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Joan Baez, last seen at Yasgur's farm in 1969 in Sullivan County, New York, serenaded the assembled protesters down at "Camp Casey, Texas," in what has become the modern-day left's version of Woodstock.

It's a fair bet that a lot of the protesters in Crawford these days are probably relics of the "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" culture of the sixties. As for the others that rage against President Bush, and his "stubbornness" at not seeing--for a second time--Cindy Sheehan, (who is attending to her ailing mother back home) most are present-day anti-war activists and liberal apologists who believe that they sense change in the air regarding the war in Iraq.

Frankly, the change in the air that Mrs. Sheehan and her entourage and followers may detect is more likely just a foul wind blowing across the southern border. Though the mainstream media has tried hard, the country does not necessarily approve of what Cindy Sheehan is doing, as evidenced in part by a recent Rasmussen Reports poll which had Americans viewing Cindy Sheehan as "35% Favorable to 38% Unfavorable."

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A week or so ago, that poll may have been reversed. But as time rolls on, Americans, including most families who have loved ones in Iraq, are growing uncomfortable with the "absolute moral authority" that Mrs. Sheehan has granted herself.

Americans are coming to find out just how committed Mrs. Sheehan is to stopping the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and essentially withdrawing out of the Middle East. Some of her recent and past comments have given license to many to question just who or what this vigil is about.

When Mrs. Sheehan started her vigil on August 6, nobody but the Washington press corps and Texas livestock were on hand to see. Few people in America knew of Cindy Sheehan, or of her slain son, Casey Sheehan.

No one knew that Sheehan aligned herself with such anti-war heavyweights as Code Pink-Women for Peace, United for Peace & Justice, and Veterans for Peace.

The public was repeatedly told that Cindy Sheehan was a "Gold Star Mother"; but that is essentially untrue in its intended meaning. Cindy Sheehan belongs to, and is a founding member, of Gold Star Families for Peace.

The well-known American Gold Star Mothers, Inc, was established in 1928, and it does not support what Cindy Sheehan is doing. The media have laconically or lazily failed to make a distinction between these two polar opposites, so much so, that AGSM felt compelled to post a statement on its web site that states that Cindy Sheehan "and her organization have no connection whatever with American Gold Star Mothers, Inc."

The public has become painfully aware of some of Mrs. Sheehan's decidedly political statements as well, like a recent speech she gave to the Veterans for Peace on August 5 of this year. Some of Mrs. Sheehan's more memorable applause lines were:

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