Angry in the Great White North

From Cindy Sheehan's speech to her followers in Crawford upon returning:

You know seriously this kid was just, just an amazing person and we were so shocked when he joined the Army.

Amazing because of his remarkable extrasensory capabilities:

I felt this a lot of times before when Casey was born. I looked in his eyes and it looked like he could tell what I was thinking. That’s very disarming when you have like a week old baby looking at you and you know he knows what you’re thinking.

Now, like Cindy Sheehan, I have four kids. And with each in turn, I spent time looking at them and the impression I got from each was...nothing. Nada. Zilch. Certainly nothing about them reading my thoughts. Usually I was thinking something like "Please don't burp up your dinner on my shirt", and the evidence is clear that if they could read my mind, they chose to ignore my message.

I'm recording this fact just in case in 20 years I start spouting off about how my kids could read my mind. If I do, someone will dig this up and show it to me, hopefully sooner than later, and spare me, and my kids, further embarrassment.

Oddly, Cindy Sheehan does not attribute any super-human powers to her other children. Oh well.

But back to the main point. Cindy said "we" were shocked. Does that include Carly? Casey's sister who wrote the poem "A Nation Rocked to Sleep"? Often held out as the most pro-Cindy member of the Sheehan family?

“He didn’t have to go,” said Sheehan’s 23-year-old sister, Carly. “He would do anything for anybody. He’d give you the shirt off his back. He was just a loving and caring person.”

Carly Sheehan said her brother was active in his Catholic church, spending 10 years as an altar server and serving in the youth ministry.

“That’s all he wanted to do was serve God and his country his whole life,” Carly Sheehan said. “He was a boy scout from age 6 or 7 and an Eagle Scout. It was kind of a natural progression to go into the military from that. He said he was enjoying the military because it was just like the boy scouts but they got guns.” [emphasis added]

So again we are faced with a conundrum. Just how shocked was Cindy Sheehan compared to the rest of her family? Sounds like Carly is willing to admit that Casey wanted to be in the army, and expresses no surprise that he enlisted.

Another example of historical revisionism by Cindy Sheehan? Or perhaps an indication of how far back her disconnect with the rest of the family actually stretches?

Maybe Carly can send a telepathic message to her mother telling her how she remembers things. But wait, maybe she didn't have Casey's weird powers. Hard to say, since Cindy Sheehan almost never talks about her other kids anymore.