Is "Sailor" A Born-Again Sheehaniac?

Well, McCain's agreed to meet with the crazy broad - in tandem with another one:

2008 presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and John McCain have agreed to meet with anti-American war protester Cindy Sheehan when Sheehan travels to Washington, D.C. this weekend to cap her national tour.

Sheehan has meetings scheduled with an array of left-wing Democratic officeholders, including Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman - as well as Clinton and McCain, the Village Voice reported Thursday.

Beats me why Hillary is doing this. I still say she has no fence-mending to do with her ideological compadres in the fever swamps, no matter what the Kossacks claim. They'll be with her when the time comes, no matter how much she tacks to the right. They know it's all BS and that she'll revert back to form after she regains the White House.

McCain is an even bigger enigma, since it was he who was supporting the President's decision to ignore Sheehan a scant month ago:

On August 24, the Tucson Citizen asked McCain if President Bush was right not to meet with Sheehan.

His response? "If I was president of the United States, I probably wouldn't."

The same day, McCain told the Arizona Star that Sheehan "is probably being used" by anti-war groups.

And (to the degree they don't overlap) not just them:

Who is Cindy's "new friend" Malik Rahim? He is conventionally described as a "veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans," and was recently a Green Party candidate for local office there. But the truth is somewhat worse. Rahim is a Communist. Here is a speech he gave to the Communist Manifesto conference in December 1998; it begins:

I'm here on behalf of two revolutionary freedom fighters that have spent the last 26 years in solitary confinement in Angola, a state prison in Louisiana. I met these freedom fighters as a political prisoner in 1970. I was in a shoot-out with the police in New Orleans as a member of the Black Panther Party.

The Communist Manifesto conference was reported on by the Workers World Party ("Workers & oppressed peoples of the world unite!"). The Workers World Party is currently the most active Communist group in the United States, in its own name and through its subsidiaries International ANSWER and the International Action Center, which is headed by former attorney general Ramsey Clark. See this critique of the Workers World Party and its affiliates by fellow far-leftists....

Cindy Sheehan's association with these Communists is no fluke. They are among her most fervent supporters (or, perhaps, manipulators). Sheehan has announced that she will participate in a climactic anti-Iraq war protest in Washington on September 24. Who is the co-sponsor of the September 24 demonstration? International ANSWER. Who has promoted the "Camp Caseys" that have sprung up here and there? the Workers World Party. Who has a special web page devoted to "supporting Cindy Sheehan"? the International Action Center....

Cindy Sheehan has staunchly aligned herself with the enemies of her country, even with those who murdered her own son ("freedom fighters," as she calls them, or "Minutemen" as her patron Michael Moore says). She has gone even beyond that perverse outrage: she has sought out and lent support to the very most extreme, twisted, hateful remnants of the Communist movement, and the last survivors of the Black Panthers. Cindy Sheehan is a hater: nothing more, nothing less.

And now John McCain, Vietnam veteran John McCain, Hanoi Hilton survivor John McCain, war hero John McCain, "If I was president of the United States, I probably wouldn't [meet with her]" John McCain is....meeting with her.

Well, I guess his out would be that, "Hey, I'm not president of the United States."

And it's because of stunts like this that he never will be.

UPDATE: It looks as if Cindy's overpowering peacknik minions are so numerous that Darth Queeg and Senator Cruella will be able to meet with each and every one of them individually:

The AP, Washington Post, and other news sources gleefully mentioned Cindy Sheehan's march on the White House this afternoon. With the exception of Reuters, however, they were all more than willing to forego this little tidbit of information:

Mrs Sheehan was joined by about 30 supporters in her march down Pennsylvania Avenue to deliver a letter to Bush urging him to pull the troops out of Iraq.

That's all, folks. I count 29 people. This is her entire protest party. Including Cindy.

After a carefully stage-managed vigil by liberal PR firm Fenton Communications, and a pair of 3-week long national bus tours to drum up support for her cause, "Mother Sheehan" managed to bring with her just this tiny gaggle with her to the gates of the White House.

The organizers backing her show hope to draw "tens of thousands" of fellow protestors this weekend, but if this sad crowd and last night's turnout of just 150 in New York are any indication, the fledging anti-war movement of Cindy Sheehan is all but dead.

If McCain had more of a conservative sense of humor than I'll ever give him credit for, he would use the occasion of this meeting to affix a symbolic toe-tag to one of Cindy's feet. Given the appearance of her face, it's possible that the Supreme Chancellor might attach it to her nose by mistake....

[HT: Powerline]

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