"There’s Something About Cindy"

[pnorman]

A Considerable Town
There’s Something About Cindy
by JUDITH LEWIS

She is a tall woman, with blond hair cut in a wedge. Except for her height, she is plain; there is nothing extraordinary about her small blue eyes or her toothy smile, which persists even when she’s talking about the death of her 24-year-old son, Casey, in the siege of Sadr City on April 4, 2004; even when she’s talking about wanting to drive a political stake into the black heart of George Bush.
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Then Sheehan speaks. Not in her rally voice, but low and soft. She seems tired. She says the bus tour around the country has been going well and thanks everyone for their support. She acknowledges that the negative attacks on her have reached a frenzied pitch; Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Hannity have all turned more vicious in recent weeks, calling her a feckless tool of the left. But then she says something that really gets our attention: “The negativity stings — not at all,” she says, chuckling a little. “I mean, they already killed my son on April 4. What more can they do?” She slaps herself gently on either cheek. “So, you know, bring it on.”
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http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/47/a-lewis.php

pnorman

[derby378]

1. Hardcore, man - real hardcore

In fact, I'm gonna try to crank out some hardcore techno dedicated to Cindy. Not her favorite music, I'm sure, but you have to dance with what brung you...

[Booster]

2. We all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Cindy because she

got the ball rolling down the hill. When someone says one person can not make a difference, just tell them Rosa Parks and Cindy Sheehan did it. I'm just hoping we can get Cindy into public service where she can keep up her good work, and, just maybe, we can pay her back for all she's done for the rest of us; not as President, but in a cabinet position under the next Democratic President in 2008. We owe her that much.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Yay Cindy!

I'm sure she's probably drained and tired but she keeps pressing on. What a great person! Here's to you patriot!

[kimpossible]

4. Beautiful article

This paragraph in particular captures exactly what I felt when I met her:

After her talk, everyone goes back to mingling, and we work our way toward Sheehan, standing to the side while others fawn. But in a moment, she turns to us, both hands outstretched. “I haven’t met you,” she says, smiling. Suddenly she has ceased being plain. She looks me straight in the eye, and I sense that thing in her that people talk about after they’ve met Bill Clinton, or Warren Beatty — that unearthly charisma, that magnanimous, ministerial charm. And so I shake her hand and tell her how great it is that she’s not just, you know, preaching to the choir, that she’s reaching people outside traditional protest circles.

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[GliderGuider]

5. Thanks for that. It's no wonder she has found her way home.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1010-21.htm

What an amazing woman.