CRAWFORD TEXAS - Cindy Sheehan, waiting for President Bush along a lonely road leading to the Bushes' Crawford Texas ranch to protest her son's death in Iraq, was accidentally picked up by a Greyhound bus before dawn this morning and taken to St. Louis.Claud Palsgraf, the driver, didn't know who the tired lady was when he forced her aboard his bus while 600 sleepy but stunned supporters keeping a peace vigil with her stood by helplessly.
"See, she didn't want to get on at first," Palsgraf explained. "So I queried her, if you get my meaning. 'Exactly what are you waiting for?' Well, I thought she said she was waiting for the bus, so I hurried her on board. It turns out she said she was waiting for the Bush."
Upon her arrival in St. Louis, Mrs. Sheehan immediately asked an attendant, "Where do I go to get the Budweiser tour?"
When news reached Crawford that Mrs. Sheehan was touring the famous St. Louis beer plant, supporter Erin Fleming blamed White House operative Karl Rove for "dragging Cindy to some beer hall in order to discredit her." She whispered, "That's how the Republicans ruined Teddy at Chappaquiddick, you know."
Another supporter, Emil Tanaka, hoped that Mrs. Sheehan would get a shower while she's in St. Louis. "But don't quote me on that."
