The headlines today all seem to stem from Cindy "It's all about me" Sheehan supposedly quitting her gig as number one protest buffoon and volunteer serial arrestee following her rather whiny missive posted to the anti-American website, Daily Kos. In her alleged "farewell letter", Sheehan as usual makes frequent use of the "I" key as she talks about how she's broke and disillusioned and the victim of everyone on both the left and the right now. Unsaid but strongly suggested is the idea that she and she alone in the only true believer in the anti-war movement. Digging past her whining and "poor me" blathering, I suspect that this is part of her never-ending attempt to get on the front pages and draw support from anyone with an axe to grind against the government. Like those drama queens on so many internet discussion boards who pen long rants about how they're leaving forever because no one likes them while all the while hoping and praying that others will publicly rush to their defense and insist that they stay, Cindy will probably be back in a week or two, simply resuming her craziness as if she'd never left or even threatened to go once she sees that either a few people have called for her to return or more typically, that no one has called for her return. She has way too much invested in her quest for the never-ending limelight to give it up now even though the Democrats that did once laud her as a hero have now kicked her to the curb like last week's trash now that they're in power. (Nancy Pelosi used to pose for pictures with Cindy. Now she uses Capitol Police to remove Cindy from her office.)
So what's next for Cindy? Well despite her claims of near poverty, she's pocketed a ton of cash by charging speakers' fees to show up and rant against the Bush Administration over the past few years. I'm betting that she'll do all right.
Of course I could be wrong and she could douse herself with gasoline and set herself on fire in Lafayette Park in the manner of so many protesting Buddhist monks over the years, but that wouldn't be so bad either now, would it?
Got marshmallows?
You know you and I live on opposite "coasts" of the political "continent"; but I have to agree with your sentiments about this "resignation". I read it yesterday. It was like eating a full can of processed cake icing off a supermarket shelf. It so full of self-pity and negation.
ReplyDeleteIf you are in possession of a "truth", you must be willing to live with it every day for the rest of your life and be prepared to fail in communicating it and perhaps even to die for it.
Otherwise, you just gather your marbles and run back home, taking your "truth" with you and hoping your playmates just dry up and die.
I'll cop for the marshmallows.