Wonder what John Conyers has to say about all this?
Posted on 08/10/2007 5:56:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A tearful Cindy Sheehan cited her son, killed in Iraq, as her inspiration as she announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House against Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Sheehan last month said she intended to run against Pelosi, the House speaker, if the San Francisco congresswoman didn't move to impeach President Bush by July 23.
Sheehan said Thursday that Pelosi had "protected the status quo" of the corporate elite and had lost touch with people in her district, most of whom, she asserted, want American troops out of Iraq.
Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Pelosi, would not comment on Sheehan's candidacy but said the speaker has always opposed the war in Iraq and has focused on bringing troops home "safely and soon."
After her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Sheehan gained international attention by setting up camp outside the president's Texas ranch and demanding to meet with him.
On Thursday, Sheehan said her son inspired her to run against Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987.
"The country is ripe for a change," said Sheehan, who spoke at a podium with her son's photograph attached to it. "It's going to start right here and right now."
Sheehan said she would run as an independent on a platform of universal health care, making college affordable and improving ethics in the legislative and executive branches. She did not offer specifics.
The money being spent on the Iraq war should be used to help the country's shrinking middle class, she said.
Sheehan said she had no funds for a campaign but planned to immediately start raising money. She said she wouldn't accept money from corporations.
Daniel Ellsberg, the former high-level Pentagon analyst who in 1969 leaked the Pentagon Papers to Congress and the media and a Sheehan supporter, said Sheehan has a difficult task.
"At the moment, facing a well-funded, powerful incumbent without party support, the odds against Cindy appear insuperable," said Ellsberg, who was arrested twice with other protesters outside Bush's Texas ranch.
"But we plan to change that."
Many are frothing lunatics . If her campaign gathers any steam
we shall see them crawl out of the woodwork .
Get your RAID ready....
What’s the downside?
It would be too easy for even Peolsi to reduce her to shreds.
and then said..."what's the downside?"
The curious thing here...is that this district normally gets no more than 10 percent Republican (for at least 40 years). In a primary episode...with Pelosi and Cindy running against each other...the real radical left of the district might side with Cindy. The special interest players may toss more money into Pelosi’s campaign but Cindy will likely force some huge admissions out of Pelosi by the end. Would be a tough race to call.
If I thought for a minute that she had a chance of winning, I’d send her a campaign contribution. I’ll take the grief pimp over the plastic-faced Socialist.
I believe that was Kissinger.
Daniel Ellsberg?! DANIEL ELLSBERG? The original “dirty trickster”? That idiot is still alive? Gawd.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase - “Target rich environment”?!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wonder what John Conyers has to say about all this?
“Cindy Sheehan announces candidacy for House against Pelosi”
And people say politics are boring. I look forward to the debates watching these two marxists try to “out-commie” each other.
“I hate it when a monster of my own creation comes back to destroy me....”
LOL, darn them kids anyways!
LOL. That is a great line.
Sheehan vs. Pelosi. Two leftwing lightweights get it on. This development should provide considerable mirth.
You you you ... INDEX Nazi!LOL!
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She now realizes the Dems used her and dumped her when they no longer found her useful.
She’s more than a little gullible considering how long it took her to figure that one out.
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