Good Riddance Attention Whore

Cindy Sheehan, the blundering leader of Gold Star Families For Peace, resigned yesterday after fighting her so-called hard fought battle for almost two whole years. Often called the “face of the American anti-war movement”, she often managed to rally a few hundred generally annoying people to march with her and promote their hatred of the Iraq War, and more importantly their intolerance of President Bush and the Republican Party as a whole. Sheehan made her big slip-up when she decided that she held influence because of what she believed in, and not because she was a puppet of the Democratic party. As soon as she began to “hold the Democratic Party to the same standards [she] held the Republican Party”, her ‘power’ and ‘influence’ soon found their way to the Democratic dumpster, where she was labeled an “attention whore”. Since she’s now been ousted by the entire American government, she decided yesterday to give up her fight, which lasted a whole two years. In the process, she “sacrificed” her 29-year marriage, estranged her surviving children, went into massive debt from hospital visits whilst spending her money to further her cause, and generally made an ass out of herself to the majority of the people who know who she is. Here’s her blog of resignation: Good Riddance Attention Whore

Normally I don’t get too worked up over disillusioned people like Cindy (except when they protest at funerals… that pisses me off). But her resignation letter sent me off the edge today, so I thought I’d rail on her a little bit. I hope you read her letter, because it should enrage any American as equally as it did me. In just 1200 words, she managed to call America terrorists, murderers, warmongers, cowards, fascists, ungrateful, and liars, to name a few. She spends her entire ‘plea for peace’ trying to paint herself as a martyr, telling all the awful things she’s gone through because her son died in the war, and she tried to rally for peace. She nearly died. She’s penniless. She’s divorced now. Her children don’t love her anymore. She’s a crusader against the masses, championing a cause that no one cares about.

The funny thing to me is this lady personifies everything in the American culture that she’s trying to fight against. She despises the fact that her son was “killed by his own country” for nothing, yet she is leading the movement that declares this war to be for nothing. In her letter she talks about the dire failings of America’s bipartisan government, yet she was and (based on the comments on her blog) remains a major Democratic tool, rallying people not around a common cause but rather a common political party. Nothing about her divisive, politically-driven leadership ever came close to bringing unity or peace to our country, let alone to Iraq. She even went so far as to personally meet with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. At what point did it become the right of American citizens to carry out their own foreign policy? Her actions strike at the very heart of what democracy stands for, and are a battle cry for anarchy and rebellion.

I’m about as frustrated as I can get with our country anymore. The drive-by media is the real fascist here, pumping our citizens full of their anti-war, anti-Bush, Democratic propaganda. They’ve even managed to sway a large majority of republicans to give up on the cause and to lose faith with our current administration. Somehow they’ve made Americans believe that we can support our troops and not support the war, despite the ridiculousness of that statement. And somehow the Democratic party has come out as the good guys in this whole mess, despite the fact they obviously still believe this war is worth something, being that they just signed another huge war funding bill. Maybe they just don’t have the balls to stand up for what they believe in, but somehow I doubt they really believe in much of anything, except maybe gaining power for themselves and their party.

So good riddance to a thorn in America’s side. I’m sure ten more will pop up to take her place, but at least we got rid of one pain in our backside for now. When I think of one line to try and sum up my feelings on the resignation of the attention whore, nothing comes to mind more than a quote from good old Donald Trump:

“I think it’s wonderful because I like to see bad people fail. [She] failed. I’m happy about it.”

A little harsh? I don’t think so.