So what do we think about Cindy Sheehan?

“Anti-war group in McLennan County loses it’s corporate status

A nationally known anti-war group in Mclennan County has lost its corporate status with the state, and a former member is calling for an investigation.

Officials in the Texas State Comptroller's office said the Crawford Peace House hasn't handed in required paperwork in nearly a year.


The Crawford Peace House is no longer an organization in the eyes of the state, and why that's happened is coming into question by former members.


Their questions began in the summer of 2005, when the nearly bankrupt Crawford Peace House gained national attention as the rallying point for Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war demonstrators near President Bush's ranch.


According to members, donations to the organization came pouring in at that time.


"There were buckets of money that came in. There were thousands and tens of thousands that came in. In cash and in checks.


[Reporter] You saw this? I was there. I’ve been there. I watched them collect it," former member Sara Oliver said.


Oliver said she and other members were told by directors roughly $700,000 in all was donated.


Several years later, Peace House officials tell NBC 6 News there's now only about $11,000 in the organization's account.


The state needs to see the paperwork, and according to the state Comptroller's office, the Crawford Peace House was delinquent in doing that in May of 2006, and still hasn't done it.


Its corporate charter is now revoked.


“Why? Because we're just not responsible about doing it, I guess. I can't answer that. I would like for someone to come and volunteer for us to do that work for us," Peace House Board Member Kay Lucas said.


Lucas showed NBC 6 News a non-specific budget for August of 2005, of less than $300,000 and another for an Easter event in 2006.


When asked about specific numbers and receipts, Lucas said she didn't have any available.


She also said the delinquent status for filing was in part due to paperwork being sent back.


"The IRS was asking us all these questions that I just did not know how to answer," Lucas said.

The directors at the Crawford Peace House may have yet another problem on their hands.

They may not be able to use the name Crawford Peace House.

In documents obtained by NBC 6 News, it turns out Oliver has also filed for the name.


She said if members want to continue using the organization's name, they must answer her questions about where all the money has gone.


"To get that back; they have to go to court. And if they want to go to court, they can go to court. And my attorney will explain to the judge everything that happened and ask for a full investigation," Oliver said.


Right now that's something that Kay Lucas said she isn't willing to do.

A spokesperson for the Texas Comptroller said if a Texas corporate charter is forfeited, officers or directors can become personally liable for any debts incurred by that entity.


One of the directors of the Peace House is Cindy Sheehan.

http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=12520
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Every time you lift up a rock marked "Peace Movement," there's another rock underneath marked "naive", and beneath THAT rock is something entirely different -- something marked "corrupt."
A Soros and his money are soon parted...
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!”

“you can find corrupt people in ANY organization Stove. but that being said, i never like Cindy Sheehan anyway.”

“LOL...somehow its fitting....

No big shocker, if they are stupid enough to believe Cindy's Garbage what do you think is going to happen?”

“http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3286716

My my, the Dems throw her away.”

“She didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left her.”

“Wait....is she still alive? Heck that puts her WAY ahead of others who have lost the faith.”

“Libbies are so bitter.”

“The epic narcissism of Cindy Sheehan
Everyone is getting tired of the sanctimonious peace activist, who threatens to run against Nancy Pelosi and does a photo shoot on her son's grave.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2007/07/the_epic_narcissism_of_cindy_s.html


Even the American left's netroots are getting tired of Cindy Sheehan. It's a shame it took them so long.

Sheehan, the epic narcissist who became the face of the anti-war movement, has been banned from posting any further entries on Daily Kos, arguably the most influential of all liberal blogs in the US.

The Kossacks have pulled the plug on Sheehan because of her threat to challenge the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, for her congressional seat.

Sheehan has said she will decide on July 23 whether to go ahead with her attempt to oust Pelosi - who is, incidentally, about as liberal as congressional Democrats get - from her San Francisco district. "Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan recently proclaimed with her customary certitude.

As most people know, Sheehan came to prominence in summer 2005 when she set up camp outside President Bush's Texas ranch. She demanded to meet the president to discuss the death of her son, army specialist Casey Sheehan. He was killed in Iraq in April 2004.

It would be inhumane not to feel sympathy for Cindy Sheehan's loss. But it would also be softheaded to ignore the numerous inconsistencies, self-aggrandisements and missteps that have characterized her behaviour.

Sheehan's initial demands to meet Bush, and her escalating criticisms of him, had a peculiar genesis. Sheehan in fact had already met Bush before she rolled up to the ranch. Interviewed by a local newspaper after the early encounter, she restrained herself to rather mild criticisms of the war's conduct. Of Bush himself, she said he was "sincere" about wanting freedom for the Iraqi people. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss," she added.

That seems a rather circumspect judgment on a man she would later denounce as "the Fuhrer" and the biggest terrorist in the world.

Less than two months ago, Sheehan announced her "resignation" from the anti-war movement. "I am finished working in, or outside of this system," she wrote. She told the Associated Press: "When we come back, it definitely won't be with the peace movement with marches, with rallies and with protests."

She is currently in the middle of a march.

A more sinister example of Sheehan's slipperiness came back in 2005. A row erupted over an email in Sheehan's name which contained remarks that, even taking the most forgiving possible interpretation, were suggestive of anti-Semitism. The best reporting on the furore came on Slate, and it hardly coved Sheehan in glory.

All of these events, though, pale into insignificance beside Sheehan's overarching trait: her apparently boundless hubris. Her basic position appears to be that, since she has lost a son in the war in Iraq, every pronouncement she makes about that war, or about the wider world, must axiomatically be correct.

Bereavement is no guarantee of wisdom. Yet Sheehan has been encouraged in her conceits, not just by opportunistic figures on the far left but by media icons, including America's most-overrated columnist, Maureen Dowd.

"The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute," Dowd declared in a 2005 column.

Is the moral authority of bereaved parents who believe the war was justified, or who continue to support Bush, similarly unimpeachable? Dowd was silent on this point, though her views can easily be guessed at. Sheehan, for her part, described such parents as "brainwashed". "They know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another," Sheehan scolded.

The sheer presumptuousness of that statement was breathtaking. Sheehan was, in essence, asserting that anyone who disagreed with her could be motivated only by cruelty.

Presumptuousness, though, is yet another signature Sheehan trait. Like so many people at both ends of the political spectrum, she apparently believes that centrist positions can only be arrived at through cowardice, ideological corruption or bad faith.

She has compared Hillary Clinton to the ultra-conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and has asserted that "there must be an underlying shady reason" for Pelosi's disinclination to bring impeachment proceedings against the president.

In her resignation letter back in May, Sheehan vented at a nation that seemed too slow to bow down before her in gratitude. "I have invested everything I have in trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither," she lamented.

Perhaps her compatriots were reluctant to follow a woman whose desperate drive for self-publicity extended to stretching out on her son's grave for a glossy Vanity Fair photoshoot.

Cindy Sheehan is a self-styled sanctimonious didact. May her second retirement come swiftly, and may it last a lot longer than the first.


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They are afraid she would actually win in a race against Nazi Pelosi. So, now destroy her, since she's no longer a useful tool. But yeah, the woman's self absorption is monumental. In other words, she's a typical liberal.
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“What is newsworthy about this? Liberals only believe in free speech they agree with? Nothing new here.”

“Peace activist Sheehan arrested at Democrat Congress Office
By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested on Monday after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker's office and adjoining hallway, authorities said.

Before police escorted her away, Sheehan, who emerged as a leading peace activist after her son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, announced what she had earlier suggested -- that she would be a candidate for Congress next year.

Sheehan said she would challenge House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. Pelosi has refused calls to start impeachment of Bush and Cheney for what critics charge was misleading the United States into war.

The new Democratic-led Congress has been hit with approval ratings of less than 25 percent largely because of its failure to deliver on a campaign vow to withdraw troops from Iraq.

Sheehan and fellow protesters were led away in plastic handcuffs after they refused to heed repeated calls by Capitol Police to depart the office of Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, and a hallway outside his office.

"What do we want? Impeachment. When do we want it? Now," Sheehan and others chanted while seated on the floor of Conyers' office following her private meeting with him.

A spokeswoman for Capitol Police said the 46 protesters were being charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and were likely to be released within hours after processing.

Conyers had raised the possibility of impeaching Bush more than a year ago while Republicans were in charge of Congress.

But Pelosi rejected the idea during last year's campaign that saw Democrats win control of the House and Senate, saying she wanted to concentrate efforts on ending the war.

"The speaker is focused on changing course in Iraq by bringing our troops home safely and soon and refocusing our effort on protecting Americans from terrorism," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's press secretary.

When Sheehan and others arrived on Capitol Hill they were confronted by a number of backers of the war. One held a sign reading, "Patriots want victory in Iraq."

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2337983820070723?feedType=RSS&sp=true

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I think its just shocking how little respect poor mother Cindy Sheehan is getting from the Democratic party, after all her public hand wringing and suffering on their behalf.”

“She needs to keep the seat warm...Murtha is next (LOL)

Who was the charachter...Boxer...yeah Boxer lets see...he did the toughest work for the "Pigs" on the farm and ...”

“Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday in or near the hearing room where Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are testifying on the situation in Iraq, according to the U.S. Capitol Police.

Four anti-war protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct. One of them, who was not named, is being taken to George Washington Hospital “due to complaint of injury” and is also charged with assault on a police officer.

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“Ever since she turned on the Dims, she is no longer 'news' to them. LOL”

“Her hand in that photo looks like it is attached to her face.”

“LOL..take em out back for a good old fashioned BEAT DOWN (LOL).”

“I bet that picture makes SolitaryHiker88 insanely jealous of Cindy.”

“Nah he doesn't see anyway the Venezuelans could attack Isreal.

Now Argentina or Paraguay...yeah he would be all over it.”

“XL, he was lauding Chavez for standing up against the bully "big uncle" up north in some thread last week.”

“Hanky Campaignky from Demorat Leaders

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