Hat tip to Jim Rose for pointing me to Rightwing Nuthouse (I was on my way there too) for another swing and a miss by the left. Guess they can only hit when Anderson Cooper pitches.

Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Another sweet, even if slightlyh limited blogation, Friday

I hope that Cindy takes this opportunity to reflect on life, death, and responsibility.

We also want to thank rightwing nuthouse for hosting the carnival of the clueless each week. Rick always has interesting stuff.

I know you’re quoting there, but that’s a silly quote. Sheehan’s been quite well-known among the left for over a year; she was giving anti-Bush speeches and interviews in Florida in October. She was not well known among the general public, certainly, but she was in an ad produced by the cows at Moo-On that aired in some of the battleground states.

I think she’s angry with her dead son. Really. Anger, even rage, directed at the dearly departed is one of the acknowledged reactions to the death of a loved one. Survivors sometimes find themselves overcome with _anger_ at the loved one for abandoning them. This could be especially true when the loved one has made choices that contributed to his death (enlisting in the military, joining the police force, or making less noble choices).

Most people recognize this, feel guilty and try to sqelch it, or acknowledge it’s a normal part of grieving and look forward to the end of that stage.
Some people go off the deep end, and in Cindy Sheehan’s case, do so with a lot of help from their ‘friends.’

Look at the way she talks about her son- he died at 24 years old, a fully grown up, adult human being, and she says she’d have ‘taken him to Canada?’ For some time now when I’ve heard her talking about him I’ve been struck by how… belittling she sounds. Like she’s talking about a not very bright two year old. Somebody she loved but did not like and was impatient with. And last night it occurred to me she sounds like she’s mad at her son but is displacing all that fury by redirecting it to figures her ‘friends’ encourage her to resent- it’s more comfortable to be angry at the President than your dead son, so that’s what she tells herself is happening. But she’s mad at her son for re-enlisting.
This is self destructive, and she needs help. It’s a sad thing to watch.

Earlier this year, convicted terrorist-abetter Lynn Stewart gave a lecture at San Francisco State University. Joining her was Cindy Sheehan.

As FrontPageMag.com reports:
The terrorist lawyer, who billed herself as a “Civil Rights Lawyer and Polit…