Cindy Sheehan, Eugene Bird and American Flag Sales in Crawford
With Cindy Sheehan’s quick return to Crawford, American flags are selling like hotcakes at the Yellow Rose general store. While both sides of this particular protest are waving plenty of American flags, it looks like only the anti-Bush crowd is interested in defacing them.
By this point, Cindy Sheehan is pretty much just singing to the choir. Many of the media outlets are beating the drum for her, but in our media-drenched society, people have generally figured out how to seperate the wheat from the chafe. So the more Cindy opens her mouth, the less people will buy what she’s selling. Add to this the fact that some very questionable groups have attached themselves to her and it’s inevitable that her star is about to fizzle.
A case in point is the Crawford Peace House, her chief sponsor and a virulently pro-Palestine/ anti-Israel group. Some might call them anti-Semitic and they would have some good evidence. The Crawford Peace House featured Eugene Bird as the main speaker at a rally in Cindy’s camp. Eugene Bird is well known as a notorious anti-Semite who would like to see Israel completely destroyed.
I would hesitate to accuse Cindy of anti-Semitism. I think, instead, that she is a dupe for organizations that hate America as it stands and are very sympathetic to the radical Islamic agenda. As for Cindy’s agenda, I believe, with her little American flag with a peace sign hanging around her neck, she is soaking up as much of the limelight that she can.
Consider this exchange she had with a young man on her way back to Crawford. She wrote this herself and sounds less like a grieving mother than like a woman smitten with her own celebrity.
"We were not talking about me and what I have been doing. Randomly, he told me he had just been in Texas about an hour north of Crawford. I said: ‘Wow that’s where I am going and that’s where I have been all month.’ He said: ‘I know I own a television.’ I thought that was pretty cute."
I just hope for her sake that when the people who are now using her decide she’s no longer of use to them and they drop her, she doesn’t fall too hard.