Posted on 08/11/2007 3:57:38 AM PDT by Libloather
Dems hit Sheehan candidacy
A local Democratic Club has criticized the decision by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"If you continue with this threat to embarrass the speaker, it is very possible that the voters will turn against the Democratic leadership in Congress and return the Republicans to the majority," stated a letter written by J. Paton Marshall, corresponding secretary for the Robert F. Kennedy Democratic Club.
"If that happens, all investigations will cease and justice for Bush and Cheney will be impossible," the letter stated.
The club endorsed and then published the letter in its August newsletter, said John Smith, club president.
Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, announced her candidacy Thursday.
"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 on a platform of universal health care. She also wants to make college affordable and improve ethics in the legislative and executive branches.
Smith on Friday compared Sheehan's candidacy and attacks by progressives on other Democrats to a circular firing squad.
"We can't sit here and shoot at ourselves," Smith said. "We are not the obstruction. Even though (Sheehan) wants impeachment, it's not going to happen. It takes two-thirds of the Senate."
Instead of attacking other Democrats, progressives should be attacking Republicans who have blocked efforts to pull American forces out of Iraq, Smith said.
In addition, you can go to your local Democratic congressional member and ask how you can help them, Smith said.
http://www.sheehanforcongress.us/
MESSAGE TO MY FELLOW FREEPERS:
Please sign up as a FUTURE DONOR to the Cindy Sheehan Campaign.. when you register you can use MY domain name so that you don’t get any SPAM from the campaign
I WILL SUPPORT THE CINDY SHEEHAN CAMPAIGN — BECAUSE I DISAGREE WITH HER MESSAGE !! Go Cindy GO !!
OFFICAL PAGE COMING HERE SOON according to the above site
http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
Thank you
for your support!
As of 10 Aug 2007
Newsletter 149
Volunteers 39
Donors 63
Please tell your friends
to come and sign up too!
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STEP RIGHT UP, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE DOG AND PONY SHOW IS JUST BEGINNING.!!!!! (I don't know about the pony part of it, but we sure have a couple of ugly dogs going at it.)
GET YOUR POPCORN HERE, FOLKS!! AND YOU'LL FIND THE BUDWEISER OVER THERE IN THE COOLER!!!
GO, CINDY, GO!!!!!!!
Better make mine a large tub.
Very well said indeed.
There’s no wrath like that of a woman scorned. Casey scorned her, even repudiated her by joining the military.
She has never gotten over that slap in the face. She now sees all the newspaper clips on her wall and believes she is real.
Lacking money to prosecute a real campaign, she will fizzle into a footnote.
the only difference between cindy and nancy is about 200 million dollars.
Hmmmm??
Didn’t she quit the Democrat party? If so, it’s none of their business if she runs.
Which one???
The scary thing is, this district may be just nutty enough to elect her.
done...thanks for the heads up.
It’s counter productive but if you and others want to wallow in the past be my guest. For the record, I held my nose and voted for my congressman. He was whipped like a cur though. Corruption allegations did it and were in fact accurate. Still, the shift in congress was a normal off year election result for the party in the White House. Given the rate at which the Democrat party is self destructing we can look forward to a resurgence in ‘08. Look to the future, not the past.
At that would be AWESOME.. I realy mean it.. It sends a HUGE message to the DEMS -— WE will support the “moonbats” that run against them —
The FUTURE of AMERICA is in the ballance -— We need CINDY SHEEHAN to RUN !! RUN CINDY RUN !!! -— And if she is successful the fact that UNSEATS Pelosi would be an INCREDIBLE task that we could not have done without her help.. !!
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