What about Cindy Sheehan?

I wanted to get something started with this new page and asked my brother if he wanted to do something on his site concurrent with mine. He suggested we write a little somthing about Cindy Sheehan and her on-hold vigil in Crawford, Tex. I thought that might be a little heavy for the Cheese Log, but you know what? So is a stilton, and that's going to get covered here too eventually.

But in my reponse to him I wrote this:

Who cares? Nothing she does matters. Yeah, she's a ligtning rod. But she's a lighning rod for a bunch of liberal anti-war protestors. Great. Now there's a face to go with the "movement". The administration has not, does not, and will not care what the American people think. There are billions of dollars to be made in this war for Bush and those that got him his job, and it does not matter to them what 250 million citizens think.

He thought that ought to be my post, right there. So there you have it, completely unthought out through and through.

But should that be the extent of it? Is there more value to this woman's action than I give credit? According to True Majority she is doing wonders, and they report:

Cindy herself described it best in her blog: "True Majority has raised money to dog George Bush when he leaves the ranch. Every time he leaves, there will be a GSFP member, MFSO members, VFP members, and Code Pink members who will protest him and say "Meet with Cindy." We will not let him have a 5 week nice vacation when there are millions of people in harm's way in Iraq due to his careless policies. The people of Iraq and our soldiers are suffering. Why should George have a nice vacation?"

But what is this going to accomplish? More importantly, what is her meeting with Bush going to prove? He met with her once already -- we're still in Iraq. If he meets with her again he'll just give her the same lies about our involvement as he gives the rest of the country in one of his rare appearances.

Nonetheless, I suppose I'm glad she started this. He should not get off as easy as he has thus far, though it makes little difference to his actions. And of course, I hope her mother is alright, gets better soon, and Cindy can return to her vigil.