A lot of eulogies were posted in the comments to Cindy Sheehan's heart rending Memorial Day posting. Well, apparently, either because of the outpouring of sympathy, or just the inability to deny what is deep in her heart, Cindy has voiced an inclination to fight on:
Her diary (timed for Memorial Day, I imagine) stole the thunder from every syllable uttered by any stuffed shirt or fruit salad decorated jacket at any microphone yesterday. And brought home to me an emotional reality of the holiday that I had never experienced before.
Well, courtesy of Raw Story, we now read that she has not quite given up the fight altogether. From a radio interview on The Ed Schultz Show today:
Sheehan starts off the radio interview sounding tired and dispirited. She explains that she has kept pushing herself because "I can't say no, especially when people are dying" but that the recent failure of the Democrats to vote against the war caused her to conclude, "I think I've gone as far as I can in this movement."
Sheehan's tone then becomes stronger and more positive as she looks to the future, making it clear that she is not giving up activism. She says, "We're gonna see what other direction we can come at it, because obviously the direction that we're going has stopped being effective. ... We're gonna close up the factory, we're gonna retool, and we're gonna see how we can come at this problem from a different angle."
I think the Democratic Party capitulation on the Iraq supplemental coming so close to Memorial Day was just too much to bear for her:
Sheehen's strongest criticism is directed at the Democratic Party. She says, "It's all about the presidential elections, it's all about politics. And the Democrats have to stop being careful and stop playing politics with human flesh and blood and they're going to have to be courageous. ... If we're gonna get a Democrat in the White House that acts like a Republican, what's the difference?"
What a difference a day makes. Even if she doesn't go about it the same way, Cindy will continue to be a force for taking the right path.