Letters to the Editor
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Cindy Sheehan
I can't imagine a more futile gesture than Cindy Sheehan running against Nancy Pelosi. If she got 20% of the primary vote I would be shocked.
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It's the general election
what if she sunk Nancy P in the fall?
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15 Minutes Are Up
Cindy Sheehan has become her own worst enemy. Her 15 minutes are up and her continued babbling are making her opponents look like they had her pegged corrrectly all along. This over-reaching is common among people who have no idea their support is mostly in their own minds.
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This is a sad story, no matter how I look at it
Sheehan wasn't the "mother" of the anti-war movement. The movement was very healthy before she joined it. She simply brought it much needed publicity. I admire her for her courage and resolution. However, I find it sad that she has turned away from the anti-war movement and taken up the anti-Bush movement. I don't think that impeaching Bush will bring the troops home. In fact, it would simply distract Americans from teh tragedy that is happening in Iraq, allowing it to go on longer. We need people to focus attention on Iraq more than ever. The only way we're going to get the troops home is by convincing enough Republicans to override a presidential veto. That's going to take a lot of public pressure.
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I hope she does run.
And I say this as someone who has been thoroughly disgusted by Sheehan (hey, her son signed up not once, but twice. Maybe she should be bitching at herself for raising an idiot).
But quite frankly, when Americans put Democrats in the majority, they were doing it for a clear reason. That reason was NOT so that Democrats could go back to Washington, sit on their hands, and kowtow to Bush. Yet that is exactly what they've done.
First they want a time limit on when the troops should be brought home. Oh, Bush doesn't like that? Okay, we'll go hide in the corner and vote the way he tells us to vote. Bullshit. They can do their jobs or they can lose their jobs. I'm sick of this status quo crap and I doubt I'm the only one.
If Nancy Pelosi is doing such a poor job that Sheehan splits the ticket and hands the seat to a Republican, so be it. It'll be exactly what Pelosi deserves (and us as well). It's not about keeping your job. It's about DOING your job, and it's high time these Dems figured that out.
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Rep. Sheehan.
Yawn. If Cindy Sheehan has any real courage of conviction, she'd go out and run in a red district against someone who has supported, praised and continues to stand by George Bush. She'd spend her time trying to convince the die-hard Bushies of the error of their man and his regime. This is now completely a stunt...unworthy of her and the sacrifice her son and she has already made.
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I'm with her
It's called representation. And Congress isn't doing it and rubs our noses in that fact on a daily basis. If it takes a sometimes shrill voice to wake up the lazy Democrats who choose to condescend to their voters, saying "We know how to do this better than you commoners" when they really mean "We're fine with the country, the two-party system, and the war the way it is," then so be it.
There's a lot of bloody hands on both sides of the aisle now.
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Why does this even get noticed?
Who really gives a damn what Sheehan does or doesn't do? A long time ago most people realized she is an attention freak with nothing to contribute. She's as relevant as last year's gossip column.
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She's gone off the rails
If you read Cindy Sheehan's announcement diary on DailyKos today, you'll see she repeats a number of Right-Wing talking points about the Dems being the party of slavery, starting all the wars of the 20th Century save the Gulf War, calls the Income Tax unconstitutional, denounces the creation of the Federal Reserve and generally outfits herself for a big old tinfoil hat.
It's sad to see someone who was so effective in taking a rogue president to task descend into this sort of madness and flummery.
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Gadfly
I sympathize with her, but she reached a point where it all started looking an awefull lot like grand-standing. She made her point in Crawford, but she helped turn it into a circus, now she just wont go away or put her efforts into some concrete usefullness. Its All Cindy, All the Time with her. She's turned it from mission into a career.
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Just what we need
An ANSWER/Venezuelan sponsored Democrat candidate in S.F. to lend the Democratic party some sorely needed credibility with the world of reality.
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I welcome it as a wake-up call to Pelosi.
Get impeachment back on the fucking table, Nancy. Sure, it sounds preposterous, but Pelosi's constituency is a lot farther left than she is.
Sheehan had the guts to stand up to the Bully Bush when very few were . . . and she kept the issue on the front burner to the extent that she could.
If a threat of a 3rd party challenge on the left gets Pelosi off her ass and doing something substnative about the illegal war in Iraq . . . then Sheehan is justified in being the squeaky wheel.
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It's very sad
But frankly, why can't she can't she count the votes? Why can't she understand that the U.S. Congress cannot run like a meeting of Citizens Against the War? Nancy Pelosi has walked into every vote with a very small majority, and with the Senate facing a much tighter vote. So the Democrats, Blue Dogs, Yellow Dogs and all, have done pretty well keeping their own coalition together and passing a budget with timelines twice. Unfortunately, Bush has vetoed it twice, and the only hope is to get a veto-proof majority. This will require Republicans to cross the aisle and vote against their president. Never an easy thing. I think there's a very good chance that this summer or this September, there will be a veto-proof majority.
It's clear, however, that there is popular support for the impeachment of Dick Cheney.
If we started now, we might just get Cheney out of office by October 2008.
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She's got my vote.
Pelosi lost my respect when she yanked impeachment off the table for reasons still not clear to me. Treason is treason whether it's George Bush, President Cheney, or Benedict Arnold, all of which sold our country to the highest bidders...