"The President's gaze is averted, but the eyes of at least some of Seattle, Texas and the nation are upon her.
Cindy Sheehan sits on her lawn chair three miles from Crawford, determined to swelter in the Lone Star sun until vacationing President Bush comes out to talk to her.
She wants to ask him to stop saying we must stick with the war in Iraq in honor of soldiers like her son, Casey, who died there. She wants him to bring the troops home.
In Seattle, P-I readers, peace activists and callers to KUOW's "Weekday" program have been saying lately that another Walter Cronkite moment is what's needed to tip an already tilting nation toward demanding an immediate withdrawal.
Someone of fame and stature. Someone formerly neutral or even supportive of the invasion must speak out the way the father figure anchorman did in a watershed way during Vietnam.
But, instead of someone famous, is it crazy to think that, this time, the grieving nobody mom of a young soldier killed in Iraq a little more than a year ago could be the catalyst?"-Susan Paynter, writing in today's P-I.
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