The Return of the Anti-War Mom: Obama Is Worse Than Bush

The megaphone — her weapon — is the same. Even the slogan is the same: “Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan.” Only the target of the message has changed, since before George W. Bush was sitting in the White House, whereas now it is Barack Obama. This is unfortunate, because campaigning against the president of change was the last thing Cindy Sheehan would have ever dreamed of doing. However… “Obama said there’d be one combat battalion coming home per month, and that has not happened. We still have significant troops in Iraq, and he’s ramped up in Afghanistan.”

Change everything so as not to change anything? Still in a state of shock due to the discovery of the “Jihad moms,” Jane and Jamie, the U.S. has now found Cindy: the return of the anti-war mother, the woman who ignited the protest movement. With the same determination with which she besieged Crawford, near Bush’s ranch, five years ago, she now fights against Barack. With her group Action for Peace, she arranged a major demonstration in Washington for next Monday: “We are ready to act.”* How? She does not say how, but it seems that activists are ready to block the streets of the capital and the offices of Congress.

From Bush to Obama. Mom Cindy — Catholic, committed to the church, student of history at the University of California — campaigns in despair over the death of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. When she was besieging Crawford, where she claimed she would only leave after she had seen Bush, this was known as “Camp Casey.” And “Camp Out Now” is the name of her campaign directed toward the current administration. Since then, she has failed to meet Bush. She met and had a discussion with John McCain, though. She also met and talked with Hillary Clinton. She was presented at the elections by the most left-wing Democratic leader there is: the powerful Nancy Pelosi. She wrote three books. She was one of the faces of MoveOn.org, the popular movement that played a central role in the election of Obama. But she is disappointed, she tells USA Today. “I don’t think this is what people understood they were voting for. I think they were voting for a change.” She, evidently, has not changed even a bit.

*Editor’s note: This quote, accurately translated, could not be verified.