How ridiculous is this? This is so staged. Just like her whole campaign.
The lunatic dims are desperate for a hero.
Posted on 02/09/2006 3:13:52 PM PST by LouAvul
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the anti- Iraq war activist whose son was killed in the conflict there, put an end to speculation on Thursday that she would launch a long-shot bid to become a U.S. senator from California.
Sheehan, speaking in front of San Francisco City Hall, said she would not run for the office.
"If I thought that running for Senate would bring our young people home more quickly I would do it in a minute, but I am not convinced that that would do so," Sheehan said.
A campaign would have pitted her against California's senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who is one of the state's most popular politicians.
Although experts and polls suggest Feinstein, in office since 1992, will win reelection easily, a campaign by Sheehan would have provided her with a platform for her anti-war message.
Sheehan, 48, became a central figure in the U.S. anti-war movement last summer after she camped out outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch to call for a withdrawal of U.S. forces. Her soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Sheehan has continued to stay in the news. Last week, police arrested her at the House of Representatives shortly before Bush gave his annual State of the Union address because she was wearing a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan.
On January 29 she met Venezuela's left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, who also criticized Bush.
Bummer!
Aw shucks! I was looking forward to that.
NBC ought to sign her up. She would be the best comedy they have, including Jay Lamo.
No, it's more like Sheehan got her marching orders.
Damn. That would have been a hoot to see her make an even BIGGER ass out of herself than she already has.
She's already helped to bring 'our young people' home more quickly...by emboldening our enemy, she's undoubtedly helped MANY come home quickly...in body bags.
How ridiculous is this? This is so staged. Just like her whole campaign.
The lunatic dims are desperate for a hero.
I'm sorely disappointed. It would have been great fun to see her on the campaign trail.
She's an anti-mom mom. Can you imagine if poor Casey had lived and had to go through life knowing he is related to such a worthless mother?
Damn, I thought the idiot was totally devoid of brains!! Wait--I get it-
The hildebeast must have told her about Ft Marcie Park.
Aww dang! I would have loved to see Sheehan's campaign stump speeches with a crowd size tantamount to her book-signing.
What an ego. How does she think she is remotely qualified?
Unbelievable.
Pity. It would have been fun to watch her continue her self destruction in this kind of forum.
Proof that you can't get lucky every time...
She should enter the general election as independent.
Too bad, it would have been quite entertaining.
Cindy cuts and (not) runs again? What happened to the nation wide bus tour with Jane Fonda? I'm deeply saddened.
Dang...I was SO wanting to see the commercials of all the things that Cindy Sheehan had said. She said so many things that even her native Californians would think her loony. Feinstein would have ate her and spit her back out, then ate her again.
I was really hoping that she'd run for some third party against Feinstein, because it would cut the liberal vote in half.
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