Jane Fonda postpones anti-war bus tour until March 2006

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168646,00.html

Jane Fonda told me yesterday she's scrapped plans for anti-war bus trip next March. As well, Fonda will be making only two appearances this month on another rally with controversial British politician George Galloway, not the eight that were widely misreported in the press yesterday.

Why the change of plans? Certainly, Fonda is still very much against the war in Iraq and in favor of helping our troops there. But she said that she didn't want to distract people from Cindy Sheehan's bus trip, already under way and gathering support.

Sheehan, who camped out in front of President George Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch last month, is now on her way to scheduled appearances around the country. Her journey began when she lost her son, US Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Sheehan's tour is called Gold Star Families for Peace.

Fonda, will appear with Galloway -- who is vehemently anti-George Bush -- in Madison, Wis., on September 18 and Chicago, Ill. on Sept 19. She told me that "what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable." Her own decision not to stage a bus tour came because she wants Sheehan's to succeed without messages being mixed. " I would be a distraction," she said, "and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write some op-ed pieces but no bus tour."

[wakeme2008]

1. maybe she got the word

people do not want her baggage...

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Maybe she reads the Sunday Comics

[leesa]

3. Good for her. Jane, you must let someone new carry the load. But you

have lots of money to contribute and lots of time to give. Thanks for the effort. You didn't deserve the ire of the RW slime machine, but none the less, it has defanged you.

[CWebster]

4. How come Fonda is damaged goods

or Nader,(probably who will emerge in history as one of the few great Americans, scorned, like Thomas Paine in his own time, to emerge from our era), while Hillary Clinton is touted as the Democrats best bet?

Please, it is all spin, and pay attention to the direction the spin is always targeted. It is always the Left, and sadly so may unthinkingly adopt the attitude and help to silence their own spokespeople.

Do you ever notice that the unspoken rule is to set the standard of what is mainstream based on Conservativism, while marginalizing the Left and it's strongest advocates? It has been a very successful strategy that has served to keep the Democrats cowering and unsure about everything, fearing the mud that will be slung for all quarters.

[jonnyblitz]

5. no shit..too many here get their ques from the right. nt