'Peace Mom' Hurls Words At Karl Rove

One Arrested During Sheehan-Led Protest At Texas Republican Event

(AP)  Chanting "Try Rove for treason," Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters disrupted a reception before President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser Saturday.

One woman was arrested during a scuffle with police after Sheehan and the anti-war demonstrators rushed toward the closed doors and kept chanting loudly after the guests went into the dinner.

Rove was speaking to the Associated Republicans of Texas, and ticket prices started at $200. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception.

"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son," Sheehan told officers guarding the door. Sheehan's oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Police then ordered the group to leave, but some protesters had paid for rooms for the night. Those protesters went upstairs, including Sheehan.

One protester slipped inside the ballroom during the dinner but was escorted out after shouting about men and women dying, the Austin American-Statesman reported in its Sunday editions.

"Pat, did you get her check before she left?" Rove quipped to the GOP group's executive director, Pat Robbins, as the crowd of 300 laughed, the newspaper reported.

"I don't question the patriotism of our critics. Many are hardworking public servants who are doing the best they can. Some of them are people looking for a free meal," Rove said, drawing more laughs.

Earlier, wearing shorts and T-shirts while guests of the lobby reception walked past in sequined dresses and expensive suits, anti-war demonstrators carried American flags and signs, including one that read "Check your conscience." A few protesters unfurled a large banner from a sixth-floor hotel balcony that read "Rove v. Truth: No Contest. Pink slip Rove."

Those at the reception sipped their drinks and largely ignored the protesters before they started chanting. One man looked at the group and said, "Go Bush!"

Earlier Saturday, the group of more than 70 gathered at the hotel entrance, carrying a large banner that read, "Rove: Guilty of crimes against humanity."

Ann Wright, a former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in protest over the war, yelled through a bullhorn, "Karl Rove, you are a criminal!"

After about 30 minutes, Austin police made them move onto grass at the edge of the property about a block away. Dozens remained later Saturday, holding signs as cars drove by, honking their horns.

Sheehan and the group left their campsite in Crawford near Mr. Bush's ranch, where they have held vigil the past two weeks, and drove about 100 miles south to Austin.

The war protest will continue until early September, although Mr. Bush's ranch 10-day ranch vacation ended last weekend. Sheehan's 26-day protest last August drew more than 10,000 people to her campsite in ditches off the rural road leading to the ranch, but she recently bought land near downtown for the group to camp on.

[fartnocker2]

Best friend to OBL = Sheehand
Best friend to Chivetz = Sheehand
Best friend to Castro = Sheehand
Best friend to Iran = Sheehand
Only this country would allow during a war and a fight for our own lives to allow someone like that to protest . It has made her very evry rich and bosted her ego to level hard to understand.Her son joined knowing he would have to go to war.Now she has made his death all go in vain.

[ourtomorrows]

Those people have a right to attend that dinner and not to be interfered with just as people would ahve the right to attend a dinner or event featuring Ms. Sheehan without having to worry about being screeched at by someone from the other side of the spectrum.


People like Cindy Sheehan really get me. They protest against unjust wars, the erosion of citizens rights but they will be the first to trample on the rights of those who do not agree with them.
Lasty, for me, my perception of Ms. Sheehan was perhaps solidified by her a bit ago to Venezuela to meet with President Chavez. The ultimate irony--an alleged champion of civil disobedience and dissent meeting with a man who, for the last two years, has embarked on an ever expanding campaing of censorship and restrictions on those who oppose him. (Oh, and that comes not from the US press, but from opposition leaders in his own country.)

[ourtomorrows]

Cindy Sheehan continues to impress me with her clear, concise rhetoric. Insults and character assassination are so Vietnam era, it takes me right back. She has a right to make her views known and no one but she and her family know how her son would feel about what she is doing. That is there business and theirs alone.

However, I for one find her repulsive and obnoxious but then again, I find all types of aggressive protests like hers obnoxious. Under teh constitution, people have the right to make their voices heard, to march, picket, publish magazines, books, pamphlets, go on radio, tv, the web--all of that is what protects our democracy. however, people who have paid to attend a PRIVATE fundraiser or any other event have, and I know this will shock and horrify some of you, they actually have rights too, believe it or not. they have a right not to be harassed and yelled at. Just because Cindy Sheehan and her group do not agree wtih the policies that Karl Rove represents gives them NO RIGHT AT ALL to harass guests that have come to hear him speak.

[ourtomorrows]

Cindy Sheehan continues to impress me with her clear, concise rhetoric. Insults and character assassination are so Vietnam era, it takes me right back. She has a right to make her views known and no one but she and her family know how her son would feel about what she is doing. That is there business and theirs alone.

However, I for one find her repulsive and obnoxious but then again, I find all types of aggressive protests like hers obnoxious. Under teh constitution, people have the right to make their voices heard, to march, picket, publish magazines, books, pamphlets, go on radio, tv, the web--all of that is what protects our democracy. however, people who have paid to attend a PRIVATE fundraiser or any other event have, and I know this will shock and horrify some of you, they actually have rights too, believe it or not. they have a right not to be harassed and yelled at. Just because Cindy Sheehan and her group do not agree wtih the policies that Karl Rove represents gives them NO RIGHT AT ALL to harass guests that have come to hear him speak.
Those people have a right to attend that dinner and not to be interfered with just as people would ahve the right to attend a dinner or event featuring Ms. Sheehan without having to worry about being screeched at by someone from the other side of the spectrum.

[ourtomorrows]

Cindy Sheehan continues to impress me with her clear, concise rhetoric. Insults and character assassination are so Vietnam era, it takes me right back. She has a right to make her views known and no one but she and her family know how her son would feel about what she is doing. That is there business and theirs alone.

However, I for one find her repulsive and obnoxious but then again, I find all types of aggressive protests like hers obnoxious. Under teh constitution, people have the right to make their voices heard, to march, picket, publish magazines, books, pamphlets, go on radio, tv, the web--all of that is what protects our democracy. however, people who have paid to attend a PRIVATE fundraiser or any other event have, and I know this will shock and horrify some of you, they actually have rights too, believe it or not. they have a right not to be harassed and yelled at. Just because Cindy Sheehan and her group do not agree wtih the policies that Karl Rove represents gives them NO RIGHT AT ALL to harass guests that have come to hear him speak.
Those people have a right to attend that dinner and not to be interfered with just as people would ahve the right to attend a dinner or event featuring Ms. Sheehan without having to worry about being screeched at by someone from the other side of the spectrum.

[ourtomorrows]

Cindy Sheehan continues to impress me with her clear, concise rhetoric. Insults and character assassination are so Vietnam era, it takes me right back. She has a right to make her views known and no one but she and her family know how her son would feel about what she is doing. That is there business and theirs alone.

However, I for one find her repulsive and obnoxious but then again, I find all types of aggressive protests like hers obnoxious. Under teh constitution, people have the right to make their voices heard, to march, picket, publish magazines, books, pamphlets, go on radio, tv, the web--all of that is what protects our democracy. however, people who have paid to attend a PRIVATE fundraiser or any other event have, and I know this will shock and horrify some of you, they actually have rights too, believe it or not. they have a right not to be harassed and yelled at. Just because Cindy Sheehan and her group do not agree wtih the policies that Karl Rove represents gives them NO RIGHT AT ALL to harass guests that have come to hear him speak.
Those people have a right to attend that dinner and not to be interfered with just as people would ahve the right to attend a dinner or event featuring Ms. Sheehan without having to worry about being screeched at by someone from the other side of the spectrum.

[ronniehm]

Man, Casey would be pissed. Did she even get him a headstone yet?

[kathywathy-2009]

I'm sick and tired of reading and looking at cindy Sheehan,

[jarheadjeff]

Max,

Good, laughing is good. We all need to laugh more. For the record, I was raised a democrat. Voted democratic ticket from age 18 through the 2000 election when I voted for Gore and Lieberman. I was serioulsy turned off and surprised by the actions that Gore and the Democratic party took as a result of that election. Sort of like the first baseball strike...pissed me off so much, I stopped watching baseball. Haven't watch it since. And so it goes with the democratic party. I'm not a party guy anymore, I vote for the person. I voted for Bush in the last election because Kerry was the bigger liar and quite honestly, a pandering buffoon. I like Gore and I like Lieberman and would vote for them again. However, if the Dems can't come up with a winner, I'd rather have Bush..stupid as he is.

Just to keep this on track.....Sheehan, you should have spent your Son's SGLI on something constructive...like plastic surgery!!

[maxbjd]

jarheadjeff...

Im Indie....right! Sure sound like a Republican to me.

As to your point about a better plan....I thought John Kerry had one. It was spelled out on his website. Did you read it at all?

Bottom-line is that the Republicans used scare tactics to win. People like you believe they are so smart...but you are not really. In fact they count on smart ones to side with them and vote for them.

Remember "Willie Horton" the Dems were going to release thousands of them. Better keep the Republicans in charge to keep our streets safe.
Sound familiar? Better vote for Bush the Dems are soft on Terror. They will let Osama run this country and just sing and hold hands all the while.

You make me laugh Jeff....they love guys like you!