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Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 07:12 PM by KoKo01
From Local Newspaper: "Raleigh News & Observer" and also seen in RW Version reported on News 14 Carolina (a Time Warner Cable Owned Production) it seems that no matter how the RW NC Fundies & Corporatists who own OUR Media...some TRUTH filtered through...because of Cheney/Bush Poll Numbers and Media "testing the Dem Waters..and this is THE Newspaper for the Capitol Politics of NC! What's disappointing is that the NC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK didn't ALERT US that she was COMING or her CROWDS would have been HUGE and we need to forgive and "say a prayer" for these RW Reporters who tried to do Any and Everything to trash Cindy in this report. TIME WARNER CABLE RULES in NC!
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Cindy Sheehan visits Carrboro
07/19/2007 05:06 PM
By: Cassie Safrit
Impeachment tour stops in Carrboro
Activist Cindy Sheehan says of Bush and Cheney, 'We want them both gone'
Leah Friedman, Staff Writer
CARRBORO - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan strode through the Carr Mill Mall parking lot flashing the peace sign and carrying a white wooden cross with "Casey" written on it.
About a dozen supporters followed her carrying signs such as "Honor the Warriors. Defund the War." A group of two dozen more waiting for her cheered.
Then Sheehan, who wore a T-shirt saying "Humanity before politics," walked into Panzanella, a restaurant that emphasizes local ingredients, and hugged those waiting to meet her.
Sheehan's visit Thursday was part of her cross-country tour that will go through Washington, where she plans to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
She was invited to Carrboro by the Grassroots Impeachment Movement, which also wants to oust Bush and Cheney. The 100-some member group wants the Carrboro Board of Aldermen to adopt the nickname "Cradle of Impeachment" until the 2008 election. Both Carrboro and Chapel Hill have adopted resolutions calling for impeachment.
"We want them both gone," Sheehan told local members of the media who captured her lunchtime visit. "I'm holding elected officials accountable."
Sheehan, 50, is best known for camping outside Bush's Texas ranch after her son, Casey, died in Iraq. Last week, she announced she will run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, next year if Pelosi doesn't move to impeach Bush by Monday, the day Sheehan should reach Washington.
A Pelosi spokeswoman said no one was available to comment on Sheehan's campaign Thursday. Previously, aides have said the congresswoman thinks the best way to support the troops in Iraq is to bring them home safely and soon.
In Carrboro, Mayor Mark Chilton and members of GRIM were among those waiting for Sheehan at a round table in the corner of the restaurant.
"Oh, he wears Tevas!" Sheehan said, laughing as she hugged Chilton and noticed his sports sandals.
'She's just so brave'
Over gazpacho and sandwiches, Sheehan and Chilton talked without the media present about the Iraq war and the death of her son.
"She said she was doing the work she was doing so no one else's son or daughter would have to die in Iraq and so that her grandchildren would not be called into war in the future," Chilton said afterward.
Other Sheehan fans sat at tables around her.
"She's just so brave," said Alice Hall, who had driven from Durham to see Sheehan. "She lives her life from her heart."
Hall said Sheehan hugged her when they met and thanked her for being there.
"I admire her because she's not looking at the odds," Hall said. "She's just one person."
Outside the restaurant, Carlos Arredondo parked his green pick-up truck with black Marine combat boots attached to the roof. The doors were covered with oversized pictures of his son, Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
The 968th killed, Arredondo said.
One photo shows Alexander in his dress blues, lying in an open casket at his funeral. In the bed of his father's truck lies a wooden casket with an American flag draped over it. Arredondo is traveling with Sheehan on her tour.
Arredondo made national news in 2004 when he doused a U.S. government van with gasoline and set it on fire while sitting inside after the Marine casualty officers informed him of his son's death. He was badly burned.
"This is the way I carry my pain," he said of his truck.
Taped to the truck's hood is an enlarged two-page letter Alexander wrote his parents. He was on a ship on his way to combat.
"I am not afraid of dying," he said. "I am more afraid of what will happen to all the ones that I love if something happens to me."
After stopping in Washington, Sheehan and her tour will head to the United Nations in New York City. Then, she said, she will go to the Middle East, including Jordan, Syria and Iraq, where she will meet with Iraqi war refugees.
(Please send this "N&O" Observer comments on her article before the "Fox RWingers" go after her for reporting that Sheehan even visited NC.)
leah.friedman@newsobserver.com.
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