Cindy Sheehan continues to show her increasing detachment from reality. Honestly. From the Huffington Post (via a Drudge link), we learn that she wants the President to pull troops out of “occupied New Orleans” in a peak into what comes across as, essentially, the demented ravings of a woman who has lost her mind.

If George Bush truly listened to God and read the words of the Christ, Iraq and the devastation in New Orleans would have never happened.
I don’t care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don’t care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don’t care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her. George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power. The only way America will become more secure is if we have a new administration that cares about Americans even if they don’t fall into the top two percent of the wealthiest.

The devestation of New Orleans (we’ll just leave Iraq out of this for the moment) happened because Bush wasn’t a better Christian? I expect that talk from the Fred Phelps types, but not from someone who is counseling Bush to remove troops and the Federal relief efforts from one of the hardest hit (occupied!) cities.

Sheehan cannot be taken seriously as a spokeswoman for any cause; her complete removal from anything resembling the real world, her reliance on tears and overwhelming emotion to convey messages that logic and honesty simply don’t support, and her nagging, opportunistic persona aren’t going to get her supporters the sea change in public opinion that they want. The longer she stays close to the public stage, the less her role will be seen as an honorable one, the more opportunity she’ll have to say idiotic things, and the less anyone will end up caring about her or her son.

So, hey, from those of us to the right of that dividing line: thanks, and keep up the great work!

He may have been ignored by Trackbacks, but he won’t be ignored by me. In the Bullpen linked this post, too. Darned, evil trackbacks.