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Cindy Sheehan Makes Bid for Pelosi’s House SeatPosted on Apr 25, 2008
It’s not going to be an easy campaign, but anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has made good on her pledge to try to take over Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat this fall. Sheehan filed Friday to run for the House in Pelosi’s San Francisco district—but she has to collect over 10,000 signatures before she can make her bid official.
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By James, April 30 at 10:21 am # Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, all stinking war criminals.
By Conservative Yankee, April 28 at 4:48 am # Sean Bell??Marshall; “Because the left knows that the way to stop crime is to get rid of the police!” I must point out that Randy Weaver knows this too…
By Kim, April 27 at 7:57 pm # Check out the Voting MachinesShe won’t have a chance if voters are voting on the paperless, hackable, electronic voting machines made in Israel.
By Potassium, April 27 at 3:51 pm # GO BABE GO! WAY TO GO!GO BABE GO! WAY TO GO! GO BABE GO! WAY TO GO! GO BABE GO! WAY TO GO!
By new raider, April 27 at 11:07 am # GO CINDY!!!!!Oh that I lived in “Frisco”
By Kat, April 27 at 9:57 am # Things seem fairly simple to me. One can support and vote for people like Obama and Sheehan who offer a fresh approach to the problems of our great nation. OR ... One can support and vote for the same rotten element who have brought the US to its knees. I will take fresh over rotten anytime.
By John Taylor, April 27 at 9:14 am # Pelosi personifiesNancy is the personification of the apathy that grips this nation. She has had the courage to take on steroids in sports and pay increases for congressmen/women but lacks the intestinal fortitude to take on a no brainer like impeaching the neocon administration. Nancy is quite simply wasting oxygen.
By Conservative Yankee, April 27 at 8:48 am # Hell No!Ho Ho Ho Che Minh OOPS, sorry, wrong war, I wasn’t paying attention.
By Jerry, April 27 at 9:19 am # Re: Good Luck Cindy! I Hope you win!To Cindy, just wanted to pass the info about this war monger war. Cindy they are using the oil thing as an excuse of the battle for facts will be brought up and there are records and document to clarify this war. The year of 2012 is the question, the Mesopotamia - the beginning of civilazation is Iraq. Artifacts and bury history clue were not shared to the outside world is the real reason of this war as proof during the invasion of Iraq, there were no stopping of all artifacts being raided as shown on news camera. Reason to keep it away from the public for if the truth came out there will be a dominoe effect on religious and they need these religious to control the mass. I have done a lot of searching, as an example several books written by Zecharin Sitchin, a reknown expert in middle eastern lanuagage and bible scholar. In a point blank issues - the proof of where we came from - is being keep under cover from you, me and the mass population. And no it not crazy and I have found a lot of roads on searches and it all leads to one road. Also there other problem in congress and the senate - 90 % of the people running congress are (not to criminate) Jews and they are part of the cover up and will protect Israel and by protecting Israel they protect the real story. How do you explain about several Israeli jumping up and down with joy when 911 happen - uh! Want proof get in touch with Jeff Rense in Calif., has a station airing on am, fm, short way radio trying to tell these people the truth call RENSE. Thanks Jerry
By tyler, April 27 at 1:26 pm # Re: Pelosi needs to goagreed. pelosi has been a dud since before she even took office. she should have been gone after she took impeachment off the table. if bush is the ‘decider’, then pelosi is the ‘enabler’.
By farang, April 27 at 6:27 am # Cute, tying “moral decay” amd “feeling sorry” for those that loathe the worthless “Impeachment is off the table” Pelosi, and would simply vote for someone honest like Sheehan to replace her. No one I know thinks Obama or Cindy are “beacons of truth”. But I haven’t heard how Pelosi’s kids fared in Iraq, have you? Please enlighten us all. We damn sure know a complicit Bush-lover (Pelosi was informed of the torture used by the CIA back in 2004 and remained silent, like her complicit co-hort Jane Harman did), how’s that for “wasting time fighting among ourselves”? Take a hike with your weak, Fox-like propaganda and innuendo, we don’t need the AIPAC poster girl Nancy around to foul the House any more, capice? Is Cindy qualified? Exactly who is the first time serving as our elected officials?? I didn’t know AIPAC ran a school to qualify our representitives, please give details, or go the hell away.
By Judy Farrar, April 27 at 3:50 am # It worked for John Kerry
By Alex, April 26 at 8:27 pm # They are going to do the same thing to her that they did to Ron Paul. It’s called organized election fraud and media manipulation.
By Ken Boettger, April 26 at 7:25 pm # Give Cindy Access to the White House.If for no other reason, I think it would be incredibly awesome for Cindy to have access to the White House. Bush could not keep her out. I find that thought of her continually pursuing and putting this jack ass in his place a delightful thought. It would GREATLY empower the anti-war movement. And if California is the state it pretends to be, they should make sure she gets there. Ken Boettger
By TruthSeeker, April 26 at 6:38 pm # I feel sorry that America is in a state of moral decay. I feel equally sorry that so many are so blinded to think that Cindy or Obama are beacons of truth, let alone wisdom. Why? Just because Cindy “speaks up” about her feelings does not mean she is qualified for such a position. She would not even have the right to speak up under Chavez’s corrupt regime, but she’ll naively go and meet with this evil dictator. Obama? Nice words, good speeches, very little wisdom and a voting record that will rapidly accelerate the decline of the USA should he be elected. (Probably why he’s the first choice candidate of foreign enemies of our country.) I’m amazed that so many here seem to think that everyone in Washington is evil, that only we bloggers have all the facts on 9/11, etc., based on biased and often corrupt media reports and circulating conspiracy theories. Just like the CEO who looks only at this quarter’s profits are those who think they can judge history in the short term. A divided USA will not stand much longer. We’re wasting too much time fighting among ourselves instead of moving forward by working together on real solutions. Time is runing out.
By Mister Jimmy, April 27 at 4:16 am # Re: qualifiedChavez, unlike Bush, ( who stole the 2000 election) was legally voted in by the people of his nation. She is correct in her views about the illegal war on and occupation of Iraq. Pelosi long ago sold out to the Republicans and votes billions to keep these un-winnable wars we are fighting for Israel going. The way to stop dividing the US (as you put it) is to get rid of those going against the will of the people--Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gates and all the other war criminals with them. I thought people in San Francisco were defined as ‘liberals.’ How then has this warmonger Pelosi hung on so long out there. Cindy in November!
By Allen Wood, April 26 at 6:24 pm # Thank You Cindy for being the great American that you are, and having the courage and strength to stand up for what is right. May God Bless You and help you always.
By Johnvro, April 26 at 3:53 pm # What’s the matter with Americans, have they all turned into “spineless weasels” ? Too bad that not more people have the guts, strength, courage and resilience like her.
By The Pied Piper, April 27 at 5:11 am # Re:Americans don’t know when they are being hoodwinked. It’s sad to see the paranoid states of america under the control of the corporations and a very dangerous government that is willing to advance the consumer cause above the fundamentals that the US was historically built upon -once the beacon of freedom and human rights. Who is defending the constitution of the United States? We are all capable of manipulation on a personal level - we do it by opening our mouths and saying or doing things that will get us the desired result. How long before the US realizes that the Govt. and Media work hand in hand. Look at the trojan generals that went on the networks to provide “expert analysis”. I never thought that we would be living in such a matrix of lies - the question is if we can discern when the government has been taken over, or manipulated? Is it safe to say these things - why does the government really need a “Patriot Act” (The name is even contrived - it’s blatantly in our faces, two words that can say many things yet have the capacity to change the original rules of the game) - simple and powerful manipulation… on a grand scale.
By Carolyn, April 26 at 3:06 pm # Cindy vs. NancyI am so excited for you Cindy. I hope and pray you can kick that TRAITORS ass because she is just another liar we have been fooled by....(when will we learn they all are LIARS)? She said anything to get elected and now she has gone back on everything she said she would do.
By Brianna, April 26 at 1:39 pm # Americans will elect the same old corrupt politiciansPelosi is a closet Jew and they are millionaires. She have nothing, but contempt for ordinary non-Jewish Americans. Watch. Americans will elect the same old corrupt politicians
By calibpatriot, April 26 at 1:06 pm # Because Pelosi has deep ties with the National and Californian Democratic political machines, and also with the big money interests I don’t believe that she has a viable chance of succeeding in her run for Pelosi’s seat. I do believe, though that her voice must be heard, loud and clear. If nothing else this could put Pelosi on notice that she’d better clean up her act. I laugh whenever I hear of Pelosi being referred to as a “San Francisco liberal”. She’s not only a blue dog Democrat but, more correctly, she’s a Bush/Cheney enabler, an example being when even before she took office as speaker she gave notice that impeachments would remain “off the table” in spite of the many impeachable crimes of the Bush regime. Should she be re-elected I hope that the Democrats will look elsewhere for a Speaker. Add Your Comment |
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