Peace Vigil Gets Wide News Coverage; Spin Goes Against Bush

From the Quad-City Times, the added local slant about QC resident Caryn Unsicker, who traveled to Crawford to join Cindy.


  From the Heart

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covers it locally.


  
Hundreds Join Vigil for Peace




National
news actually covers the story.  Looks like Cindy is striking such a
nerve with middle America that the spin is turning against the
cold-hearted Bush. 



The San Francisco Chronicle spins it Cindy's way.


  
She reopened debate about war, and, boy, is she hearing about it



In the
Minneapolis Star Tribune, David Sarasohn says that last week, Cindy was
a California mother.  This week, she's a movement.  Wonder
if ignoring Cindy really looks like the best tactic now? [The link
below seems to only work occasionally – sorry about that.]


  
David Sarasohn: Staying away from a mother and a question





If you
choose to read just one story, I recommend a great piece, very
reflective, in the Washington Post by columnist Peter Beinert.  See the excerpt below.



Why has Cindy Sheehan – the bereaved mother camped outside [Bush's] Crawford ranch – transfixed the nation?



…Sheehan's
vigil says … something
important about [Bush]. Sheehan, after all, has only one
demand: She wants to confront [Bush] face to face. The demand is
so provocative because one of George W. Bush's defining qualities is
his aversion to exactly this sort of challenge.



…[H]e
dislikes being challenged by his political competitors – as the
country learned during last year's first presidential debate, when Bush
repeatedly scowled during John Kerry's answers. In fact, Bush aides
were so scrupulous in shielding him from criticism during the campaign
that they routinely expelled people wearing Kerry paraphernalia from
ostensibly public rallies.



…When
Cindy Sheehan first met with Bush, and tried to discuss her slain son,
she encountered this self-protective filter firsthand. “He didn't want
to hear anything about Casey,” she told CNN. “He wouldn't even call him
'him' or 'he.' He called him 'your loved one.' Every time we tried to
talk about Casey and how much we missed him, he would change the
subject.”