September 28, 2005
Eloquence At Work
Cindy Sheehan met with John McCain today and, after the meeting, called him a warmonger. She said that McCain did not seem to believe the things he was telling her.
McCain may be many things, but he is not a dodger of controversy. You can bet that if he agreed with Sheehan, you would know it and the White House be damned. Furthermore, this man spent more than five years in a POW camp in Vietnam; I have a hard time seeing him as a warmonger.
This little comment of Sheehan's tells me that she has absolutely no respect for anyone in a position of leadership. Increasingly, she is being seen as more of a pest than someone with an agenda. She has blown her chance to ever be taken seriously
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It seems from the article that Ms. Sheehan is trapsing around Capital Hill trying to sway people' views on the war on terror. She seems to be wasting her time. People who are anti-war cannot be swayed and neither can citizens who believe we need to stop terrorism here and abroad. It seems she is waging a winless battle. After meeting with McCain and was unable to change his opinion, she seems to act like a child who didn't get its way and starts name calling. Grow up Cindy! Not everyone is swayed by your emotional plea to end our fight on terrorism. Most rational people tend to make fact based decisions, not emotional ones!
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at September 29, 2005 07:19 AM
I must give credit to Ms. Sheehan in one area: she has crafted her son’s sacrifice into a longer sustaining political capital than I originally imagined. However, I continue to be perplexed by Ms. Sheehan and this notion that America’s military personnel have been the prey of a grand ulterior evil agenda. Where was I when our military personnel collectively cried foul and requested to be rescued from their own decision to serve? Am I to believe that our military is composed of naïve men and women whose internal motivation for volunteering is only superficially under girded with a sense of national pride? Is this the true implication of her words? That her son who voluntarily joined the military was somehow duped by the “darkness” and thereby not accountable for his decision? Every time she bemoans his death publicly, it is implied HIS personal reasons of national service were a façade.
His decision to volunteer for military service was that of an adult. Ms. Sheehan brings dishonor to her son and to the many other altruistic men and women who serve for reasons that are antithetical to Ms. Sheehan’s own agenda.
Ultimately, I believe her political speech manifests from a perverse liberal belief that the exercise of peace is a methodology whose end goal is justice. I believe reality to be the opposite. It is the exercising of justice whose end result is true peace.