Although there is no excuse for feuding with a Gold Star family like Trump is doing with Khizr Khan, Democrats might do well to remember the vicious treatment many in the party gave to Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq, after Bush left office and Obama took charge. Maddeningly true to her principles, Sheehan kept right on protesting the wars. Suddenly the anti-wear hero became to some Democrats an „attention whore.“