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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: 240 is Back on August 27, 2009, 10:53:09 PM
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After spending weeks dogging George W. Bush's presidential vacations, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is now trying to make life uncomfortable for President Barack Obama.
Sheehan used to pitch a peace camp near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, becoming a symbol of the anti-war movement after her son Casey died in action in Iraq.
On Thursday, she and a band of anti-war protesters turned up outside the media center used by journalists covering Obama's vacation on the well-heeled east coast resort island of Martha's Vineyard.
"The reason I am here is because ... even though the facade has changed in Washington DC, the policies are still the same," Sheehan told a handful of journalists, against a backdrop of her "Camp Casey" banner.
She told US peace activists to wake up and protest Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and complained that despite the president's anti-war stance, US troops remained in Iraq.
"We have to realize, it is not the president who is power, it is not the party that is in power it is the system that stays the same, no matter who is in charge."
"We are here to make the wars unpopular again," she said.
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Sheehan campaigned against Obama.
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Wow,15 ditch diggers.I bet the media ignores her completely this time.I wonder why.
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Sheehan campaigned against Obama.
Geez - even she saw the truth about what was going to happen.
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I almost feel sorry for her, she was wacky before her son died, and that has sent her over the edge.