During the Bush years when the U.S. was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan it seemed like the media was gaga about Cindy Sheehan. But where are Cindy Sheehan and her cadre now in the wake of Obama threatening to bomb Syria? A recent Washington Times editorial was wondering the same thing. The editorial said..” When George W. Bush took the White House to his Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, there was always Cindy Sheehan, surrounded by reporters and photographers, protesting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She became the left’s pet rock. She packed up and left Texas long ago, and hasn’t camped outside the White House or any of the Massachusetts mansions where President Obama spends his vacations. She may be suffering a shortage of outrage, or it may be that her outrage has a new target. She wants to run for governor of California to depose Gov. Jerry Brown because he’s not liberal enough. But a handful of true unbelievers are sticking to their principles. Medea Benjamin, a founder of Code Pink, the women’s anti-war coven, said during a recent hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee “We’ve been protesting Obama’s foreign policy for years now, but we can’t get the same numbers because the people who would have been yelling and screaming about this stuff under Bush are quiet under Obama.” The editorial said Benjamin and her colleagues sat behind Secretary of State Kerry during that hearing. She told the Times that recruiting protesters has been difficult because many liberals aren’t protesting. “We lost a lot of people who didn’t like us criticizing Obama,” says Ms. Benjamin. The editorial went on to say, “Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s non-voting delegate in the House, says if the president wins congressional approval “it will be because of the loyalty of Democrats. They just don’t want to see him shamed and humiliated on the national scene. At the moment, that’s the only reason I would vote for it, if I could vote on it.” The paper also quoted MSNBC’s Chris Matthews as saying Obama has put his fellow Democrats in a “wicked position” in the House because most Republicans are likely to vote no, and the president will need all the Democrats he can find. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is “going to have to come in with a supermajority of Democrats [in the House] to support their Democratic president,” Mr. Matthews says. “They’re going to have to vote for it to save the president’s hide. That’s a bad position to put your party in.” The paper’s editorial concluded, “The nation, too, if that counts in the calculation.” Members of both sides of the aisle should put their country above party no matter what the issue.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 08:46:28 +0000
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