, every once in awhile, I stick a toe into the muddy waters. And today I felt compelled to do so again.
I had also avoided talk of Cindy Sheehan because I felt it was a complicated situation. On the one hand, I understood exactly why she was doing what she was doing. I think that if I was in her place, I might very well do the same thing. On the other hand, I had to question whether or not what she was doing was really going to make a difference. And indeed it doesn't seem like she's changed the playing field one iota.
Plus, Tony Pierce pretty much said everything I felt about the whole thing. So why rehash what he put so eloquently? But after surfing the Washington Post today, I just couldn't take it anymore. It was the sick feeling that I got from reading about how our president, rather than giving Mrs. Sheehan the time of day, instead actively recruited another mom to be her evil twin.
Even I, the Great Liberal Skeptic, did not expect him to go touting another woman around in Idaho as if she were a great cosmic counter-example. Let's not point out that she has 4 sons in Iraq and hasn't lost a single one (in fact, they even posed together for the liberal media while in Iraq). Or even that she let George Bush quote her as saying, "I know that if something happens to one of the boys, they would leave this world doing what they believe, what they think is right for our country. And I guess you couldn't ask for a better way of life than giving it for something that you believe in."
How presumptuous of her to say that when she has never lost a child. And how sickening that the president was looking around for someone to say something just like that. Well, at least it meant he was doing something during his 5 weeks of vacation.
When I read that story, I felt as if he was not only spitting on Mrs. Sheehan's grief, but on the sadness and despair felt by all the Americans out there who have lost loved ones to this war and are not certain that it was worth it.
I realize that Mrs. Sheehan put the President in a sticky situation, but fuck him for doing that.
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