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Originally Posted by AustinsCE
yes, and she like everyone else is not entitled to sit down for a second time to speak with the president. Who does she really think she is, that she deserves to talk to the President of the United States, thats what bothers me, this stuck up, childish attitude. But if her son did not disagree with the war, which he must not have too much or he wouldn't have participated, then she is dishonoring him by opposing the war, in which he believed, and died for. So thats another reason not to like her. She can either believe in the concept of dying for your country and her son, or neither, they go hand in hand.
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Could be she knows she'll not meet with him again and is doing the vigil because it will attract more attention than another meeting with Bush would.
In the NYT account, she said she was annoyed that Bush kept calling her "Mom" at their first meeting. I've seen Dubya pull that folksy ol' boy thing out plenty of times. I can just hear him calling her "Mom." Something in the way his emotions connect, or rather don't connect with his words in a coherent manner says way more about Bush on a gut level concerning his fitness for office than any dozen well written op-ed pieces ever could.
I think Sheehan is a bit batty myself but I don't believe her opinions on the nature of this war need to be modified by the fact that her son volunteered for military duty. She will not have a son in her older years. If she sincerely believes her son's life was squandered, she has a duty to speak up.