Sheehan and McCain

There was no meeting of the minds at this meeting of media whores.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Peace mom Cindy Sheehan didn't change her opposition to the war in Iraq after meeting Tuesday with one of its supporters, Sen. John McCain a Vietnam veteran whom she called "a warmonger."

Sheehan thanked McCain for meeting with her, but she came away disappointed.

"He tried to tell us what George Bush would have said," Sheehan, who protested at the president's Texas home over the summer, told reporters. "I don't believe he believes what he was telling me."

First, why does the AP keep calling Sheehan a "peace mom." Why not "anti-Semitic mom"? Why not "nutjob who thinks our troops are occupying New Orleans mom"?

Perhaps "mind reader mom" would be most appropriate. Sheehan believes that she knows what McCain REALLY believes about Iraq, and it's not what he's been saying in public.

She is starting to sound like John Edwards channeling the words of an unborn baby girl. "She speaks to you through me...I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."

Is that a power that all liberals have?

McCain, R-Ariz., also seemed disappointed in the meeting, which he said had been misrepresented as including some of his constituents. Only one person in her small delegation has ties to the state, and that person no longer lives there.

The two exchanged views about the war, and McCain described the conversation as "a rehash" of opinions already well known. He said he might not have met with Sheehan had he known none of his constituents was in the group.

So, McCain was looking for a meeting with his constituents and wasn't particularly interested in Sheehan?

I find that hard to believe. Would McCain meeting with a few of his constituents from Arizona have brought out the press? I don't think so.

If a meeting is held, and the press doesn't cover it, does McCain call it a meeting?

..."He is a warmonger, and I'm not," Sheehan said after meeting with McCain. "I believe this war is not keeping America safer."

"She's entitled to her opinion," McCain said. "We just have fundamental disagreements."

There's breaking news. Stop the presses!

...Sheehan and McCain had met once before, shortly after the funeral of her son. Sheehan said Tuesday that McCain told her then that her son's death was "like his buddies in Vietnam" and that he feared their deaths were "for nothing." McCain, however, denied he made such a statement.

I'm inclined to believe McCain on this one.

Sheehan could easily be confusing McCain with another Vietnam vet senator. Maybe John Kerry.