Cindy
Sheehan, whose son Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq, on
Aug. 26, 2005 near President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
One after another, reportersandpundits, hacksandflacks
all began circulating George W. Bush’s response from more than a decade
ago to the protest of a dead soldier’s parent. It was a lesson in
manners for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who had just
attacked Khizr and Ghazala Khan, themselves the parents of a dead
soldier, for having denounced the candidate as an unpatriotic bigot at
the Democratic National Convention. “Compare Trump to Bush addressing
Cindy Sheehan,” tweeted a Daily Beast editor, echoing dozens of others.
Cindy Sheehan’s son was killed in the same war that later took the
life of the Khans’ son, and like them, Sheehan in 2005 was both a living
rebuke to the Republican Party’s vision and an asset to the Democrats
in their mission to take back the House. A California soccer mom turned
anti-war activist, Sheehan had set up camp outside of Bush’s ranch in
Crawford, Texas, where she’d planned to stay until Bush had granted her a
meeting.
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