Karl Rove must be slipping. If only Buttie had met with the woman like she asked, none of this would have happened.Cindy Sheehan vaulted into national consciousness this month on the power of her story as the grieving mother of a fallen soldier.
But what began as a solitary campaign to force a meeting with President Bush by setting up camp along the road to his ranch has quickly taken on the full trappings of a political campaign. Sheehan is working with a political consultant and a team of public relations professionals, and now she is featured in a television ad.[...]
Sheehan has courted coverage from the traveling White House press corps with a news conference. A schedule of when relatives of other military casualties in Iraq are expected to join Sheehan in Crawford was distributed to reporters. Her team coordinated an antiwar rally attended by hundreds in Crawford yesterday.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Update 9:00 am: It spreads.
Update 11:00 am: Soundbitten has an explanation.DECATUR -- Her voice suddenly steadying, Mary Ann MacCombie took a very public stand Thursday against the war in Iraq that cost her son his life.
Surrounded by TV cameras and reporters, MacCombie blasted the U.S. involvement in Iraq in honor of her son, Sgt. Ryan Campbell, who was killed in April 2004 in a car bombing in south Iraq.
"It's too late for my son, but not for his best friend and thousands of other soldiers," said MacCombie, who was part of a procession of mothers that protested the war outside a veteran's hospital.
"It is time to answer the call and say no more pain, no more false leadership and no more war," said Patricia Roberts, whose son, Spc. Jamaal Rashard Addison, was killed in Iraq in March 2003.
Many in the crowd of 50 or so supporters held aloft signs proclaiming "I stand with Cindy Sheehan," the grieving mother camped outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch whose 24-year-old son was killed last year in Sadr City.
When Hollywood celebrities stopped protesting the war so emphatically, the neocons lost one of their greatest assets for promoting our adventures in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan is no Dixie Chicks, alas, but at least she's a start. The more followers her vigil attracts, the bigger the backlash: One photo of Sean Penn standing in solidarity with Sheehan would do more to burnish the president's image amongst his supporters than a hundred photos of him beating up cedar trees, or dodging enemy gravel on his Trek Fuel 98, or communing with his favorite pile of real American rocks. And, thus, it's unlikely Sheehan will be getting her audience with the president any time soon. While America's Cowboy-in-Chief may be congenitally indisposed toward horses, he loves to ride scapegoats as far as they can take him.
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