This woman has got to go. She has dedicated her life to denigrating the memory of her dead, hero son and now she believes that she’s qualified to run the country! So I ask you, if a young man or woman joins the Metropolitan Police Department in DC and is subsequently killed in the line of duty, would Cindy support pulling the police off of the streets of the city? Same thing in my book.

Birdman - 23 July 2007 05:04 PM

This woman has got to go. She has dedicated her life to denigrating the memory of her dead, hero son and now she believes that she’s qualified to run the country! So I ask you, if a young man or woman joins the Metropolitan Police Department in DC and is subsequently killed in the line of duty, would Cindy support pulling the police off of the streets of the city? Same thing in my book.

Sheehan wouldn’t be the first to ride the death of a family member into a Congressional seat. Carolyn McCarthy of New York ran for Congress in 1996 after her husband was killed and her son wounded by Colin Ferguson on a subway train in 1993. Of course, McCarthy, a Democrat, was running against a first term Republican, so she received the backing of the Democratic National Committee. Sheehan will have no backing from either party, which damn near guarantees her failure. This is her swan song. Once defeated—if she even makes the ticket—she’ll fade away into anonymity.

As a person Sheehan is really a very distraught woman- typical grieving mother who wants to blame someone for her son’s death.
Nobody will have sympathy for her unless society can understand how grief/mourning can totally consume a person.

I really don’t agree with how this mother has conducted herself in a very very public way- she has been totally off what society considers normal and is destroying herself and the family around her. BUT I can have extreme empathy for her as a person who struggles to make sense of a intense death. Nobody expects to bury their own child, and unless anyone on this duck pond has gone their own journey this way- will fully understand.
Society thinks anyone who has a death can begin to function again after three days.
That is not always the case and it is totally an individual journey that everyone will travel. How we do it and with what kind of support, family- spiritual etc all comes into play—- but I can promise you one thing.
When it is intense and deep- it will come out in way or another= people will either explode- like Sheehan or implode like the guy who buried his grief for 20 + years and then turned his rage on a bunch of innocent school children in a one room schoool house in Lancaster, PA….

Sadly she thinks she is right in what she is doing and is driven to blame others-  that blame won’t bring her boy back and dishonors others and most likely her own son but you are right she won’t make any political blimps on the national screen but she is really in need of good mental health help to protect society & herself from any “postal” incidents.

You give her too much credit, Giz. I think she is way beyond grief. She is using her son as a tool to further her liberal agenda. Shame on her. He died with honor and she lives in disgrace. He chose to serve his nation and she chooses to run it into the ground. Sorry, no excuses this time. This miserable wench needs to join all the other Hollywood liberals and just leave. Let her take advantage of those open borders liberals love so much and move elsewhere. I’m not usually one to go quoting movies but I really liked the line from Nicholson’s character in “A Few Good Men”, “...I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.”

Birdman - 26 July 2007 11:07 AM

I’m not usually one to go quoting movies but I really liked the line from Nicholson’s character in “A Few Good Men”, “...I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.”

Hey !  love the line & understand the comments - knew it wasn’t a popular statement but compassion I do have for her and believe me I say-  it is all acting out from her grief-  but doesn’t matter- she is going about it the wrong way- she is disgracing her son, her family and everyone who has sacrificed for this country… sadly the social outcry is not enough to shut her up but the media loves a story and she provides what they want to push.

Amen to that.  Dirty laundry sells!

No question.  Good analogy.  Bad things happen and it’s a shame but seeking out a scapegoat for a knee-jerk reaction is just unproductive.