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| Fictional President Meets with Cindy Sheehan |
| 2005-08-29 |
| EFL: Maybe fictional president can meet with fictional president if Iraq and surrender? CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- Cindy Sheehan still hasn't achieved a meeting with the president during her three-week-long war protest near his ranch, but she met a man who plays one on TV. Martin Sheen, who plays Democratic President Josiah "Jeb" Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," went to Sheehan's makeshift campsite Sunday. He is known for his peace activism. "At least you've got the acting president of the United States," Sheen said as the crowd of more than 300 people cheered. "I think you know what I do for a living, but this is what I do to stay alive." Forget your pills there, Marty? Then Sheen led anti-war demonstrators who are Roman Catholic in reciting the rosary. Awwwwwwwwwwwww... Earlier Sunday, the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke at an interfaith service at the camp, saying he was compelled to meet Sheehan. "I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation," Sharpton said. "Somebody had to bring to the doorsteps of this president the truth." Sharpton, a former Democratic presidential candidate, said he and the peace activists would protest a war they believed was wrong regardless of the president's political party. Suuuuuuuure they would, Al... During the service, several cars with pro-Bush signs drove slowly down the road by the protest campsite. Later, one man who had been walking down the street was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly shoving an anti-war demonstrator, McLennan County sheriff's deputies said. Sharpton reminded protesters that Sunday was the 42nd anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. C'mon, Al. That's Jesse's schtick. Don't be horning in on a brothers action... |
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