are we playing into the hands of these felons by focussing

[DrDan]

all of our attention right now on the Sheehan protest?

In doing so, attention is being diverted from these obscene oil increases. junior's appearance of a stubborn, obstinate chickenhawk fuels this fire.

$22 a barrel on inauguration day - THREE TIMES THAT AMOUNT TODAY!!!!!!!

and who will reap these profits when they begin to drill in Anwar!

Are they getting exactly what they want with a minimum of protests because we are ignoring the bigger picture??????

Not only are we potentially mis-focussed, but the reich-wingers are stubbornly digging in also - and ignoring the big-time screwing they are getting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. nah talk of a national strike may be in tihe wings

many things are coalesing right now

[CityZen-X]

2. Anwar Crude...

costs twice as much to refine into gasoline, and what I understand China is already in line to be the number one purchaser of Anwar crude.

[ewagner]

3. Don't think so

Actually I think the Cindy Sheehan story is preventing them from spinning something else.... the only thing that will take Cindy out of the headlines is PLAME INDICTMENTS.

[DrDan]

4. but it seems to me that if junior does meet with Sheehan

then that will take the focus elsewhere - perhaps gas prices

what is faux focussing on - Natalee and Cindy -

gas prices are now over $3.00 a gallon and headed higher - air travel just increased today - utilities are increasing 16% where I live - food is next

and the only real protest is a few truckers in Florida - everyone else is focussed elsewhere

[JDPriestly]

5. We aren't ignoring the gas prices.

From the Swift-Boaters to the DSMs to Rove to Sheehan, it's all about one thing: Republican corruption. Oil prices are just one of the ways in which Republicans are impoverishing America. The Iraq war is another: it is just an excuse to transfer money from our paychecks to the bank accounts of Bush and Cheney's friends, e.g., Halliburton. Cindy Sheehan's first question places the spotlight on the corruption. What "noble cause" did Casey Sheehan die for? There is no "noble cause." There never was. The before-all and end-all to this war and everything else the Bush administration does is greed, greed, greed.

To get that message out to the American people, we have to tell stories that are compelling, stories so compelling that they jar the corporate media to retell them. Some Americans will get the message when they read the DSMs. To some, the whole thing will click when they ask themselves why Rove would have outed Plame? For many, many, it's going to be Cindy's heartwrenching story.

Once one of these stories triggers suspicion of the Bush administration in the brains of Americans, they will begin to think about gas prices, unemployment, housing costs, outsourcing and all the other manifestations of Republican corruption that are impoverishing our nation. It's all one story. We are all on the same side. We are all getting the truth out there.

Don't worry, the gas prices are not being ignored. Sooner or later, the real story behind the gas prices will emerge, not as a theory spun by some "left-winger" out there, but as a fact, a memo, a phone conversation, some evidence that reveals the collusion and manipulation behind the gas prices and the refusal of our government to give us a rational energy policy. Look for evidence, look for facts, look for stories. Theories, however, reasonable, do not change peoples' hearts and minds. Pictures, stories, emotions, those are the things that stir peoples' imaginations and move them to change and action.

[Generic Other]

6. Fires starting everywhere

Do what you can to put some out!!

:)

[OneBlueSky]

7. good point . . . but there's something more important at work here . . .

Cindy is making people THINK! . . . people who have managed to go the last four or more years avoiding engaging the world around them . . .

once they start thinking, it won't only be about the war . . . it will be about why we're there, and all the related issues . . . and about BushCo and what they're doing to the country . . .

Cindy Sheehan is awakening the proverbial "American giant" -- in this case, the American people . . .

so good on her! . . .