As most of you know, Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, has been camping for over a week now outside the President's "ranch" in Texas asking to meet with him face-to-face. "War President" Bush plans to be on vacation for the month, the longest in modern presidential history, while others in Iraq continue to die, and has thus far flat-out refused to meet with Sheehan, instead sending aides in hopes of diffusing the situation. Even if the President won't meet with her, she still has the support of the American public, right? Mostly, but not from all. While she does have overwhelming support from many people across the country, right-wing partisans are attempting to smear Sheehan, knowing the public-relations problem her demanding answers creates for the vacationing Bush. One conservative commentator oraculated that Casey Sheehan, her son, wouldn't have wanted his mother to wait for an explanation from the president - absurdly professing to have better insight into what he would've wanted than what his mother does. Right-wing websites have taken past quotes of Sheehan grossly out of context (simply ignoring quotes that contradict their claims), and tried to paint her as someone who has changed her story - even though she has not done any such thing. Conservative TV hosts have mocked her and tried to belittle other mothers who defend her.

As noted on the DNC blog, kudos should go to the folks at ABC who found footage of [kos:Supreme Court] nominee [kos:John Roberts], where he is shown answering questions on a wide range of constitutional issues. Since the White House and Roberts failed to disclose it on the questionnaire they submitted to the Senate, they clearly found it themselves. The questionnaire, agreed to by Democrats and Republicans, clearly asks nomiees to provide "all interviews you have given newspapers, magazines or other publications, or radio or television stations." Missing from the list was the 2000 interview of Roberts on a Dallas TV station.