Blue Star Chronicles

Cindy Sheehan has announced she will no longer be the public face of the anti-war movement.

Forbes

“I’ve been wondering why I’m killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush,” Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

“I’m going home for awhile to try and be normal,” she said.

In what she described as a “resignation letter,” Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: “Good-bye America … you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

“It’s up to you now.”

Cindy was the perfect face for the anti-war left. Her son was killed in battle during his second tour of duty in Iraq. She had left leanings and was easily malleable. She was willing to say and do whatever was prescribed to keep the anti-war movement in the headlines. She played her part well, at first.

The problem is that she went farther than many of the media outlets were willing to go. She cozied up to socialists dictators, especially Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. She used the progressive rhetoric of the outrageously far left. It’s not that the media minded it so much, it’s just that they wanted to keep their own noses clean. They had to hedge their bets. The media started backing away from covering her sad, pathetic gatherings.

When Sheehan first took on Bush, she was a darling of the liberal left. “However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the ‘left’ started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used,” she wrote in the diary.

She said she sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement “that often puts personal egos above peace and human life.”

Welcome to the real world Cindy. It’s difficult to grow up and realize that powerful people have powerful egos. It’s difficult to grow up and have our childhood illusions of a ‘pretty’ life crushed. It’s difficult to grow up and realize that life is not fair and that regardless of what we do we can and will have difficult lives. That’s the nature of the beast.

With her time in the spotlight behind her, Cindy says she’s going to go home and start paying more attention to her other three children. That’s something I suggested she do a year or more ago.

The left wanted a poster-mother for the anti-war movement and she fit the bill. When her usefulness diminished they started backing away from her. Now Cindy has to deal with the issues that made her their darling to begin with. Belatedly. Sadly.

I sincerely wish her well.

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