A List of Famous Attention Whores.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

We all know about how horrible that over-reactionary, tantrum-having Cindy Sheehan woman is.

Here's a few others you may have never heard of.

Rosa Parks:



God, what a harpy. First, she sells out to the NAACP, then Apple computers. I heard she even made a gangsta rap song with that group Outkast. She even had the nerve to criticize Southern Dems. Go back to the back, you attention-starved nobody.

Mamie Till-Mobley:



Apparently, just because this woman's son died, it made her some kind of hero. Did she go around advocating swimming safety? No, she went galavanting around the country, attending celebrity trials. And that open casket funeral was way too extreme. She certainly didn't win anybody to our side with that stunt. Apparently she also made enemies with southern democrats. She's totally out-lived her usefulness.

This jerk:



Apparently, Quang Duc hated our troops so much he had to make a big spectacle out of it. Oh, look at me! I'm unamerican! If you can't stand the heat, get out of the fire, jackass.

This broad:



Oh, boo hoo. We've all got to make sacrifices, sister. Now support the war, or shut up.

These cry-babies:



Personally, I'm sick of this victim mentality.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. There's no shortage attention whores out there. Feel free to nominate a few.

[BeHereNow]

1. I am HOPING you forgot the "sarcasm" icon.

BHN

[JVS]

4. The sarcasm is so palpable that the tag is not needed

[BeHereNow]

6. Hard to tell these days...

BHN

[Bucky]

119. Are you serious? Can you really not tell that post was being sarcastic?

I will pray for you. I will ask Jesus to enter your heart and give you lots of extra sarcasm.

that was sarcasm too

[The Backlash Cometh]

194. You're going to pray to Jesus to make him british?

[daveskilt]

198. is there a net abrv. for snorting coffee out my nose then choking and coughing up a lung laughing?

[TroglodyteScholar]

212. yes, it's scomntcacuall n/t

[corkhead]

158. I hope YOU are being sarcastic!

[leftist.]

15. JVS Sorry for the drama last night

Hey I tried to email you today but you blocked me and I can't say I blame you. Sorry for the drama last night, I was in the wrong.

[Iris]

210. I don't know what happened and it's none of my business, but

it sure is nice to see someone apologize and try to make things right. I hope you and JVS can work it out. :)

[Madspirit]

43. a & b

a.) Bornagin has been showing his support of Cindy in every Cindy thread.

b.) Bornagin doesn't believe in using the sarcasm emoticon because he thinks it detracts from the sarcasm...<g> Truly.

This is a supportive post.
Lee

[BlooInBloo]

61. Sarcasm tags are for idiots.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

I agree.

:sarcasm:

[BlooInBloo]

69. lol!

[daveskilt]

104. I don't get it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

LOL!

oh yes, you do.

[BeHereNow]

100. Gee, that's a nice thing to say to me.

I'll keep it in mind.
Not a bad thing to remember about you, that
you said that to me.

BHN

[Bucky]

120. People who don't get sarcasm on the internet are like people who drive 35 on the freeway

I'm just kidding. I don't really mean that.

...or do I?

[BeHereNow]

209. Well, actually I drive around 45...

BHN

[Beartracks]

125. So they're for visiting Freepers?

Do they work in even in that case?

:sarcasm: < :sarcasm:

[npincus]

176. agreed-- but I'd say it more diplomatically ('unnecessary")

[BlooInBloo]

177. Different strokes for different folks.

[yurbud]

179. would someone too stupid to get sarcasm know what the word even means?

[DWilliamsamh]

184. The Icon was Sooooo not needed. Patently obvious (n/t)

[BeHereNow]

208. As is your profile.

bhn

[DWilliamsamh]

214. Pardon me? Why a pesonal attack?

[MonkeyFunk]

2. What nonsense....

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I agree.

Obviously.

[rinsd]

19. Yup. I was surpised a picture of Jesus Christ didn't make an appearance.

After all the trouble the OP went to erecting the cross....

[USA_1]

80. great reply

[Richard Steele]

5. Recommended without comment. nm

[mike_c]

7. K&R-- good idea....

Thanks.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Bornaginhooligan.

[devilgrrl]

9. ...

eom

[Dukkha]

10. there's this guy too

look at him and his pompous grandstanding

[blondeatlast]

23. And the nerve to block traffic, too... nt

[Prophet 451]

127. I was waiting for him

Obstructing traffic and not supporting the troops as well!




(My faith actually holds this guy to be a virtual saint)

[Big Pappa]

11. I am sorry but but your wrong.

Mrs. Sheehan is no Rosa Parks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Having lived through the Civil Rights era...

and Vietnam, and plenty more than that, I've no doubt that Cindy Sheehan will live on through history as being the same caliber as Rosa Parks, or Mamie Till-Mobley.

And their critics will also be remembered as an equivalent deck of jokers.

[Pokey Anderson]

115. Thank you for the picture of Mamie Till-Mobley:

She and Rosa Parks share a fair amount of credit for the civil rights movement of nearly 50 years ago.

Here's her son, Emmett Till.



Here is the story of Emmett Till, and his mother.

In 1955, one hundred days before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, Emmett Till was brutally murdered at age 14 in the Mississippi Delta. He was visiting his cousins in Mississippi that summer from his home in Chicago. One of his friends recalled, "Emmett was a funny guy all the time. He had a suitcase of jokes that he liked to tell." He crossed a line in the deeply segregated South, and made a pass at a white clerk, on a dare from his friends.

"I'm going to make an example of you -- just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand," one of his murderers later said. The agonizing brutality of his murder is recounted on Democracy Now, as told by his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley (see link below).

That year, two men were tried for the murder. They were acquitted by an all white, all male jury. The jury deliberated only 67 minutes -- one juror told a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn't stopped to drink pop. (The men later told Life Magazine the story, and confessed. Nevertheless, they were never tried again.)

Mamie Till-Mobley was a young, black, single working mother who lived in Chicago. The first time she saw her son's corpse, she was surrounded by her father and two others. She recalled, "I shrugged them. I said, 'Turn me loose. I’ve got a job to do, and I don't have time to be fainting now.'”

Emmett's mother literally refused to let Mississippi officials seal the lid on her son's coffin, obtaining a court order for the return of his body and demanding that the padlocked coffin that arrived be opened so people could witness first-hand the savagery wrought on her son.

Although the torture of seeing her beautiful son mutilated was nearly unbearable, she wanted everyone to see for themselves what he went through while being murdered. "Let the people see what I have seen.” she recounted later, “I want the world to see this, because there's no way I can tell this story and give them the visual picture of what my son looked like.”

Millions saw the photographs of Emmett's body taken at his funeral by Jet magazine photographer David Jackson. Newspapers around the world carried the story, and it became a focal point of shock and anger.

One hundred days after Emmett Till's murder, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, launching the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and the civil rights movement.

Blacks had previously been arrested, and even killed, for disobeying bus drivers.

Years later, Parks recalled the events of that day, "When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night." She has written that she wasn't physically tired that day. "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

And, Rosa Parks was thinking about Emmett Till.

We owe a debt to Rosa Parks, and to Mamie Till-Mobley, for their true courage.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Footnote: Mamie Till-Mobley tells what she saw when she witnessed her son's lifeless body, from the film, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till," Democracy Now, June 15, 2005, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/15/1345228&mode=thread&tid=25

The above is an excerpt of:

ROSA PARKS and HER INSPIRATION,
EMMETT TILL'S MOTHER

by Pokey Anderson
co-host of The Monitor (KPFT, Houston)
October 25, 2005

[MichiganVote]

52. Rosa Parks weren't no Rosa Parks to white people either.....

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

66. The word they used was "uppity"

[MichiganVote]

78. Maybe in your household. In my racist upbringing she was a "N" ho.....

[Big Pappa]

89. Tell that

to the "white" people who stood with her protesting in the south.

[MichiganVote]

91. When you find their names in print, let me know

[Big Pappa]

102. Just watch "Mississippi Burning" if you need help.

n/t

[MichiganVote]

107. Seen it.

[Big Pappa]

108. Question answered then.

n/t.

[MichiganVote]

112. For you maybe.

[rinsd]

12. Personally, I am sick of the cult of personality and deification.

So Cindy quitting the peace movement because some anonymous whazoo said some mean things is now comparable to the shit Rosa Parks had to put up with?

You have to be kidding me.

[gollygee]

16. That's not the point

the point is that there are times where it's good to draw attention to your cause.

[rinsd]

22. My point stands.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. Your point?

Your point would imply having your son killed = getting called mean names.

[rinsd]

30. My 1st post in this thread "I am sick of the cult of personality and deification."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

31. That's some cross you've got to bear, Rinsd.

:rofl:

[rinsd]

36. Cross to bear? Naaah. Anonymous posters on the internet don't annoy me that much.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

46. I thought you were just complaining about how sick you were.

Poor, poor rinsd.

:rofl:

[rinsd]

49. what color is the sky in your world?

Just curious for an update to reality based community.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

59. It's blue. Also, there's a post #12.

:D

[Lerkfish]

97. ahh, once again, someone I ignored for clinton cheerleading I am also ignoring for attacking Sheehan

wow, its gotta be like a....a... pattern or something. Two in one day.

[PassingFair]

167. Can it be a simple coincidence?

I have noticed the SAME pattern?

Facinating...

[Lerkfish]

207. yup, amazing...what are the odds?

[DemDem07]

213. The fundamental problems with all radical centrists is

that they allow the right to define their views.

The right hates Sheehan, so it's easier for them to run and hide from Sheehan then defend her.

[treestar]

185. Quitting doesn't do it well

None of the people in the OP quit.

[gollygee]

187. They aren't exactly alike but that wasn't claimed in the OP

just that they all could be called "attention whores" based on their choice to draw attention to their causes. There are no other claims made.

People think Cindy is being put on a pedestal because they assume we're saying she is perfect. No one is saying that. She's been through a lot and she's tired. She wants to quit now, and that's up to her. But to call her an "attention whore" is to not understand that gathering attention is exactly what she needed to do, and many other people have done extreme things to gather attention too. That doesn't mean she is a hero, or that she isn't for that matter, or that her level of "hero-worthyness" is the same as other people mentioned here. That isn't the point here. The only point is that a lot of people who have fought for causes could be called "attention whores".

[polmaven]

196. I never get enough of that picture.

Talk about an attention.......Ya know.....why is there no equal male word for whore?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Yeah, who does Rosa Parks think she is, Jesus?

Furthermore, I'm not sure about this Jesus guy.

"Oh, look at me! I died for your sins!"

Who does he think he is? Ronald Reagan?

[rinsd]

26. Actually I was surpirsed you didn't include Jesus.

After you went to all that trouble erecting a cross for Cindy.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. It's hard to erect crosses for Sheehan...

when rednecks in pick up trucks keep driving them over.

[rinsd]

32. And with each post, my point grows more salient.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. You think so?

Because the more you post, I think my OP grows more salient.

[TankLV]

170. "party of one"

Kinda like one hand clapping...get over yourself...

You're alone here honey...

[Madspirit]

47. SHE ALSO LOST HER SON

I think that's comparable to what Rosa put up with. I've heard there is NOTHING worse than the loss of a child and to lose one to an immoral war is unthinkable. She is the voice of conscience. Too bad you don't have one.

She is one of my heroes...JUST like Rosa is. I bet Rosa would support her.
Lee

[Bluebear]

117. Pipe down and focus on your baseball team.

:hi:

[motocicleta]

162. I'm certainly enjoying focusing on his baseball team.

[ComerPerro]

133. no kidding.

[leftist.]

13. I just hate that Cindy had to go through it at all.

All she probably ever wanted to do was live a nice, anonymous life, take care of her family, watch everyone grow up and prosper, and grow old with her husband. Bush took all of that away. I took a few shots at her yesterday but apologized for it today in this thread.

I wish I could say something meaningful here but the entire ordeal just makes me miserable :(

ps - funny post, Rosa selling out to Apple. Thanks for the smile.

[gollygee]

14. Martin Luther King, Ghandi, the Founding Fathers of the US

the list goes on and on

[The Inquisitive]

81. ugh those first two are particularly intolerable

[Bronyraurus]

17. A truly hilarious post

Thanks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

70. I'm glad you liked it, Bronyraurus.

:thumbsup:

[wicket]

189. What do you like on your TOMBSTONE?

:rofl:

[AnOhioan]

21. K&R Great post

[kiteinthewind]

24. Touche, Bornaginhooligan! Thank you for this post. K&R!

:kick:

[JuniperLea]

28. The biggest attention whore on DU...

Swamp Rat... has been tombstoned!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=145890

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. Who let CubanLiberal back in?

[JuniperLea]

45. Wooooosh...

That's the sound of your comment going right over my head... who is that?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

51. A freeper moderator.

Some how got the job despite everybody realizing what was what.

[JuniperLea]

55. OH GOOD GOD!!!

That sucks hard!

Looks like Swampy is back... wonder if he knows... anyone have his email addy?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=145890

[AlCzervik]

48. LOL!!!

maybe Padrig is back as well.

[devilgrrl]

34. That's nothing to celebrate...

figures that it's the stupid hair, house and whore threads that do members in.

[JuniperLea]

62. Looks like he's back!!!

I hope he figures it out soon!

[Straight Shooter]

38. Good gawd! What happened to Swamp Rat?

Please tell me this is some kind of serious mistake.

[stellanoir]

40. Swamp Rat got ts-ed . . .???

wow

didn't see that one comin'.

Hopefully he'll be back over time.

[JuniperLea]

44. Do gooder spamming... so sad... he was true blue to DU!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x995039

[Zodiak]

113. Know what was funny?

I clicked on your link and it said "you are ignoring the author of this thread" :rofl:

I smiled...been a busy day!

[Madspirit]

50. I LOVE Swamp Rat

That is terrible. I hope he is able to come back. That just sucks.
Lee

[JuniperLea]

54. Looks like he's back!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=145890

Does anyone have his email addy? I bet he doesn't know he's back yet!

[Dhalgren]

67. Swamp rat must have been un-tombstoned, because he/she looks ok now.

[JuniperLea]

79. He's back...

:grouphug:

[Madspirit]

68. There is NO Tombstone there....

Swamp Rat has not been tombstoned.
Lee

[JuniperLea]

72. He was... a lot of us saw it...

He must be back!!!

[Gold Metal Flake]

84. He posted a huge amount real fast, which invokes a temp auto-tombstone.

Like a skinned knee, it ain't permanent.

[JuniperLea]

86. It was scary!

So glad it's not forever...

[EFerrari]

106. It's the spam filter. That happened to me once.

It was scary. I couldn't figure out what I did. :scared:

[Breeze54]

90. WTF???? You are daft!!

:grr:

[proud2BlibKansan]

101. What?

No tombstone there.

[Zodiak]

29. Yeah, we can't have all that messy activism stuff

now how would that make the Democratic party look?

Don't they know that they can vote every couple of years for one of us pink tutu Democrats and we can ignore them in the interim? That's democracy, isn't it?

Hey...we have Dennis Kucinich...so we aren't all that bad. Yeah, we ignore him, too, but we aren't all that bad.

Damn activist whiners...always complaining because they get sprayed in the face and lose their kids in war. Can't they see I could lose my job if I'm not elected?!!!

:sarcasm: as if it is necessary

[roguevalley]

37. I personally remember all of this. Thank you.

[murloc]

39. I disagree. Would Rosa have gotten out of her seat because

somebody called her an attention whore on the bus?

Would she have called for an end to the boycott because somebody criticized her?

Clearly, Sheehan has ALOT of good and she deserves our thanks.

But she doesnt rise to the level of martydom and/or greatness of the people you have compared her to. She had that potential, but she quit (as is her right)

[Usrename]

148. History will treat her kindly, and it's deservedly so.

If you don't see the specialness of what she has done, then you just don't see it.

Everyone should carry what load they can, and no more. We need everyone healthy for those fights that remain to be won.

[murloc]

151. absolutely - I'm acknowledging that

While I don't believe that she'll rise to the greatness of Rosa Parks, MLK and other civil rights leaders, she has clearly earned a place in history.

[Usrename]

153. I dunno, I view the monsters we are facing a little differently.

Just a few years ago the juggernaut that had wrested control of this country away from the people was rapidly consolidating its power. They really were getting to the tipping point, where runaway fascism was almost assured.

No one could speak out against what they were doing.

Somehow, she was the acorn they tripped over. She made herself into an unavoidable obstacle, directly in their path. She is a hero, and history will probably point to her as the most influential force in halting the blitzkrieg that these monsters were on the brink of accomplishing.

By arresting their progress, she has at the very least bought time, such that a discussion of the war could begin to take place.

No one else did that.

[KaptBunnyPants]

200. Rosa Parks didn't have an annoying group of third graders

pretending to be her allies in the movement. Sometimes I wonder if there are actually any legitimate progressives on this website, or if every poster here is a right wing troll/corporate plant in some frenzied kabuki dance of disruption.

[Madspirit]

41. k&r Bornagin...

Good job!
Lee

[Martin Eden]

42. These guys were shameless exhibitionists

[cboy4]

53. You shouldn't post this. You'll only encourage all of the trolls

who've escaped from the institution and broken into DU.

[Lost-in-FL]

56. YOU ROCK!!!!!

:applause: :patriot: :yourock:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

57. A bunch of troublemakers, extremists, and camera hogs. K&R

[lonestarnot]

58. There's a tiny sampling, yes.

[Reterr]

60. And this guy-I mean seriously look at his clothes

Total attention whore-with his fasts and crap.
And like seriously who like wears that. As many of the "sensible", practical folks on here point out (the pragmatic folks who already know history before its been written)-how can these people who don't have the right clothes, the polish etc. make a difference no?

[Lost-in-FL]

65. Ghandi?? He was such a drama whore

:sarcasm:

[nam78_two]

75. And he carried out mass sterilizations because he was racist

or some such thing...

So I have been informed on these very boards :crazy:.

[Lost-in-FL]

82. You got the wrong Ghandi...

That was Indira Ghandi, not Mahatma Ghandi

[nam78_two]

85. I know that

Indira and Sanjay Gandhi.

But, my point was that, that was posted here a while back in a "Lets trash Gandhi" thread. It is an example of some of the stupid, blatantly false at times, shit people trot out when they are just looking to trash someone. Of course the person posting that bs never responded when I corrected them.

[Lost-in-FL]

88. I missed that post.

My bad!

[tavalon]

110. LOL

Yep, Cindy is in fine company. The people who trashed her, not so much.

[PassingFair]

168. He stopped the TRAINS!

He should have stayed home and kept
his MOUTH SHUT about the British.

WHAT a TOOL!

[SPKrazy]

63. You Totally Rock Bornagainhooligan!

:yourock:

this is poetry!

[blondeatlast]

64. Don't forget this longhair hippie:

[Lost-in-FL]

71. How about him... come one, who would get in front of a bullet just to get attention

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

73. Attention whoredom must run around in the family.

"Oooo! Look at me! I'm Mr. Fancy-Pants! I'm riding around in a convertible!"

[Lost-in-FL]

74. LOL!!!!

:rofl:

[PVnRT]

76. So, then

Once again, we are reminded that we either support Cindy or support the war. Yawn.

It must be hard toting that cross around. I suggest a good pair of leather work gloves, could be splinters on it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

77. Can you explain to me...

WHY anybody would be against the war and not support Cindy Sheehan?

"Well, I guess I'm for Civil Rights, but this uppity Martin Luther King guy is just rubbing me the wrong way."

:eyes:

[PVnRT]

171. And here we go with the martyr theme again

I guess some on the left these days are so desperate to be important they equate being against the Iraq war with the struggle to end American apartheid. Let's just go all out and say this is more important than ending slavery! Or stopping the Nazis! Hopefully that will keep your ego sufficiently stroked.

For the record, I thought Camp Casey down in Crawford was a fantastic protest. When the people around her started elevating her to godhood, they lost me. Sorry if that's too much for you. I refuse to place people on pedestals.

[babylonsister]

83. Perfect! nt

[Chovexani]

87. Can we have nominations for best post ever?

'Cause I'd totally vote for this one.

Way to break it down. :thumbsup:

[Maven]

92. Don't forget this guy

Why couldn't he have just stayed in the closet? Being "himself" just to make "progress." Ugh.

[Madspirit]

94. Thanks for remembering!!...n/t

[Matariki]

93. great post

i might have to change my opinion about you :evilgrin:

[jtrockville]

95. Amy Goodman EXPOSED media whores on Monday (LINK)

On Monday, Amy Goodman exposed a whole bunch of media whores. It's a great show:

Readings From Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's History of the United States"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/28/1427248

[Forkboy]

96. Anything bad I've said about you in the past I take back.

Thanks for this.

I mean that from the heart.

[conscious evolution]

98. Don't forget these two

[BlueEyedSon]

159. Two of the saddest pix ever. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

99. Awesome awesome thread

Good for you!!!

LOL I can see that my growing ignore list has visited this thread. :rofl:

[intheflow]

103. American women are the biggest media whores, hands down! Here are a bunch of them.

These women certainly should have just stayed in their places!

Phillis Wheatley


Sojourner Truth


Susan B. Anthony


Mother Jones


Helen Keller


Frances Perkins


Betty Friedan


Dolores Huerta


Shirley Chisholm


Julia Butterfly Hill

[Oeditpus Rex]

152. I know your post was about women

But if Dolores Huerta was an attention whore, what about...







I mean, a hunger strike? :eyes:

After all, they were just braceros.

:sarcasm:

[krispos42]

155. Don't forget Gladys Pyle!

She was South Dakota's first woman legislator, the first woman appointed assistant to the Secretary of State, and the first woman elected to serve as Secretary of State. In November of 1938, Gladys Pyle became the first Republican woman elected to the United States Senate. Ironically, Gladys' suffragette mother, who served as first president of the South Dakota League of Women Voters and who was the first woman nominated in South Dakota as a presidential elector, tried to discourage her daughter from even entering politics and government. Mamie Shield Pyle feared people would think Gladys was "cashing in" on her mother's work.

[High Plains]

192. Who could forget Gladys Pyle?

I walk past her house every day.

[krispos42]

193. Used to be the caretaker there

That green Dodge Neon was mine :-)

[EFerrari]

105. This guy could never resist an interview

And you know this guy has a persecution complex

[FloridaJudy]

173. Thanks for posting those two

If you hadn't, I would've (and your pics are nicer than mine).

[tavalon]

109. Exactly!

Cindy is in fine company if she is an attention whore, which she isn't ut she is still in fine company. She is a hero. I once read a quote that was something like "Quiet women rarely make history". She has made history. Her place is secure but she never tried to get that place, she was just doing the right thing.

[FredScuttle]

111. I hear ya

Goddamn loudmouth athletes....why don't they just stick to what they know and shut the hell up!

[FredScuttle]

114. You wanna talk attention whore?

How about this piece of work? Bratty girl couldn't shut up about "woe is me...I'm hiding". Such a melodramatic drama queen






"She's in the attic, already!"

Oops....have I broken Godwin's law, already?!!

[Nevernose]

121. Peter should have asked for a restraining order.

Okay, tasteless joke.

And, on a personal note, my daughter did her first book report on Anne Frank a couple of weeks ago. She was told that, although an option, the book was too hard for fifth graders. She did it anyway. Great written report (there were a couple of really simple mistakes made in the last paragraph, but I blame myself), great speech, great poster. I'm so proud.

[EFerrari]

116. attention seeking kick and kiss my remote

[Bluebear]

118. Drama queens! Camera hogs! Good riddance!!!!111111

I will not march in lock step with you people and glorify Cindy Sheehan!!!1111 As another poster said, she has "empty nest syndrome" and must not have anything to do with her time! What with her son dead and all.




One of the best threads ever started here.

[Bushies gotta go]

122. Wow, Bornagin, get REAL!

I just love this. Excellent sarcasm. Good job!

[billyoc]

123. And this one,

almost damaged a very expensive bulldozer with her grandstanding!

[bridgit]

124. most correct & every one a cry baby slacker...

:sarcasm: k&r'd :kick:

[philosophie_en_rose]

126. This thread is an insult to everyone pictured in the OP.

Did Rosa Parks quit because someone called her a name? Did Gandhi or Martin Luther King?

Was Cindy Sheehan burned alive or shot to death with a name on an internet board?

Get real.


Cindy Sheehan didn't compare herself to those people. It is silly for you to do so.

[EFerrari]

128. No. This thread is a tribute to people who never looked for tributes.

If you don't get that, I'm sorry.

[Bluebear]

129. Why does Sheehan get up your craw so much?

You seem to be pollinating every thread about her, what irritates you about her? Sincerely curious.

[Rex]

130. I guess a grieving mom who wanted answers from Bush is too much

for their brains to handle.

[ComerPerro]

135. its sickening, really

[nam78_two]

144. Did anyone say she was EXACTLY like those people?

She has something in common with a lot of those people. You do know that Gandhi was an absolute hero to a lot of people well before he was shot don't you? And a lot of people also thought he was an attention whore.

My grandparents, who were around during India's freedom struggle told me about how many Indians (and others of course) disliked Gandhi, despised him, ridiculed him etc. Not everyone knows at the time, who is going to be one of history's heroes.

[gollygee]

160. It isn't that they are alike, it is that they all did what they did to get attention

for their causes.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

182. She lost her son.

Which one of those four words are you having trouble understanding?

[intheflow]

215. Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted about 380 days, Cindy was out front for at least 600 days.

Rosa Parks had Martin Luther King, Jr. and the national NAACP backing her up. Cindy worked with other groups, but really she alone has been the figure head of the anti-war movement. You underestimate the sacrifices she's made and the strength of her solitary position.

[ComerPerro]

131. Cindy Sheehan is no Rosa Parks. I am sorry, but it is just disrespectful to Rosa Parks.

[Bluebear]

132. How so?

Seriously, has Sheehan not been on the forefront against Bush's war?

[ComerPerro]

136. Well, for one thing, to say her "suffering" is anything remotely close to those at the center of the

Civil Rights struggle is not only ignorant, but it is very insulting to the movement and possibly borderline racist.

Add to that the fact that she is very public about "giving up" because she was called names.

[Bluebear]

138. Cindy Sheehan lost a son. That doesn't compare to a minority's suffering?

I don't subscribe to "she suffered more than ____". There are degrees, this is not a contest.

If comparing Cindy's loss is racist, then playing it down is heartless.

[ComerPerro]

139. well over 3000 people have lost sons and daughters.

Moreover, Cindy's loss was her motivation for getting involved, not a price she had to pay for her protest of the war.

[Bluebear]

140. 'well over 3000 people have lost sons and daughters" - reminds me of F911 "you're not the only one!'

Lila Lipscomb

[ComerPerro]

141. point is, she isn't a martyr on a level anywhere near the people pictured

[Bluebear]

143. Miss Parks didn't intend to be a martyr either.

She has often said her feet were just tired and she was not in the mood to move.

[ComerPerro]

145. she didn't just sit on a bus and refuse to move

although that act alone took either a lot of courage or a lot of stubbornness.

She did much more afterward.

Never saw her point fingers or run away and quit, though.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

178. if you lose a son it is probably the most dreadful thing in your life

she is suffering greatly

[EFerrari]

134. I suspect Rosa would disagree with you. n/t

[ComerPerro]

137. Cindy Sheehan, MLK Jr, Ghandi, and Jesus Christ, eh?

[EFerrari]

142. If you can't recognize an extraordinary person

well, that's just sad.

[ComerPerro]

146. let me know when she turns water to wine (or has she already?)

[Reterr]

147. Do you have anything to offer other that your

VISCERAL revulsion for her :shrug:?
No she isn't Jesus or MLK etc. She is her own thing. She is someone who spoke out against this war when most of us were either muttering about it in our own homes or on message boards. She is someone the MSM couldn't ignore. No she isn't perfect-NO ONE claimed she is.She is also someone who has done way more than I have and overall I am willing to wager you have. I for one, can respect that, even if she isn't MLK or Jesus (rather a steep standard don't you think?).
What is your point?

[ComerPerro]

149. I made my point clear. It is ignorant (at best) to compare her to those pictured people

And, quite frankly, this hero worship of her at the expense of liberalism is bordering on pathetic.

Everyone is so damn anxious to prove how righteous they are in support of her, and is caught up in calling those who don't fall in line behind Cindy a group of lockstep, goosestepping party whores. Of course, they're doing it in a very lockstep way, but that's beside the point.

Basically, so many people here don't give a damn about anything but proving how non-conformist they are, and they can't deal with being a majority party (cause they gotta go against "the man", you know)

[lefador]

154. She lost a son...

... and she had the balls to set camp outside the President's summer home. That deserves some recognition in my not so humble opinion.

Anyways, we get it: "you want to be an individual, just like everyone else"

There is no metric to consider what is more deserving of an accolade. They are different people, different time, different situations. They both, Rosa and Cindy, at least did something... and that is what's important.

[Skidmore]

157. Comer, the comparison is an apt one. Cindy, like all those others,

has dared to stand up and speak truth when not many people would even listen. When her message was not wanted. She has spoken what no one among the leaders of our party dared utter for fear of being called a name. There are those of us on this board who agree with her strongly. Many of us have actively worked to bring these truths to the light and to hold accountable those who would cynically manipulate the people of this nation and debase the Constitution. The very existence of DU is owed to people standing forth and raising voices of dissent, as has Cindy has done. This has nothing to do with conformity but a common purpose--to end an unjust war. Some take the message to the streets using political theatre, others write letters to the editor or articles like Will Pitt does, still others speak truth at the water cooler at work everyday or within their families, and others still have formed organizations.

Cindy's voice is unique and has risen above this chorus of dissent. She is unique because she gives voice to the pain of an unjust war that only a small portion of our citizens can truly own--our military families. She is unique because she stepped forward to confront a man who would style himself as chosen and play God by claiming the power to move boundaries and of life and death. And, she spoke at a time when our very party's leadership would not hold this man accountable.

Yes, Cindy is honored and respected by us for her willingness to speak out. To borrow a nicely turned phrase from Al Sharpton, "I intend to slap the donkey..." Our dissent (DUs and Cindy's) has slapped an elephant and now must slap the donkey. Conforming is not an option. Conforming is silence and brings death and destruction now. Cindy deserves as much as anyone of the fine dissenters noted in this thread to be credited for cracking open the shell of conformity than has concealed much corruption and rot at the center of this occupation. This is what all of those dissenters did. They took a stand and refused to budge until a great injustice was addressed and in times of great turmoil. Every single one of them is to be honored for their unique contribution, and Cindy has earned her place also as one who stood up and stood out.

[Bluebear]

202. Marvelous post. nt

[EFerrari]

206. Well done, Skidmore.

:applause:

[Echotrail]

165. Do you have any living heroes?

I admire Cindy's courage.

Who do you admire and why?

[TankLV]

172. missing the point - ENTIRELY!

she did more than YOU ever did, that's for sure...

she did more than MOST of today's Americans have done...

[TwilightGardener]

180. ComerPero, man, give up! You make excellent points, but you

are simply serving as fuel for the look-how-righteous-I-am crowd. The totally overblown worship-and-love-fest will stop when the few non-kool-aid-drinkers left on DU with independent thought stop trying to inject reality into the conversation.

[PassingFair]

186. "independent thinkers"?

All FIVE of you MOCKERS?

One person's "reality" is another person's self-serving retirement package.

Get yer war on somewhere else....*

*at least until retirement. :)

:rofl:

[kiteinthewind]

216. LOL! And she thinks WE'RE drinkin' the kool-aid?!?!

:crazy:

[Bluebear]

203. I never realized what a sour person you really are. nt

[EFerrari]

205. You have a problem with respecting people who contribute to peace?

I don't get it.

[gollygee]

161. It isn't that they are alike, it is that they all did what they did to get attention

for their causes.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

183. If that's what you've got to tell yourself.

A lot of people hated Rosa Parks too.

[Usrename]

150. This is an awesome thread!

:applause:

[nuxvomica]

174. Yes it is, indeed!

I hope Cindy Sheehan sees this. :applause:

[LeahD]

156. Talk to us in ten years...about who was an attnetion whore

and who changed the country's sentiment like Rosa Parks did!

[myrna minx]

163. Very moving post. n/t

[Echotrail]

164. Well done!

:applause:

[YOY]

166. Don't forget this guy...what a little attention whore

I mean are you soooooo damn important that you can hold up a buttload of Chinese heavy tanks. You see, this is what happens when that liberal victim mentality gets hold of people.

:sarcasm:

[Totally Committed]

169. Such an attention whore...

she's still under house arrest.




TC

[Echotrail]

175. Attention whore just so he could sell books!

[IronLionZion]

181. Quang Duc's self-burning had nothing to do with US troops

it was in protest of Catholic president Diem's violent and idiotic suppression of Buddhism.

Good post. I'd also like to nominate Gandhi, Jinnah, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, oh there are so many more.



just keeping it real

peace out

[Sequoia]

188. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha....your sarcasim is amazing.

[RufusTFirefly]

190. Wonderful, inspiring thread n/t

[The Count]

191. Wow! You're becoming my favorite poster here!

:loveya:

[colorado_ufo]

195. Extraordinary compilation of pictures that cuts to the heart.

These people, these everyday heroes that never aspired to greatness but nonetheless had greatness thrust upon them, should never be forgotten. Cindy, you have earned a hero's status, but you can do more. Take some time with your family - they need and deserve you, too. Then take your brave heart and go back again and do more: for them, and for us all. We need you.

[Bentcorner]

197. Did Rosa Parks ever charge $11,000 to appear at a college to talk to kids for an hour?

[gollygee]

201. I don't know, did she? Did anyone make an offer of that type?

Again . . . No one is saying they are exactly the same. Just that both could be called, by people who don't like them, "attention whores" because they both did things specifically to draw attention to their causes.

[Bluebear]

204. I don't know, she accepted free first class air travel, does that make her less of a heroine?

[nam78_two]

211. Try again.nt

[coalition_unwilling]

199. Beautiful post - Thank you -n/t

[earth mom]

217. I see a LOT of real attention whores on this thread.

The ones who dog Cindy Sheehan and kick her when she's down at every turn.

:puke: