Some Thoughts on Cindy Sheehan

So I was at home enjoying my Saturday evening by getting caught up on a week's worth of TV, and at 10:30 PM, the home phone rang. For those of you who don't know me well, nobody calls my home phone except my parents when they're frantic about reaching me, which is usually in the case of a dire emergency. Needless to say, I had a moment of fear as I approached the ringing phone and picked it up.

Out the other end, who should it be but Cindy Sheehan, (she says you might have heard of her as the "Peace Mom." She's running for Congress. She told me, via recorded message that I should vote for her. I immediately hung up the phone, slightly enraged, and looked her up on the Internet. I found a contact email and wrote this:

From: Charlie
To: contact@cindyforcongress.org
Sent: Oct 11, 2008 10:55 PM
Subject: Really?

Hi Cindy.

You just called me from an autodialer. It's nearly 11pm on Saturday night. I was enjoying my evening, but then the phone rang. Nobody calls my home phone unless it's an emergency, so I figured I'd get up and answer it. It was the autodialer. I couldn't be more mad.

Your tactics are ridiculous, and you won't receive my vote.

Charlie Kaupp

PS - Don't add me to your mailing list.

I got this response, which actually came from a Blackberry, as identified by the automatically generated footer:

From: dede@cindyforcongress.org
Date: October 11, 2008 10:56:39 PM PDT
To: Charlie
Subject: Re: Really?
Reply-To: dede@cindyforcongress.org

We are very sorry. None of these calls were to go out until monday morning.

Dede

Now, that's nice, but as I said in my original email, "really?!"

So, after cooling down, one of the things that crossed my mind was that she's a lot like Sarah Palin in her complete lack of experience. She hasn't ever served in any kind of public office as far as I know. She is on a mission, which is notable. It's not a mission to make the world a better place or anything though. She's on the mission of a mother. Mothers will stop at nothing to ensure that their children are protected, and if something should happen to the spawn, the mother will go to great lengths for revenge. Cindy Sheehan is running for office out of revenge.

You know all those comparisons about Obama vs. McCain and Biden vs. Palin and how you should choose the team that's qualified to take on the job? Well, the same goes for every race. Don't vote for someone with zero experience to take a job they're applying for because of all the wrong reasons.