My take on Cindy S. is that she’s done & continues to do a lot of things right, some superbly, for which she deserves a lot of props. However she and I have one thing in common: neither of us is perfect.
So if you spot a weakness in my political stance, do let me know; that’s how I learn.
That said, herewith some constructively-meant criticism for Candidate Sheehan, prefaced by a disclaimer: no friend of Cynthia McKinney can be all bad;)

Okay, here’s an excerpt from Ms S’ article above, somewhat paraphrased etc for brevity; you may want to go back & read the original paragraph, fourth from the top, beginning “A couple of months ago,”:

Today …we delivered… (8,000 letters and over 3,000 signatures on petitions)to (Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi’s) office.

We had a coalition of Americans represented in the 11,000 total and we had there present: Greens, Progressive Democrats, Peace and Freedom party members, community leaders and activists, and Independents joining hands and hearts…”

Here’s the part I have a problem with: “…Greens, Progressive Democrats, Peace and Freedom party members, community leaders and activists, and Independents joining hands and hearts…”

Well, I also have a bit of a problem with insertion of the “America” rhetoric, as in “America without the three k’s”? Sounds like a Chevvy commercial: “America America, God Bless Our Fanta-See…” I guess though it’s that kind of stuff that makes it possible for Ms S. to “connect” with so many conventional avg. USians. “Pt. noted, consider pros/cons later”, on to the main point:

Which is this “progressive coalition”. Behold: a strange melange combining Democratic Party operatives, Demogreens left over from the Cobb/ABB era, Naderite GP regulars unable/unwilling to detach themselves from said Demogreens, and the good old P&F congregation of 3rd Pty hobbyists.

Here we have Sheehan strongly supporting McKinney For President (applause) but over there we have Sheehan all buddy-buddy with these “progressive” Demos. Who when they aren’t promoting this “Impeachment is a High Priority Issue” fantasy, are promoting A) Obama, B) Edwards, and down about P) or Q), a few actually dare to support Kucinich, who of course can be expected to do what he did last time: the minute the Nominee is chose, Dennis will be up on stage holding her/his hand & announcing that he’ll again Support The Ticket.

How people live with these contradictions in their mental processes is beyond me. I may be wrong about everything, but I don’t go around trying to hold two contradictory ideas in my head at the same time.

I find it very odd that Google News hasn’t yet picked up this little story of mine since I posted it last night– often, this type of thing would be sitting at the top of the Google News page for a search “cindy sheehan” (within hours).

Google can be very strange like that– and I keep trying to figure it out. It is my understanding that the search is completely robotic– but who devises the algorithms– can words like “impeachment” make a low score? I wonder.

Meanwhile the Google News page is normally inundated with (satire) news– that gunks up the real news results. A search for “cindy sheehan” turns up a slew of satires.

I almost have a mind to write a satire for a government job description for satirists to skew news results in the information war for full-spectrum dominance.

News story:
http://tinyurl.com/2nt643

Google News page for cindy sheehan:
http://tinyurl.com/2qw6ul

I am hoping by mentioning this, the spell will be broken and the news will tumble out– sort of like smoking a cigarette at the stop to make the bus arrive a little quicker.

Earlier this year, I made a short study of the San Francisco’s poor coverage of Cindy’s campaign, to be found here (as a comment):
http://tinyurl.com/2esupw