What the Left can learn from Cindy Sheehan

"When is a lone woman enough to seriously challenge the media shield and public relations spin that effectively envelops the President of the United States? Let us say that it takes either a master of the ebbs and flows of the operations of our news media, or more hopefully, a determined woman and a confluence of events of horrible, improbable coincidence.

"As most readers are aware, Cindy Sheehan is a woman whose son died in Iraq, a war she supported at the time and has since come to question. As more and more evidence is made available regarding the ideological machinations that drove the war's timetable and the incompetence which submarined the post-war planning, Cindy has come to the same conclusion as many: the death of her son, and the poor prosecution of the war that put her son in harm's way, can be blamed on the Commander-in-Chief, one George W. Bush. And so, determined to meet with him to discuss her son a second time (the first meeting, shall we say, went poorly), she has camped outside of Bush's Crawford Ranch and demanded an audience with the President. So far, no audience has been forthcoming.

"The New York Times offers some of the details:"

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