Need you ask?

I guess not all Gold Star mothers have (in Maureen Dowd's memorable words) "absolute moral authority." Apparently only the nutcases like Cindy Sheehan do, perhaps because they tell the press what they want to hear:

Julia Conover lost her son, Marine Lance Cpl. Brandon Dewey, to a suicide bomber in Iraq exactly two months ago to the day Monday. She, too, attended the Modesto funeral of Lance Cpl. Long. She’s an active member of the Gold Star families group and plans to travel to Iraq soon to visit the land she said Brandon heroically fought to liberate.

San Jose reporters spoke with her, she said, but didn’t use her comments.

“They didn’t like what I had to say,” she figured. “They said that because I had just lost my son, that I couldn’t be impartial about my feelings toward the war.”

While the pain of her son’s Jan. 20 death is still sharp, she’s convinced that there are good reasons for the war and that her son died for a noble cause. She still has a daughter in the U.S. Navy.

Yes, only Cindy Sheehan is impartial about her feelings toward the war.

Her son have a grave marker yet? Or are only mothers with absolute moral authority allowed to leave their kid alone, unknown, unremembered by anything but an apesht crazy mother allowed to sit alone, unmarked and unacknowledged? Absent ANY memorial other than the HATEFUL words of a mother who HATES everything that the poor dead guy stood for?

Absolute Moral Authority was a tool to build up the WTC Widows, and capitalized on, once there was a traitor who happened to have a patriotic son. F! the other 6K family members, only the 7 self righteous anti-bushies have absolute, ABSO-FRIGGEN-LUTE! moral authority. ABSOLUTE!??!?! what responsible press F uses that term? The PRESIDENT! has Absolute authority in the execution of a war, the president DOES! it's in the friggen CONSTI-FRIGGEN-TUTION! which I assume begins and ends in the Dowd's version with the 1st ammendment, with MANY! other unwritten clarifications.

CHRIST! the friggen press isn't just retarded, they are FUNCTIONAL retards, unfortunately their ownly function is lying about everyone else who calls them on their own failings.

An Atheist exclaiming "CHRIST" is PROOF of how ridiculous this crap is.

No one but the Almighty has absolute moral authority. I think omnipotence is a pre-requsite for the possession and weilding of the previous.

Cindy Sheehan's only absolute is she is an absolute idiot.

what responsible press F uses that term?

As far as I can tell, no one uses that phrase now except as anti-war propaganda. Google for it, and aside from Maureen Dowd's original op ed, everyone else (at least of the first few pages) is slamming the anti-war side, Democrats, etc, or while criticizing Dowd's op ed. My point here is get upset over what the press does, not what you think it does.