{"id":6051,"date":"2009-08-21T18:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T02:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2009-08-21T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T02:17:48","slug":"wheres-the-coverage-of-cindy-sheehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/21\/wheres-the-coverage-of-cindy-sheehan\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the Coverage of Cindy Sheehan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With President Barack Obama heading to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard for a long vacation away from touting the &#8220;success&#8221; of the Iraq War and promoting the Afghan War&#8217;s escalation this weekend, he is going to be greeted with <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2009\/08\/21\/conservative_group_aims_ad_at.html?wprss=44\">a lot of ads critical of his health care plan<\/a>. And something else, or rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvtimes.com\/marthas-vineyard\/news\/2009\/08\/20\/news-briefs.php\">someone else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cindy_Sheehan\">Cindy Sheehan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember her? The public face of the antiwar movement who hounded President Bush for years after her son was killed in Iraq in April 2004. The woman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/28\/sheehan\/index.html\">who expressed exasperation when the Democratic Congress which was swept to power largely on antiwar sentiment failed to do anything about ending the wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s back, or really she never left, but you might not have heard anything about her in awhile. And you might not be hearing about her now, unless you&#8217;re reading sites like ours or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/ABCs-Charles-Gibson-to-Cindy-Sheehan-Thanks-for-your-sacrifice-Now-get-lost-53803917.html\">the Washington Examiner<\/a>. The Bush Administration gave way to the Obama Administration, and while the wars are going as strong as ever, being antiwar is just so&#8230; pass\u00c3\u00a9 now.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s the impression you&#8217;d get watching the cable news. According to Sheehan, the mainstream media &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/enough-already-by-cindy-sheehan.html\">wants me to go away like most of the rest of the anti-war movement has done under the Obama presidency<\/a>.&#8221; Cindy isn&#8217;t going away though, and she&#8217;ll be shadowing the president&#8217;s vacation just as she did with the last one. The only question is, will anyone cover it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With President Barack Obama heading to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard for a long vacation away from touting the &#8220;success&#8221; of the Iraq War and promoting the Afghan War&#8217;s escalation this weekend, he is going to be greeted with a lot of ads critical of his health care plan. And something else, or rather someone else. Cindy Sheehan. 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