Time to Go Home, Cindy!
Like so many other bloggers I can't stay out from the Big Drama at Crawford. Let's begin with the latest development: Her husband is filing for divorce and her son-still-in-life is urging her to come home.
She won't care now when she has found the media spotlight she's been seeking in the past year. She is the mother who has not spoken to her in-laws since the presidential elections because they supported another candidate than the one she prefered. I’m not the family-all-important-value pusher myself but as I’ve posted earlier, if you sacrifice your family over politics and can’t keep those separated, you’ve got something missing.
Cindy is all over the news, even got her own blog at Huffington Post. She's ranting on about getting the US out of Iraq and Palestine, that there should be impeachment and she will refuse to pay taxes because her son is dead. Her opinions are capitalized, major way. If that’s your race, accept your criticism to be met. She doesn’t, criticism is branded smearing by her camp. Anyone else who thinks the original scenario (weeping mother seeks to convince president to save other mothers from grief?) has been lost in the ditch she is camping by? From the moment she hooked up with lobbyists and DC PR firms? She is embarrassing. It’s foul aftertaste all over. That’s another reason why she should go home.
The president goes on a bike ride and says I have to get on with my life when asked how he can exercise and don’t have time to see her. Media missed (or ignored) his own brand-mark sarcasm in the italics here.
Cindy is of course outraged because he is outdoors while at his retreat instead of listening to her. He has met her and some 900 other grieving parents before. So what gives her the right to show up on his - or anyone’s - doorstep to demand a meeting? Will she be offended if she is not rushed in to the oval office next time she is in Washington D.C? Should all grieving parents have the same instant access to the president? Does she really think he doesn’t already know what she is going to say? Come on, she’s loathing it all out in international media 24 hours a day! She’s accompanied by campaigners and TV-crews. It’s a new game, with different rules. At this level, opponents meet in televised debates, not on each others doorsteps. That’s a drama that will prove too big for her to handle. Sorry Casey’s mom, time to go home.
She won't care now when she has found the media spotlight she's been seeking in the past year. She is the mother who has not spoken to her in-laws since the presidential elections because they supported another candidate than the one she prefered. I’m not the family-all-important-value pusher myself but as I’ve posted earlier, if you sacrifice your family over politics and can’t keep those separated, you’ve got something missing.
Cindy is all over the news, even got her own blog at Huffington Post. She's ranting on about getting the US out of Iraq and Palestine, that there should be impeachment and she will refuse to pay taxes because her son is dead. Her opinions are capitalized, major way. If that’s your race, accept your criticism to be met. She doesn’t, criticism is branded smearing by her camp. Anyone else who thinks the original scenario (weeping mother seeks to convince president to save other mothers from grief?) has been lost in the ditch she is camping by? From the moment she hooked up with lobbyists and DC PR firms? She is embarrassing. It’s foul aftertaste all over. That’s another reason why she should go home.
The president goes on a bike ride and says I have to get on with my life when asked how he can exercise and don’t have time to see her. Media missed (or ignored) his own brand-mark sarcasm in the italics here.
Cindy is of course outraged because he is outdoors while at his retreat instead of listening to her. He has met her and some 900 other grieving parents before. So what gives her the right to show up on his - or anyone’s - doorstep to demand a meeting? Will she be offended if she is not rushed in to the oval office next time she is in Washington D.C? Should all grieving parents have the same instant access to the president? Does she really think he doesn’t already know what she is going to say? Come on, she’s loathing it all out in international media 24 hours a day! She’s accompanied by campaigners and TV-crews. It’s a new game, with different rules. At this level, opponents meet in televised debates, not on each others doorsteps. That’s a drama that will prove too big for her to handle. Sorry Casey’s mom, time to go home.
posted by ritzy @ 2:47 am
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