Cindy Sheehan cut-off symbolizes all that’s wrong with Daily Kos as a site and Markos as a person

Note: This blogger was booted from Kos more than a year ago, for the reasons of: pointing out (along with others) Kos’ good friend Armando’s corporate legal clients of the right wing of corporate America; talking too much (maybe at all) about the Green Party; and generally being too independent-minded.

Anyway, as long as “Der Kossenfuehrer” picks only Democratic winners, not people with ideas, and wants to maintain control of the website that way, contrary to “Kossacks’” blind claims that it’s “their” website by his grace, things like the “censorship” of Cindy Sheehan, as long as she is determined to oppose Nancy “Eva Braun” Pelosi, will remain problematic.

Kos has had plenty of Democrats, or staff members, right regular diaries, so it’s not a thing about politicians. And, I know it isn’t censorship, as it’s a private site; hence, the “censorship” in scare quotes.

Nonetheless …

OK, now that I’ve rolled out that little hand grenade, let the fur fly.

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Shame on Us

Cindy Sheehan announced this morning that she has given up because she has

endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.

Sheehan says

I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system?

However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left", but "right and wrong."

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike.

I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

That is exactly the point Andrew Bacevich made in his Washington Post Op-Ed.

Sheehan's 15 minutes of fame might be over but she is right. Being for an end to the Iraq war is not a matter of "left and right" politics, it is a matter of "right and wrong."

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