Showboating

Almost no one, no matter what that person might do, sees himself as being bad or unreasonable. Everyone thinks of himself as being good and can justify their actions to themselves no matter how selfish, abusive, and absurd. It's always the other guy in a dispute who we think of as being the nut.

The US leadership does not want to admit it is at war to gain rights over oil production so it has to play the terrorism flypaper angle. Sure Bush should have visited the army hospital and attended a few funerals to fake compassion but he chose fundraising dinners and vacations and missed the chance to SHOWBOAT. So here comes a dead boy's mom amassing media attention and I am not surprised at the venom of the right toward Cindy Sheehan and the claim she is showboating.

Who disparaged the founder of MADD, Cindy Lightner (well there is my brother who says he belongs to DAMM - Drunks against Mad Mothers) or Adam Walsh for gaining careers out of the loss of their children. People who lose children to senseless violence sometimes get militant - notoriety and the ability to effect change is just the random toss of the media's dice.