The face of the anti-war movement fires back (Cindy Sheehan in Seattle)

[Barrett808]

The face of the anti-war movement fires back
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
P-I COLUMNIST

BACK WHEN she made national news railing against the war and protesting outside the president's Texas ranch, I slammed Cindy Sheehan.

I called her misguided and said she was no Rosa Parks. I wrote about "the disingenuous way" the grieving mom had politicized the death of her son, Casey, a soldier killed in Iraq four years ago.

"Saint Sheehan," I quipped in 2005.

On Saturday, Sheehan fired back, face-to-face.

"Who misguided me?" she said with a penetrating gaze as we sat at a dining room table of her host in North Seattle. "Who said I was 'a Rosa Parks'? I never made any comparison of myself to anybody."

The temperature in the room started to rise.

"To say I'm a grieving mother is absolutely true," she said. "I will be a grieving mother until I die. But to think that a grieving mother is not intelligent, is not articulate, cannot form her own opinions is ... misguided."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/366407_robert10.html

[The Blue Flower]

1. Just sent this to Jamieson

"After I pilloried her in columns, hundreds of readers said I owed Sheehan a chance to respond.

You owe her more than that, Robert--you owe her an apology. And an apology to your readers as well for publishing an ill-informed opinion based on nothing but tv "snippets."

[truedelphi]

3. I like it. Well Done. n/t

[mrs_p]

2. oh jamieson....

as usual :eyes:

[Ken Burch]

4. Jamieson usually plays to the right-wingers in his columns.

n/t.