Cindy Sheehan throws in the towel

it looks like quite a few people besides me are fed up to the teeth with the crap on both sides of the fence... i have to say i didn't realize that cindy sheehan was being demonized by the left as well as the right...

from cindy sheehan at daily kos...

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

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This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

It’s up to you now.

i can't blame her in the least... the state our country is in now cannot be helped by party affiliation, left-right polarization, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, progressives, libertarians, dominionists, christians, jews, or atheists... things will only change, as cindy so rightly points out, if we want them to, which, to me, means we have to come together around the only thing that makes this country a country, and that is our constitution... without that, we are nothing, and, if we wait, bush and his criminal compadres will continue to make hash out of the little that's left...

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