“My only wish is that the energy we had at Camp Casey would not have been wasted. All we did is elect Democrats,” she said. “Our energy was co-opted.”
Sheehan, who in 2008 voted for Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney for president, said she is not disappointed by President Obama’s performance in office, for she never had any expectations for him in the first place.
“It’s been change in the wrong direction,” said the one-time youth minister at a Catholic church in Vacaville, California. “Many people thought that since George Bush is gone, all of our problems are gone, too. Well, he (Obama) is still sending troops to Afghanistan. He didn’t fulfill his promises in Iraq. We still have the military industrial complex and the ‘robber class’ on Wall Street that we’ve given permission to to send our children to be killed in wars.“
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