“The Khans’ Grief Is Being Used by a Party That Is Treacherous”

[SVPete]

“The Khans’ Grief Is Being Used by a Party That Is Treacherous”
By Brendan James
slate.com
AUG. 2, 2016 5:37 PM

Sheehan sees the Khans’ story through the prism of her own sour experience in the public square. The villains aren’t all on one side of the aisle. “I think the Khans’ grief is being used by a party that is treacherous,” she said. “I have all the sympathy in the world for them. Not only sympathy, but empathy.”

She’s not just talking about the loss of her son but also her onetime alliance with the Democratic Party. After “Camp Casey,” Sheehan was a key figure in the Democrats’ efforts to reclaim power in Congress, which were predicated on riding, if not co-opting altogether, the moral energy of the anti-war movement. The strategy by the 2006 midterms was to rail against the now-unpopular war and regain a majority in the House. Sheehan met with members of Congress. She campaigned relentlessly. “Every Democrat I met with in 2005 said, ‘If you help us win the House, we’ll help you end the war,’ ” she recalled. Only one of those two things came true.

“Back when I was working with them after my son was killed, I was still a Democrat,” Sheehan said. “I still had some kind of illusion that they really cared about these issues the same way I did, but they really only cared about power.”

You have to skip the sludge in the first half of the article to get to the deliciously ironic gem I quoted.

Yeppers, Cindy, the D Party and their MSM shills used you, like a cheap ... and dumped you as soon as the 2006 Congressional elections were over. Countless conservatives predicted this! You dishonored your son for "15 minutes" of fame. Hope those "15 minutes" were good for you.

Brendan James obviously didn't have much to work with, since half his article was his version of the mid 2000s. And even that was pretty sloppy, For example, he represents the death of Casey as turning LaSheehan into an anti-war activist. Not quite! LaSheehan was protesting WJC's military actions in the mid-1990s by refusing to pay taxes (they risked losing their home by not paying their property taxes, a local tax).

[Eupher]

Outstanding find, SVPete. H5

Chicken came home to roost. Love it!