In her latest bid for media attention, Cindy Sheehan has been arrested by police once again, this time during a protest in front of the White House. Last week she was seen getting cozy with everyone’s favorite commie dictator (move over Fidel!) Hugo Chavez. During their meeting, Chavez expressed support for Sheehan’s tentative plan to run for Congress. Other politicians supported by Chavez include Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
If she decides to run for Congress, I think she’d do much better if she dumped her current sponsors. The far-left organizations currently ponying up for Sheehan’s plane tickets and port-a-potties are relatively obscure, and lack the sassy, cutting-edge image she needs to attract other unemployed malcontents. I’d suggest soliciting sponsorship from companies like Zumiez, Mountain Dew, and maybe the guys who make those food storage container things where all the lids fit. Also, it spins.
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Fun story on Cindy. As you are aware, I am one of the aforementioned “lefties”, and I have spent the past couple of weeks making the exact points to my “fellow travellers” that you do here.
My problem with Chavez is not that he’s an evil Commie (he ain’t) or that he’s all huggy kissy with Castro (he is), but that when the US right wing think tankers at the NED have pumped millions into attempts to subvert and overthrow Chavez in unsuccessful coup attempts, he dropped to their level.
He has now passed laws prohibiting free speech and freedom of the press, and so loses the moral high ground.
Sheehan loses too, just like the US “Reds” who defended Stalin in the ’30s.
Your guys in this fight are wholly without scruples as well, so Pot. Meet lettle.