Comments on: Weekly Jackass Number Thirty-Nine: Cindy Sheehan

By: M. Dias

M. Dias — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:12:39 +0000

Obviously this is a very heated issue among all of us who are politically aware and mothers with Sons. I have two sons, neither of whom I would like to see enlist in the armed forces. At any rate, each of us has our own will and whether we preach to our children as “trubador of peace” or as a war-mongering supporter, each of our children have free will. Perhaps a battering of peace talks provoked this young man into anger and the battle itself. Precious life sacrificed for a useless cause, this young man had free will and excercized it to his very end.

By: M. Dias

M. Dias — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:11:38 +0000

By: Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » Cindy Sheehan: The 2005 Jackass of the Year

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:10:29 +0000

[...] This year’s pick is more problematic. As I stated when I awarded her the 39th Weekly Jackass prize: I take no pleasure at all in awarding this one, because there’s nothing funny about a grieving mother. Ask yourself this, though: if Cindy Sheehan had not lost her son, would you even hesitate to condemn her actions? Indeed, it is more as a symbol than a person that Sheehan is our yearly honoree. [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:37:09 +0000

I didn’t know about the Lynne Stewart thing until after I put up the post; that is, to say the least, troubling…

By: Don Miguel

Don Miguel — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:13:20 +0000

Mark, when I learned of her introduction for Lynne Stewart (a convicted terrorist accomplice) and what she said at that time I became convinced that she had gone beyond just being used by the far left. And I also think this is now about her (me, me, me!) and not her son. One of the best descriptions I have heard about her, and I think it is not being mean, is that she is “unsophisticated.”

By: Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » A Study in Kossacks - Er, Contrasts

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:53:45 +0000

[...] Cindy Sheehan, of course, famously said that her son died for Israel and not America. Karl Rove, you may recall is the architect of Bush’s political campaigns, but this is the first I’ve heard of his leading role in the Iraq War strategy. Anyway, wasn’t that the Je- excuse me, the neocons? [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:27:01 +0000

Don Miguel, perhaps, and I’m being extremely charitable here, she is filling the hole in her life where her son used to be with the attention showered upon her by the lefties who are exploiting her mercilessly…if so, she will be sorely disappointed when she realizes that she’s just this year’s progressive fashion accessory, to be discarded when she no longer draws the media in in big numbers…

By: Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » Our Weekly Jackass Gets The Lileks Treatment

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:23:55 +0000

[...] James Lileks takes our Weekly Jackass Cindy Sheehan to the woodshed, for a reason that will be familiar to regular readers: If she blames the war on, say, Zionist fiends, ought not one wonder why the anti-war crowd seems deaf or indifferent to the loathsome underpinnings of her remarks? Perhaps they agree with her when she says this is a war for Israel. David Duke certainly does. Best of all is Lilek’s conclusion: The hard left in America needs to realize a bald, cruel fact: Anyone who sees no moral distinction between Israel and the mullahs of Iran, or sees the U.S. attempt to set up a constitutional republic in Iraq as equivalent to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, suffers from incurable moral cretinism. The more the fervent anti-war base embraces these ideas, the more they ensure that no one will trust the left with national security. Ever. [...]

By: Don Miguel

Don Miguel — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:59:30 +0000

retire05: Excellent points! I must clarify something on your answer to #1:

Yes, ASVABs are aptitude tests and there is no pass/fail, but there is a minimum score depending on the service. Everyone enlisting has to take the ASVAB and enlisting at age 18 or above there is no parental notification (in his case, 21). Anyone enlisting with a high ASVAB score has a pick of jobs, most of them being non-combat.

The more I hear what she says, the more I think she is just a pathological liar.

By: Don Miguel

Don Miguel — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:47:26 +0000

“No recruiters talked to him about his re – enlistment”

Dmac: Recruiters have nothing to do with re-enlistment — that is handled by a Re-enlistment Officer. Other than that, good point.