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...famous Cindy Sheehan??€”who holds George W. Bush personally responsible for the death of her soldier son—learned this the hard way when she came to town earlier this summer to stir up her usual ruckus outside the former president’s new Dallas home. As Bush’s house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac, Sheehan couldn’t get closer than the top of the street, and the neighborhood’s expansive green lawns and wide driveways absorbed her group’s attempts at charismatic exhortation...
...fruitless and annoying as Sheehan??€™s protest may have been, there was something about it—as much as it pains me to say this—worthy of attention. This something, of course, was the neighborhood’s reaction to the influx of angry, haggard faces gathered at the mouth of Daria Place...
...Sheehan??€™s protest was an attack on that avatar. And to some residents of Preston Hollow, it was also an attack on the mythology they allowed themselves to believe for so long, which held not only that Bush was a good president—despite the media’s inaccurate and disrespectful portrayal of his administration—but also that they, the residents of Preston Hollow, were, like Bush, the kind of people who deserved to occupy positions of authority...
...ranking U.S. government officials wanted some journalists—including Sheehan??€”to be fired for their controversial coverage, he recalled...
...Sheehan??€™s extracurricular involvements as a Harvard undergraduate proved helpful in dismissing their threats...