Anyway, at the meeting (which included
billionaire, Demo-quack funder, Steve Bing), after the niceties were
over, both Steve and Rob got down to the real brass-tacks of the
meeting. They wanted me to throw my influence (which was then pretty
considerable) behind the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Bing
looked me in the eye, with a serious face and said, "Mrs. Clinton is
our only hope."
I gasped and averred how she had not
only voted to support the very war that killed my son, but was the Bush
regime's Demo-quack cover for war propaganda. Then Steve said this with a
straight-face and no sense of how hurtful this statement could be to a
mother whose oldest child was killed for these lies, "Mrs. Clinton is
really against the wars and she will come out against them when it is
politically expedient for her to do so." What?! People are still dying
in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere) and how can mothers like me even
understand a little about "political expediency" when our hearts are
ripped out of our chests? Not just for one day, but for the rest of our
lives.
The meeting didn't end really well, but I
thanked them for their help and still refused to support Clinton for
anything. When I wrote an article a couple of months later about how the
antiwar movement should NOT support Clinton that was posted at
Huffington Post, the attack dog of the Reiners called my sister and told
her that they were pulling all support from me and Gold Star Families
for Peace. In fact, Dede and CODEPINK, L.A. were protesting at a
fundraiser for Clinton when Rob and Michelle pulled up and gave them the
middle-finger.
-- Cindy Sheehan, "Actors and other Useful Idiots for Empire by Cindy Sheehan" (CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX).