You'd think by now every thinking person on the left would have distanced themselves as much as possible from Cindy Sheehan. On the other hand, she is useful:
That Zinn's introduction overshadows anything in Cindy Sheehan's book underscores what a puppet she is of the more experienced Left. She's still their most useful symbol of that strange new notion of bleeding-heart entitlement: All citizens (or maybe, these days, all illegal aliens) who disagrees with the president are entitled to have him stop what he's doing and listen to their complaints individually—especially if they're parents of soldiers killed fighting in Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan's maudlin narcissism has already been extensively examined, but for those unfamiliar with her philosophy, Dear President Bush is a good primer. “Was it freedom and democracy?” she asks rhetorically about the purpose of her soldier son Casey's death. “Bulls**t. He died for oil.” This comes a few pages after her solution for problems in the Mideast: “We need to be more fair with policies that way too heavily favor Israel.”
