Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Cindy Sheehan Sees the Light


It took her awhile, but the recent Iraq funding cave-in by the Democrats showed Cindy that they cannot be counted on to stand up to Bush when the going gets tough. It is pathetic that they are our best hope, but that sure ain't saying much! I feel sorry for her, but it was entirely predictable. The Democrats just don't have a collective spine!

FORT WORTH, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her monthlong protest outside President Bush's ranch, said Tuesday she's done being the public face of the movement.

"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

"I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said.

In what she described as a "resignation letter," Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: "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.