Maybe, finally, we can hope, the "peace mom's" 15 minutes of infamy are over.
The Waco Tribune-Herald reports:
CRAWFORD — The Cindy Sheehan staying near here this weekend does not command the same attention or sympathy as the one who arrived near President Bush’s ranch as a furious, grieving stranger more than a year ago.
But even as fading fame, partisan criticism and growing nationwide concern about the Iraq war have contributed to make the Vacaville, Calif., “peace mom” a far less relevant figure, the importance of her first Crawford visit still lingers.
Her call for quick withdrawal represented a radical view that no prominent politician was endorsing. Thirteen months later, it is a serious Senate campaign platform in Connecticut and Virginia. Calls for withdrawal are now raised often by editorial page writers, politicians and even former military leaders.
All of which has left Sheehan herself more marginalized.
Well, maybe it's also because of her love for this guy.
And then there was this idicocy. (Which you can read more about here and here.)
There is no denying that Sheehan's protests in Crawford in the summer of 2005 galvinized the anti-war movement, giving it a momentum and face that it had previously lacked.
But there also is no denying that the the immediate withdrawl from Iraq that Sheehan wanted was the same as calling for a U.S. defeat in the war.
The mother of a dead soldier or not, that made Sheehan wrong.
Whatever the anti-war movement and the radical left think of Sheehan, she'll never get any special treatment in her new hometown of Crawford.
“I don’t know of anyone around here that respects her, I really don’t,” Crawford City Council member Charles Weithorn told the Waco newspaper, adding that Sheehan’s peace vigil has become irrelevant.
“I think she rode that horse way too long,” he said.
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