The left made Cindy Sheehan the face of anti-war protest in this country. And they must – must – disavow her after this comment in Venezuela:

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez.

“I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling,” said Sheehan, who gained notoriety when she camped outside US President George W. Bush’s ranch last year to protest the Iraq war. She said she hoped to meet Chavez later in the week.

Does she admire Chavez’s record on human rights and civil liberties? He is a thug and a demagogue; Sheehan’s decision to praise him puts her outside the bounds of the political mainstream in the US. Eventually, the media will stop going easy on her and report just how extreme her positions are.