By Jacqueline Klingebiel

Oct 6, 2009 11:41am

Cindy Sheehan Moving to Washington

ABC News’ Yunji de Nies and Sunlen Miller report: She’s back and this time, she’s here to stay. Cindy Sheehan says she is moving to Washington. The anti-war activist was outside the White House for the second day in a row, with a bullhorn and a handful of protestors, shouting against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo and calling for “health care not warfare.”

Sheehan became a prominent voice against the Iraq war after her son Special Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq 2004, and spent years hounding George W. Bush. Now, she’s turned her attention to President Barack Obama, recently following him on his family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, and now planning to move to D.C. sometime this winter. Sheehan says she sees no difference between the foreign policy of the last president and this one.

“Sometimes I look at what I think Senator McCain would be doing, and what Obama’s doing and I can’t discern any difference. And I think that Obama’s foreign policy is obviously a continuation. When you have Robert Gates. When you have McChrystal. When you have Hillary Clinton, who is supposed to be the secretary of state, but who has always been for these wars of aggression. I see is clearly a continuation, a continuation of the policy of empire,” Sheehan told ABC News.

Park Police arrested Sheehan and 60 other protestors yesterday, after Sheehan chained herself to the fence on the North Lawn. Sheehan says she refuses to pay the fine and that she and other anti-war activists plan to “step up” their protests until the administration shows a willingness to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

“We’re going to create a movement that’s going to demand a change of policy,” she said, explaining that her plan is to create large, coordinated acts of civil resistance, “It’s going to be massive.”

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Doubt this will get the coverage that camping outside Bush’s Crawford ranch got. If it does I will be shocked.

Posted by: 'Un-Amercican' | October 6, 2009, 11:48 am 11:48 am

Sorry, Cindy, but Levi Johnston just stole your 15 minutes of fame.

Posted by: carl | October 6, 2009, 11:56 am 11:56 am

Thats where the rest of the nuts are so
she iwill fit in perfectly.

Posted by: wis134 | October 6, 2009, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

Question: Who is paying for her stay in DC?????????

Posted by: Lizzie | October 6, 2009, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

Posted by: American | October 6, 2009, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

I guess it takes a new president to get Cindy some more coverage. While the Right is sure to indulge in their favorite pastime of whining about media bias, the documented reality is the press ignored her the last year or two of the Republican administration. She just wasn’t that interesting a story after the initial flash in the pan (did you know that she apparently bought land in Crawford? Neither did I, because no one cared about her after 05-06…).

Posted by: jhw539 | October 6, 2009, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

Cindy Sleestack is back! At least she’s consistent. I’ll give her that. So many anti-war folk were merely shallow chanters trying to make political leverage of the deaths of soldiers for their own gain against Bush. You don’t see them now, except a few and Cindy.

Posted by: TexBork009 | October 6, 2009, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

Cindy is no longer a hero of the left or a media darling now that she’s protesting Obama’s war..
They’ll welcome her back in 2012 when Palin becomes president.
Obama will keep us in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his term.
So much for the anti-war president.

Posted by: harry | October 6, 2009, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

The hypocrites in the media only paid attention to Sheehan because it made Bush look bad.
They could care less what she stands for.
Now that she makes Obama look bad the ObamaMedia is not interested.
Any wonder that the media has lost all credibility and public trust?

Posted by: ollie | October 6, 2009, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

“Any wonder that the media has lost all credibility and public trust?”
A Sacred Heart University poll found that Fox News was, by far, the LEAST trusted news organization. Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly said: “For doing the study, the folks at Sacred Heart are patriots.”

Posted by: WWW | October 6, 2009, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

So where have the war protests been, I have not seen her on TV for a long time… you know there might just be more than a tad of biased in the news media… Maybe it is Obamam Media. thank you

Posted by: bob | October 6, 2009, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

“Doubt this will get the coverage that camping outside Bush’s Crawford ranch got. If it does I will be shocked.”
Willing suspension of reality
“ITS GETTING COVERAGE NOW IDIOT” in all newspapers and on line outlete
Posted by: American | Oct 6, 2009 12:04:53 PM
Is that so? I have been listening to ABC NEWS all day on the radio and not heard a word. I just check front page of Fox News.com and did not see it nor is it on the front page of ABCnews.com I checked GOOGLE news not there. You only find it burried in Tappers BLOG. Also I do not believe my post deserved any name calling. If you do not think the media pumped up the coverage of Cindy when she was in Crawford you are intellectually dishonest. Now that she is in DC she will be ingored or maybe even the left in the media will start to say she is looney.

Posted by: 'Un-Amercican' | October 6, 2009, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

“Sheehan says she sees no difference between the foreign policy of the last president and this one.”
=======================================
Mostly I agree with Sheehan. Obama is more worst than Bush. The reason is that Obama and his Admin. don’t have any affordable strategies to win about the two wars as well as saving of unemployment of 15,000,000 in USA.
Obama’s first sentimental strategy yield six times more victims
than Bush’s era. In the future, American history will judge Obama’s poor the judgement.

Posted by: JR | October 6, 2009, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

She has the right to protest and she’s doing it for the right reasons – doesn’t matter if you agree with her or not.
Cindy, Keep up the good fight.

Posted by: Another mother | October 6, 2009, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

All of yall need to support what our soldiers are fighting for and stop being stupid… If it wasnt for our soldiers you guys wouldnt be able to say and do the stupid stuff you are sayin and doing right now. i hope yall get smart soon!!!

Posted by: Shawn | October 6, 2009, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

Let’s give her the Oval Office and see how she will do…..Cindy for Prez in 2012!

Posted by: joe | October 6, 2009, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

People can protest whatever they want. It’s too bad her protesting won’t bring back her son. I wonder if she ever sold her house in Crawford TX next to the George Bush estate. I guess you left-wingers will have to deal with her now.

Posted by: Holycow | October 6, 2009, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

Why go to DC. Obama is never there.

Posted by: 912er | October 6, 2009, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

Mrs. Sheehan, how would your son feel about what you are doing? Did he think joining the army had no risks?

Posted by: Sandy | October 6, 2009, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

For the vast majority of the Left, War without George W. Bush is just not War at all. That is why Cindy is being ignored now. She was simply a useful tool for the Left’s eternally outrageously outrageous righteous outrage against all things Republican when the GOP held the White House. She has outlived her usefulness.

Posted by: carl | October 6, 2009, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

She has outlived her usefulness.
Posted by: carl
is that the ‘new’ Republican health care policy?

Posted by: PO'd | October 6, 2009, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

They’ll welcome her back in 2012 when Palin becomes president.
Posted by: harry
Harry, I would like to make a wager with you as to whether Palin becomes president… we can meet, get some lawyers, word it to make it real official and binding… whatcha say, wanna man up to the challange?

Posted by: PO'd | October 6, 2009, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Sad. She apparently can’t get on with her life.

Posted by: Rick McDaniel | October 6, 2009, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

She has outlived her usefulness.
Posted by: carl
is that the ‘new’ Republican health care policy?
Posted by: PO’d | Oct 6, 2009 3:30:17 PM
It was the Democrats who created the death panels cleverly titled “end of life guidance”–but then had to remove them from the Senate bill when they got caught. How else is ObamaCare going to pay for itself? And it was Obama’s DoD that created the pamphlets advising severely disabled veterans on how to end their lives.

Posted by: carl | October 6, 2009, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Posted by: WWW “A Sacred Heart University poll found that Fox News was, by far, the LEAST trusted news organization. Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly said: “For doing the study, the folks at Sacred Heart are patriots.”
That same poll also found Fox News the MOST trusted news organization. Funny how you left out that little fact!
Here is the actual report from the poll verbatim:
Those named most frequently as the television news organization most trusted for accurate reporting in 2009 included: Fox News (30.0%), CNN (19.5%), NBC News (7.5%) and ABC News (7.5%). Fox News was also the television news organization trusted least. Just over one-quarter, 26.2%, named Fox News, followed by NBC News (9.9%), MSNBC (9.4%), CNN (8.5%), CBS News (5.3%) and ABC News (3.7%).

Posted by: Keep it Real | October 6, 2009, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

Posted by: 'Un-Amercican' | October 6, 2009, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

“That same poll also found Fox News the MOST trusted news organization. Funny how you left out that little fact!”
No, what’s funny is how Bill O’Reilly completely left out the last half of the paragraph about Fox being the least trusted news organization. Not very “Fair and Balanced” of Mr. No-Spin-Zone to do that, don’t you think?

Posted by: WWW | October 6, 2009, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

carl wrote: “It was the Democrats who created the death panels cleverly titled “end of life guidance”–but then had to remove them from the Senate bill when they got caught. How else is ObamaCare going to pay for itself? And it was Obama’s DoD that created the pamphlets advising severely disabled veterans on how to end their lives.”
Sarah Palin’s bogus death panels weren’t in the Senate bill; she claimed they were in the house bill (HR 3200). Her spokeswoman said that Palin was specifically referring to section 1233. After the Senate Finance Committee announced they would remove the end-of-life provision from their bill, Palin falsely claimed they were removing section 1233 from HR 3200.
The VA booklet on advance care planning was not created by Obama’s DoD; it has been around since 1997. It does not advise veterans on “how to end their lives.” Even Sarah “Death Panel” Palin supported advance care planning before she quit her job as Governor of Alaska.

Posted by: WWW | October 6, 2009, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

Maybe she can meet with the Dolly Llama
guy.

Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | October 6, 2009, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

“After the Senate Finance Committee announced they would remove the end-of-life provision from their bill….”
Posted by: WWW | Oct 6, 2009 4:55:09 PM
SO, Sen. Baucus got caught and had to remove his “death panel” provision from the Senate bill because of all the negative press.

Posted by: Health Czar | October 6, 2009, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

“SO, Sen. Baucus got caught and had to remove his “death panel” provision from the Senate bill because of all the negative press.”
The section referenced by Palin was in the House bill.
We have a bicameral legislature. (its a big word you may want to look it up) in which we have a House of Representatives and a Senate.
No wonder the right wing buys the lies.
Its the stupidity

Posted by: Ryan C | October 6, 2009, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

“That same poll also found Fox News the MOST trusted news organization. Funny how you left out that little fact!”
The same idiots who supported Bush at the end are the same idiots who think FoxNews is trustworthy.

Posted by: Ryan C | October 6, 2009, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm

Posted by: arkie vet | October 6, 2009, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

WWW–”The VA booklet on advance care planning was not created by Obama’s DoD; it has been around since 1997.”—
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You are not exactly right on this.. but then folks like you and Ryan C routinely skew the true a bit..
It was created in 1997 true enough.. but it was removed from circulation by Bush for the very reason mentioned above. The basic questions posed in the booklet lent themselves to the intrepretation that the book was designed to assertain at what point a person no longer wanted to live…Bush removed it as inappropriate and Obama reinstated it…THIS YEAR…
Intrepret that action in what ever way you choose.. personally, I can see no reason for it.. at least no GOOD reason..

Posted by: arkie vet | October 6, 2009, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm

Another mother –”She has the right to protest and she’s doing it for the right reasons – doesn’t matter if you agree with her or not.”—
___________
NO she’s not… protesting a war her own son fought and died in with honor..
I find it interesting that over one year after her son had been brought home, she found countless hours to camp out in texas and protest Bush. She found plenty of time to give speechs, to rub elbows with Jesse Jackson, to make the talk circuit and yet she couldn’t find the time to have the government provided tombstone placed on her son’s grave..
The right reasons??? You really think so??

Posted by: arkie vet | October 6, 2009, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

This woman is a disgrace to the United States, and mankind in general. She’s just a disgrace to humanity! It’s a good thing her son isn’t here to see what she’s been up to. He probably would have disowned her.

Posted by: JV | October 6, 2009, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

She seems to have the intelligence of a turkey sandwich.

Posted by: JV | October 6, 2009, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

With love to Cindy.
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Posted by: GravKuciPaulNade | October 6, 2009, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

Get along home, Cindy Cindy.
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
We don’t want you here no more.
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
you’re not useful anymore.
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
It’s no more Bush’s war.
Democrat hypocrites who politicized the war to discredit President Bush and get their power back at the expense of our soldiers and their mission have no more use for the Cindy they created. Poor pitiful thing. She never caught on that she was just being used in their awful and dishonest political games. Hateful and abhorrent what they did. But, they are saints, don’t you know.

Posted by: Texasbelle | October 7, 2009, 12:04 am 12:04 am

Ryan C –”The same idiots who supported Bush at the end are the same idiots who think FoxNews is trustworthy.”—
_________________
Another name for “those idiots” would be a MAJORITY of Americans.. Fox news watchers now outnumber CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC watchers COMBINED..
Posted by: arkie vet | Oct 6, 2009 6:25:59 PM
30% isn’t a majority, or did you forget already what those patriots at Sacred Heart found? Also don’t forget about the 26% who trust Fox the least.
Do you not see the irony of the “No Spin Zone” host on the “Fair and Balanced” channel telling his viewers only half the story about its trustworthiness?
And, from the NYT, September 3rd: “Added together, the evening news shows from ABC, CBS, and NBC reach about 20 million viewers each day. Given the fragmentation of the American audience over the past 30 years, 20 million is a pretty impressive number. Four times more impressive, in fact, than the sum of the average audiences that CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC attract during prime-time.”

Posted by: WWW | October 7, 2009, 12:38 am 12:38 am

I really have to say this: Those that are bashing Cindy Sheehan on this forum know nothing about Cindy or her actions, events and campaigns. Cindy IS the anti-war movement. And those that are bashing Cindy Sheehan seem to be about the same demographic as Jerry Springer fans (or at least the same intelligence level.) To them I ask: What have you done?

Posted by: Joshua Smith | October 7, 2009, 12:57 am 12:57 am

arkie vet wrote: “It was created in 1997 true enough.. but it was removed from circulation by Bush for the very reason mentioned above.”
Funny thing about that VA booklet being removed in 2007 – Bush’s Faith Czar James Towey was trying to sell his own end-of-life booklet to the VA that very same year.
Heh.

Posted by: WWW | October 7, 2009, 12:58 am 12:58 am

“I really have to say this: Those that are bashing Cindy Sheehan on this forum know nothing about Cindy or her actions, events and campaigns. Cindy IS the anti-war movement. And those that are bashing Cindy Sheehan seem to be about the same demographic as Jerry Springer fans (or at least the same intelligence level.) To them I ask: What have you done?”
Posted by: Joshua Smith | Oct 7, 2009 12:57:57 AM
But wait, we don’t NEED an anti-war movement in the glorious age of Obama. That’s why hardly hear about anti-war protests anymore, and why the press give only quiet mention to reports of troop deaths. Save your energy for the next Republican President.

Posted by: Libs and The Lying Liars Who Elect Them | October 7, 2009, 9:12 am 9:12 am

Can someone tell me, what exactly does this nutbomb do for a living? just wondering how she supports herself.

Posted by: Jambalaya | October 7, 2009, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

Oh great! Cindy moving to the DC area? There goes the neighborhood!

Posted by: J. Ritchie | October 7, 2009, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Have fun, Barack!

Posted by: Wade | October 7, 2009, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

Cindy Sheehan is a great humanitarian. She is standing strong against these unjust wars.
Go, Cindy, Go! We Love You!
An ex-George W. Bush supporter. You know George Bush, Enemy of the U.S. Constitution (please see Patriot Act).

Posted by: Neo Con No More | October 7, 2009, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

There is nothing more patriotic than civil unrest. keep it up.

Posted by: anon | October 7, 2009, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

Her son is a hero. She defiles his memory with her crazy rants.

Posted by: Kathy L. | October 7, 2009, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

WHO CARES? DUH.

Posted by: Jimbo | October 7, 2009, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

anon – yeah, civil unrest to protest all the screw-ups in the Obama adm in just eight months. Most of us understand that if you are under 45 or so your chances of receiving social security benefits are SLIM AND NONE!!! Actually, I am seventy and I am only counting on about five or six more years max of receiving SS benefits.

Posted by: Jimbo | October 7, 2009, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

This nutbag is a good for nothing joke. Sheehan is a disgrace to humanity PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: JV | October 7, 2009, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

What good has she ever done for this country!??

Posted by: JV | October 7, 2009, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

You have to wonder why the corporate press is covering anti-war protesting more now than it did when there were millions of people in the streets.

Posted by: Flash Override | October 7, 2009, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

From all the pro Sheehan posts here, I see that lunacy is alive and well.

Posted by: Chuck | October 8, 2009, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Three words Cindy…Ignorance is Bliss…

Posted by: Parallex View | October 8, 2009, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

Cindy is a leech – she lives on donations and campaign funds. She hasn’t had a job since 2004.

Posted by: horseface | October 8, 2009, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

Why do you worry about the crumbs that Cindy is living on when the whole country is being looted? It is time to stop cooperating.

Posted by: woodchuck | October 10, 2009, 8:24 am 8:24 am

Funny how neolibs loved Cindy when she protested Bush but now they try to dismiss her.

Posted by: Sterling Flats | October 11, 2009, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

What a fool this woman is. Used used used and not smart enough to know it. No one cares about her now that Bush is gone, she just continues to show the world what fool she was played for.
Keep going Cindy, none of you Liberal friends care any longer. You served your purpose. Now go away and leave Mr O to do his thing. If not they will destroy you. Audit your taxes, make life hell for you if you protest Mr O.

Posted by: Bob Tussey | October 11, 2009, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

I sympathize with Ms. Sheehan, but disagree with her methods. My question is why her protests of President Bush (even her recent one at his Dallas home) are so heavily covered by the media while her protests of President Obama are ignored? Complain all you want about a Fox news bias, but the lack of Sheehan’s Obama protests in the mainstream media is condeming of the liberal press.

Posted by: CowboyBob | October 28, 2009, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

cindy shehan is a brazen hussy. my question is this, why didnt just simply go down to the recruiting station and ask them to declare her son 4f. this is her own fault, because the u.s cant send these people that cant fight. casey shehan would have had their full sympathy, believe you me. im sure she doesnt understand that. i love the u.s. and had i have been 40 again, i would have gone over there gladly.

Posted by: matilda jones | November 18, 2009, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

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