Re: Google Cindy Sheehan (was: Re: Peace Mom)

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:26:12 GMT, Wendy Chatley Green
<invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>For some inexplicable reasons, Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>:On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:49:38 GMT, Wendy Chatley Green
>:<invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>:
>:>For some inexplicable reasons, Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>:>
>:>:Right, let's slime bereaved parents.
>:>:
>:>:Have you people no shame?
>:>
>:> Once upon a time, social rules determined how long a grieving
>:>person could be permitted to ignore societal conventions because
>:>"he/she/it is in mourning."
>:>
>:> We tossed most of those rules out as out-moded. So, how long
>:>now can a bereaved parent use grief as an excuse for actions and
>:>beliefs that were held before the grieving began?
>:
>:Is that what she's doing?
>
> IMO, yes. Had he son not died, would she have as large an
>audience? (answer: No) She is playing the cards dealt her to her
>advantage.

Well, she's a poster child, and I assume she knows it. But I don't see
any evidence that she's making excuses for anything or doing anything
for her advantage. Why do you assume that she isn't genuinely opposed
to the war, and that her personal grief hasn't been a factor in the
way she feels about it?

--
Josh

"You know I could run for governor but I'm basically
a media creation. I've never done anything. I've
worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But
that's not the kind of profile you have to have
to get elected to public office." - George W. Bush
.

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