Common Sense Democracy

I’ve been following along with the Cindy Sheehan story for a few weeks now. Cindy Sheehan is the mother of a solider killed in Iraq and she is camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch waiting for a chance to speak with the President about the war and about what her son died for. She just wants to sit down and talk about it; to understand the cause and the mission. Wednesday night 1,627 vigils were held nationwide to support Cindy Sheehan and to protest the Iraq war. The events were organized by MoveOn.org.

One such event took place in Market Square, Exeter, New Hampshire. Today when I woke up, my email contained a link to the front page of The Portsmouth Herald where low-and-behold the main photograph was of my mother, sister and her two daughers carrying signs at the Exeter, NH vigil.

My mother is very passionate and outspoken about politics and appeared on the front page of the NH newspapers once before this past year when she was out sign-waving in support for Howard Dean.

You just gotta love New Hampshire politics!

Read the full story at Portsmouth Herald Local News: 140 gather in Market Square, Exeter to speak out against war.

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