Angry in the Great White North

Of course, for many people, Cindy Sheehan is yesterday's news, but maybe not.

This excerpt from American Mourning: The Intimate Story of Two Families Joined by War--Torn by Beliefs:

John Kerry and the Sheehan Women

Despite her clear connections to Kerry, Cindy insisted that the Democrats were not using her…. In the case of Real Voices and Cindy Sheehan, the connections to the Kerry campaign are undeniable. The clearest link is Scott Rafferty, who worked on Kerry’s steering committee and as his attorney for the California campaign. Rafferty was knee-deep in Real Voices. After its inception in July 2004, Real Voices immediately began having problems with the Federal Elections Commission. Real Voices’ officers repeatedly failed to file required forms, such as the statement of organization and the group’s expenses…. The statement of organization…was eventually filed. It showed that Real Voices indeed had links to an unnamed federal candidate and that it was not a separate “segregated fund or party committee.” …It was clear then that Kerry was directly linked to Real Voices and Cindy through his campaign’s California attorney and Cindy’s blatant campaigning for Kerry. She hooked up with Moveon.org, the leftist organization funded by billionaire George Soros… [Cindy] had spent almost a year trying to oust what she called the “murderous thugs” running the U.S. government. (pp. 127-129)

We know that John Kerry wants to take a second run for the White House:

Will Senator John Kerry make another run for the oval office in 2008?

Kerry says he deserves a second chance if he decides to run for the president.

He says it is a basic principle that "Americans give people a second chance."

He adds "even more so, if you have learned something."

If Kerry decides to run, he would not be the automatic favorite within his own party. He would most likely face opposition from supporters of New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

Questions of how John Kerry used Cindy Sheehan might well become important. Cindy Sheehan is much more than a woman driven by grief. Some might say that she was only briefly that person. The rest of the time she was a political opportunist being used by other political opportunists.

You won't get the answer from reading Cindy Sheehan's Peace Mom : A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism, which is languishing (ranked 228,238 on Amazon) a mere four weeks since it's release on September 18.

But one more thing. Remember all that nonsense about how Patrick Sheehan supported her and was behind her even as they were divorcing? That the stress that tore apart their marriage was the fault of President George W Bush?

Internet Pornography and Affairs End a Marriage

Cindy was in Crawford…when a process server found her and handed over the lawsuit that would end her marriage…. [Her husband, Pat,] cited irreconcilable differences… [Cindy] had a boyfriend [Lew Rockwell,] and…took refuge with a computer that became her companion day and night. [Cherie Quartarolo, Cindy’s former sister-in-law, recounts,] “Cindy had become addicted to online chat rooms of a pornographic nature. She had many men communicating with her. She eventually had physical rendezvous as well... Cindy told Pat she was in love with another man and that their marriage was over”…. When she left her Vacaville home…she also left behind the evidence of her pornography addictions and her dalliances…. During the one-year anniversary of her protest in Crawford, Texas, Cindy abruptly left the president’s hometown to [confess] everything to her children….the Sheehan family’s deterioration was punctuated by painful evidence of Cindy’s liaisons in hundreds of explicit e-mails and instant messages. (pp. 170-172)

On the net, no one knows you are a peace mom.

What will Cindy Sheeahan's reaction be? A lawsuit? I doubt it, since I know the evidence about her affair with Lew Rockwell is, well, rock solid.