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Cindy Sheehan Makes Bid for Pelosi’s House Seat

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Posted on Apr 25, 2008
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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.


SFGate.com:

The 50-year-old Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed while serving in Iraq in 2004, became the public face of the anti-war movement when she mounted a demonstration outside President Bush’s Texas ranch that lasted from 2005 to 2007.

Even after pleading exhaustion and closing down “Camp Casey” last May, Sheehan was a regular speaker at anti-war gatherings across the nation. Since moving from Dixon to San Francisco’s Mission District, she’s been campaigning virtually full time.

To get the signatures, equal to 3 percent of the district voters registered for the 2006 general election, the campaign will have people setting up ironing boards and card tables on street corners throughout the city, seeking voters who want an alternative to Pelosi. Sheehan has until Aug. 8 to collect the needed signatures.

Getting on the ballot will be the easy part for Sheehan. If she becomes a recognized candidate, she’ll be challenging one of the best-known and most powerful Democrats in the country in Pelosi, a 10-term incumbent who routinely collects around 80 percent of the vote in the San Francisco-only district.

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By James, April 30 at 10:21 am #
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Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, all stinking war criminals.
Pelosi and the rest of the Demopublicans are all whores, paid to sacrifice young innocent/ignorant Americans’ lives for the “good” of racist apartheid Israel.
Voters don’t set the agenda - lobbyists do.
God will destroy those who destroy the lives of the innocent.

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By Douglas Chalmers, May 3 at 11:58 pm #
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Re: God will destroy those

No, actually we have to sort things out for ourselves........ its called “self-determination”, uhh.

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By Leefeller, April 28 at 4:52 am #
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A good cry

Well Marshall, you stated your self quite well, your support of war makes sense to you. 

We know people who support war can usually be quite wealthy maybe they made their money selling arms, or even have lucrative uncompleted contracts in Iraq.  We also know and equate wealth with intelligence for they like to call the shots to protect their wealth, War is money, even a turnip knows this and to loose her son to the likes of fear and war mongers for no other reason than to make money makes sense to you does it.

Yes peace is only for the left, and the likes of code pink and women who cry a river every time they loose a son or daughter in a senseless war. Especially when they are sent to a war by people who make very sure they never had to be in one.

Interesting how the all so self-proclaimed smart elite, are able to get the turnips to do things against turnip self-interest, by doing simple things like sticking a flag pin up their ass.  Until death becomes a reality and forces changes in the turnips feelings to equate the war of lies and see the stark reality of hidden truths.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 29 at 2:21 am #
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Re: A good cry.... will change NOTHING!!!

GrammaConcept: ”Peace work is my work, Mr. Giacobbe, not judging, damning, or projecting suffering.....  he accidentally cut off the entire first joint of his right hand index finger...”

Well, the only way to stop the Robert Giacobbes of the world is to cut their dicks off, GrammaConcept, possibly at the shoulders, uhh.

His “Let him be a man, for god’s sake – let him offer his service to this country that’s given him a life of liberty and freedom...” is the only miserable excuse men like that can offer as they themselves are so totally and absolutely in denial of their own fuckwit status as mindless spear carriers in whose ever army happens to be on the march - and preferably the winners.

Theri constant refusal to accept the possibility of their OWN spirituality (never mind anyone else’s) is perennially worked around by diligently shouting and screaming their carefully formatted abuse and hypocritical righteousness. Thus the walking, talking, raving ego monsters that they really are vomiting their savagery and animalistic howling upon the more civilized!

These were historically the kind of people Niccolo Machiavelli and his ilk relied upon to make their ineptly crude statescraft work. They are so completely up themselves that they have no concept of the fact that they are willingly led by psychopaths and, currently, educated morons. Just put them in a uniform and away they go.......

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By GrammaConcept, April 28 at 8:10 am #
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Re: A good cry...and a story..

Early one morning in 1983, I woke up crying..
This was the morning of the 18th birthday of my only son…
my firstborn..
At that actual moment I realized,
witht the full force of enlightenment,
that my beloved, capable, talented, sturdy, strong, honorable,
and morally upright son,
who had been taught and shown
for all of those 18 years,
that reverence for life and kindness,
in thought, word, or deed,
are the core of civilized, productive,and meaningful living,
could now, at any time, by the will or whim of the ‘state’,
be kidnapped and meticulously trained to use all of his gifts,
toward becoming a murderer…

Fortunately, a couple of years later, he accidentally cut off the entire first joint of his right hand index finger...the ‘trigger’ finger.......
We celebrated…
Can you imagine?

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By GrammaConcept, April 28 at 9:24 pm #
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Re: Mr. Giacobbe

I do understand and honestly can hear your extreme distress…
Of course, you really know nothing about me past the words in this and a few other posts in this very public forum…

The simple truth is that I am a woman who holds peace on earth as a most high Ideal, and therefore, this is what I choose to promote and to work for...with my freedom, in this country which I also love, with my rights...to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..
Working toward this Ideal is, in your own words, how I choose to “work to improve our future”.....My choice, after all..

Peace work is my work, Mr. Giacobbe, not judging, damning, or projecting suffering onto those who believe me crazy, or onto those who prefer to live by the sword..
There are many great souls in human history who have spoken of love for the enemy, of blessing those who curse you, of non-violence as a most worthy way of life which can, and indeed has, also lead to the sacrifice and loss of lives..

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote:

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s liife sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

This work of mine has really nothing to do with politics…
I, too, have a dream......for me....God Is Love and war is hell.....and so,
I strive on..

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By Fadel Abdallah, April 28 at 5:25 pm #
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Re: Re: A good cry...and a story..

GrammaConcept, I was really moved by your family story. You must be a very noble family, rarely to be found nowadays. I think this story should be published in a booklet form and distributed and read to children in schools and at homes.

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By Non Credo, April 28 at 11:24 am #
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Re: Re: A good cry...and a story..

That is a monumentally beautiful post, Gramma.

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By Marshall, April 28 at 12:29 am #
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You Go Girl!

God bless you Cindy.  You’ve managed to become the darling of the radical left with only the I.Q. of a turnip.  You won that position on the strategy of a good cry, and you’ve shown that the world’s problems will be solved by simply firing America’s President.  Oh and the Speaker of the House too.  How simple!  I hope you get that Senate seat.  America desperately needs a pacifist in there who’ll immediately disband the military and turn this country over to Code Pink.  Because the left knows that the way to stop crime is to get rid of the police!

Good luck girl!!!

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By PatrickHenry, April 28 at 12:39 pm #
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I.Q. of a turnip?

Aside from giving intelligence tests to vegetables, and calling Bush “America’s President”, you indicate Sheehan is running for speaker of the house and a senate seat too.  You sum it up with Sheehan disbanding the military and police.

Do you work for Fox news?  You could.

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By Marshall, April 30 at 12:29 am #
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Re: I.Q. of a turnip?

“you indicate Sheehan is running for speaker of the house”

Nope.  I said “Senate Seat”, not speaker of the house.

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By Conservative Yankee, April 28 at 4:48 am #
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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…

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By Marshall, April 30 at 12:34 am #
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Re: Sean Bell??

Thanks for noticing that I borrowed that line. grin

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By shanenol, April 27 at 11:45 pm #
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Ms. Sheehan has exhibited that she is an emotional and strong-willed woman through past anti-war demonstrations. However, she has no prior political experience and I believe her quest to take Pelosi’s seat in the house is wishful thinking. Furthermore, Sheehan’s emotions can often cloud her decision-making. I would declare her a radical left-winger and she is quick to point the finger at the right and President Bush but does not offer any solutions her self which would be necessary if she took over Pelosi’s role in the house. I’m not advocating the Bush administration or the war in Iraq, nor am I downplaying the contributions Ms. Sheehan has made in the anti-war movement, I am stating that Ms. Sheehan should continue her work as an activist and allow the experienced Pelosi to do her job.

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By Kim, April 27 at 7:57 pm #
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Check out the Voting Machines

She won’t have a chance if voters are voting on the paperless, hackable, electronic voting machines made in Israel.

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By PatrickHenry, April 27 at 5:06 pm #
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True democracy in action

Ever so often someone comes along, driven by events which create a cause by which his or her celebrity becomes known.  By putting her own ass on the line in numerous protests around the country, Sheehan has shown she “walks the walk” and is deserving of public office.  I pray the good folk of San Francisco see it the same way.

Ghandi, Mandela, King were a few who preceded Sheehan down the peaceful path of nonviolent protest and she has kept it going, refusing to fade away.

Pelosi, another Lieberman type, dyed in the wool republican needs to go along with the majority of AIPAC loving incumbents.

It is the only way short of a violent revolution that we let our entrenched representatives know they have made the wrong choice.

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By GrammaConcept, April 27 at 6:12 pm #
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Re: True democracy in action

Here! Here!

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By Potassium, April 27 at 3:51 pm #
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GO BABE GO! WAY TO GO!

GO BABE GO!  WAY TO GO!

GO BABE GO!  WAY TO GO!

GO BABE GO!  WAY TO GO!

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By boggs, April 27 at 11:46 am #
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Run Cindy Run!

There are so many of us who feel like Pelosi has been in collusion with the neo-cons to give Bush everything he wanted. There was no fight from Pelosi, ever.
A few times she gave us false hopes, hoping that we would mistake it for loyalty but I think she forgets that some of us are literate.
Pelosi should consider taking up residence at the Bush ranch where she can continue to kiss Bush *ss.

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By new raider, April 27 at 11:07 am #
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GO CINDY!!!!!

Oh that I lived in “Frisco”

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By Kat, April 27 at 9:57 am #
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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.

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By John Taylor, April 27 at 9:14 am #
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Pelosi personifies

Nancy 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.

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By Conservative Yankee, April 27 at 8:48 am #
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Hell No!

Ho Ho Ho Che Minh
The NLF is going to win!

OOPS, sorry, wrong war, I wasn’t paying attention.

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By GrammaConcept, April 27 at 6:24 pm #
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Re: Hell No!

How about a nap?

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 28 at 6:27 am #
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Re: Re: Hell No!

Napalm? In the morning....???

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By LibertyWatch, April 27 at 7:34 am #
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Good Luck Cindy! I Hope you win!

Pelosi lacks the courage to lead and challenge the established warmongers! Cindy does not have that fear and has a real grudge to settle with those who got her son killed for oil profiteers! We should try to help Cindy however it is possible for you, as individuals, within our own situations.

The next that has to go is Reid. If the old guard are cowards, then young, hungry lions, must be placed into their positions of power! Fight for change with change of leadership and support of the team!

Save America from the Republicans!

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By Jerry, April 27 at 9:19 am #
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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.
He bring all these Mayan, year of 2012, bible artifacts, cuneiform translation, bible stories, and so on to compare the bible and the cuneiforms which are in Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Libia. The cuneiform predates the bible and is where the bible story came from.

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

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By Expat, April 27 at 7:07 am #
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Hell, if Pelosi had the ovaries........

^ to stand up and impeach Bush, Cindy wouldn’t have a tit to stand on; but as the worm turns Cindy does have the ovaries to go against Bush/Cheney; so give her the creds to be credible; vote for her!

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By Leefeller, April 27 at 6:52 am #
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Pelosi needs to go

Impeachment is not an option Pelosi, has lost my vote, give the money to Bush Polosi has handled the Iraq war with attention to detail, for Bush.

As our nation smolders and burns Pelosi has done little to support the people, like Hillary she has helped the chicken hawks get their prey.

Why is political pandering and back peddling business as usual? Pelosi has done a great job of both.  When we elected the new dems into congress nothing has changed.  Pelosi is a toothless politician who has shown lack of leadership for the people.  Anytime a politician gets to stay in office as long as Pelosi, they have something called experience.  Experience to pander to the wealthy, special interests. 

Vote the bums out!

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By tyler, April 27 at 1:26 pm #
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Re: Pelosi needs to go

agreed.  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’.

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By Non Credo, April 27 at 7:14 am #
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Re: Pelosi needs to go

Hear! Hear!

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By farang, April 27 at 6:27 am #
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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.

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By Judy Farrar, April 27 at 3:50 am #
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It worked for John Kerry

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By Alex, April 26 at 8:27 pm #
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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.

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By Non Credo, April 27 at 5:16 am #
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Re:

... and smear, smear, smear.

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By heavyrunner, April 26 at 7:26 pm #
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Good luck Cindy.  I think you have a chance of winning.  I have read many times that Pelosi only won the Democratic primary in her district because Republicans crossed over to vote for her because a true progressive was running for the Democratic nomination in her district which is one of the most progressive in the U.S.

The U.S. was defeated in Viet Nam for the same reason Portugal lost Brazil and France lost Algeria.  Colonialism is based upon false ideas.  The people of poorer countries are just as smart and dedicated to their homes as the people in the colonizing country.  Colonialism just doesn’t work, and oppressed people can get enough AK47s and other weapons to drive out the colonizers and that is what will always happen.

There are no isolated populations any more like the Native Americans were that can be decimated with blankets infected with smallpox, although the rubbish around the anthrax attacks and the attempt to vaccinate the U.S. population against smallpox could well have been related to some demented PNAC ideas.

The U.S. imperialists were defeated in Viet Nam because their goals and strategies were no good.

They will fail in Iraq too.  It’s only a matter of time.

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By Ken Boettger, April 26 at 7:25 pm #
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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
Ellensburg, WA

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By TruthSeeker, April 26 at 6:38 pm #
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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.

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By Fadel Abdallah, April 27 at 6:21 am #
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Re:

You and your way of thinking are classical examples why America is in a state of moral decay. Ignorant people like you would rather have evil Bush or a similar successor rule us for ever, and you’re complaining about Chavez. Do you know that your words made me like throwing up!

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By Mister Jimmy, April 27 at 4:16 am #
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Re: qualified

Chavez, 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!

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By Non Credo, April 27 at 4:04 am #
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Truthseeker writes, “...she’ll naively go and meet with this evil dictator.”

Oh gee, too bad for Truthseeker. She might not automatically refuse to talk to anyone whose country Israel wants us to destroy.

Gosh, that would be terrible!

Why, if she gets into Congress, we might not be able to continue the War for Greater Israel by incinerating Iran and Syria!

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By Allen Wood, April 26 at 6:24 pm #
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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.

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By TDoff, April 26 at 4:41 pm #
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Someone should take Pelosi’s seat......................
and kick it all the way down the f**king block into San Francisco bay.

What an ineffective, inept, incompetent cog in the ‘business as usual’ D.C. wheel of bribery and mendacity she has turned out to be.

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By Johnvro, April 26 at 3:53 pm #
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What’s the matter with Americans, have they all turned into “spineless weasels” ?
How can 350 million people allow this corrupt and arrogant government to represent them.
A person like Cindy Sheehan or a Ron Paul comes along and still it seems, Americans prefer to swallow the pre-chewed and regurgitated lies of more crooked and egotistical candidates.

Too bad that not more people have the guts, strength, courage and resilience like her.
“America the Brave” my ass, more like “America the pathetic”

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By The Pied Piper, April 27 at 5:11 am #
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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.

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By Carolyn, April 26 at 3:06 pm #
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Cindy vs. Nancy

I 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.
She is a traitor and a liar
Good luck Cindy...if I lived in CA., I would give you my signature in a heartbeat!!

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By Brianna, April 26 at 1:39 pm #
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Americans will elect the same old corrupt politicians

Pelosi 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

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By calibpatriot, April 26 at 1:06 pm #
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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.

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By samosamo, April 26 at 8:45 am #
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Cindy, you have my support 100%. Time to get rid of the traitorous blue dogs.

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By Fadel Abdallah, April 26 at 8:03 am #
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Confused Aegrus! You’re a classic example of what is wrong with these sad United States of America!

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