oh.... well that's all right then. For some reason I was thinking along the lines of erosion....things falling off...
speaking of crawford... http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/12329632.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 08, 2005 Bereaved mom becomes one focus of war debate MEDIA MAKE VACAVILLE WOMAN THE FACE OF DOMESTIC OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT'S POLICY By Richard W. Stevenson New York Times CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush draws anti-war protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road toward his ranch over the weekend and sought to tell him face to face that he must pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq now. Sheehan's son, Casey, 24, was killed last year in Iraq, after which she became an anti-war activist. She says that she and her family met with the president two months later at Fort Lewis in Washington. But when she was blocked by the police a few miles from Bush's 1,600 acres Saturday, the 48-year-old Sheehan, of Vacaville, was transformed into a media phenomenon, the new face of opposition to the Iraq conflict at a moment when public opinion is in flux and the politics of the war have grown more complicated for the president and the Republican Party. Sheehan has vowed to camp out on the spot until Bush will see her, even if it means spending all of August under a broiling sun by the dusty road. Early Sunday afternoon, 25 hours after she was turned back as she approached Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, Sheehan stood red-faced from the heat at the makeshift campsite that she vowed would be her home until the president relented or left to go back to Washington, D.C. A reporter from the Associated Press had just finished interviewing her. CBS was taping a segment on her. She already had appeared on CNN, and was scheduled to appear live on ABC this morning. Reporters from across the country were calling her mobile phone. ``It's just snowballed,'' she said beside a small stand of trees and a patch of shade that contained a sleeping bag, some candles, a jar of nuts and a few other supplies. ``We have opened up a debate in the country.'' Seeking to head off exactly the phenomenon that now seems to be unfolding, the administration sent two senior officials out from the ranch Saturday afternoon to meet with her. But Sheehan said after talking to the officials -- Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, a deputy White House chief of staff -- that she would not back down in her demand to see the president. Her success in drawing so much attention to her message -- and leaving the White House in a face-off with an opponent who had to be treated very gently even as she aggressively attacked the president and his policies -- seemed to stem from the confluence of several forces. The deaths last week of 20 Marines from a single battalion had focused public attention on the unremitting pace of casualties in Iraq, providing Sheehan an opening to deliver her message that no more lives should be given to the war. At the same time, polls that show falling approval for Bush's handling of the war left him open to challenge in a way that he was not when the nation appeared to be more strongly behind him. It did not hurt her cause that she staged her protest, which she said was more or less spontaneous, at the doorstep of the White House press corps, which spends each August in Crawford with little to do, minimal access to Bush and his aides and eagerness for any new story. On 8/9/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:27 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: USA - decreasing in size? > > > > > > Crawford is pretty far north.... you'd lose San Antonio and Houston in > > > the process and probably Austin too... > > Well... they'd still be there. They'd just be full of Mexicans. > > In fact my mom and dad would then be Mexican. So I'd be half-Mexican! > > Jeeze... I might actually get a work ethic! > > Jim Davis > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:168724 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
