Responses to Cindy Sheehan's retirement

Go and read some of the comments to Cindy Sheehan's good-bye speech at Daily Kos. It's good humor. Here are a few, with my comments in italics:

Cindy, you walk with Thoreau, Gandhi, King

You will always be a heroine to me, because you were a normal person who did so much for peace.

I tend to keep my feelings up my sleeve but tears swelled up in my eyes when I read your very touching post. [Do tears 'swell'?.] Please don't ever have the thought that what you have sacrificed for our wounded country is for naught. You have left an indelible impact on all of us who are striving to return our country back to where it should be.

God bless angry, furious and righteous women! [And may "God" deliver a backhand to the same.]

Go home. Get well. Get in touch with you and your feelings. Allow your grief to heal you and let go of the fight to change the war machine. [Are they all drugged-out hippies?]

No, Casey did not die in vain. His death has made many of us to be better Americans. [But not better writers.]

I pray you'll stay in touch regardless and I hope that perhaps a little Translucence brings you a bit of your own, personal peace. [You can buy 'Translucence' in bulk at Walmart.]

I will mourn America's loss of you as such an amazing presence and voice.

To be called a radical is a good thing, because a radical literally means one who gets to the root of the problem. [...eyes rolling...]

Dear Cindy - you are the powerful woman who inspired my husband to stand a 108-night peace vigil on a public corner, lighting candles each night and praying for peace. [She married the village idiot, and is brimming with pride.]

Cindy, You are a wonder to behold and you need to know that for every person who abuses you and your work, there are 60 who honor you and whose lives are better for your role in it. Many of these people, like me, love you and your heart even though we have never met you.

Work in the garden of your heart. and when you've rediscovered some of what home truly means -- we'll have tea and toast&jam together and grin happily at the dancing girls twirling past... [Bong Alert™]

God's greatest saints are those who sacrifice themselves to, or help expose evil (such as our government). Goodness is thereby allowed to shine, like a beacon in the darkness.

You've been a hero to us, Cindy. While the industrial-military complex is more powerful than any of us, and controls the Democratic Party as well as the Repub, you did more than anyone toward exposing the lies of these goons, and turning the tide of public opinion. [This hippie reversed the old socialist slogan, "military industrial complex".]

But one woman cannot be expected to take on the military industrial complex, the MSM, the corruption of the republicans and the cowardice of the democrats. [This one gets a gold star.]

Very, very, very few citizens today are actively involved in party politics. In this vacuum, corporate money (the military-industrial-congressional complex)has taken over. [Socialist creativity.]

You showed us how to stand up to power, and now you are showing us how to stand up to the truth about ourselves. [New twist on their coveted, "speak truth to power".]

Last night I had the idea that our ilk should resort to donning blackarmbands that say IMPEACH 24/7. THAT would be the kind of statement that couldn't be ignored if enough people did it. The logistics of millions of people marching is always what keeps it from having any effect since most people don't have the luxury of being able to walk away from jobs and kids. [You do that, dunce.]

You dared to stand up to monsters. You took on these minions of evil. [Is he talking about Frodo Baggins?]

As the basics become ever-more expensive--health care equals big profit, home ownership a get-rich scheme, and the dominant culture extolls mindless consumerism, people are bogged down in more debt and have less time to ferret out any truths and to participate in our government. [Marx could not have said it better.]

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. [Wow.]

Everyone in the country owes you a debt of gratitude. [Speak for yourselves, nutjobs.]

Political activity is a wall against which we are all invited to fling ourselves and destroy ourselves in acts of futile soul killing anger and frustration, but my observation of the American system is simply that the fix is in, and change is not possible anymore from within. [Bong Alert™]