Cindy Sheehan for Congress::::::The "Spokesperson" abandons her five week retirement to hit the hustings:::::::: Sheehan is ineluctably inelectable

Cindy Sheehan emotes under the burden of being the spokesperson

for the entire anti-war movement

Cindy Sheehan told the Associated Press earlier this year that she would enter the 2008 House contest, in one of the nation’s most solidly Democratic and liberal-leaning districts, unless Speaker of the House Pelosi introduces articles of impeachment against Bush by July 23.

Guess what? The Speaker did not move to impeach the President. Therefore Sheehan is in the race, running for the San Francisco 8th District seat now occupied by Nancy Pelosi.



She even has some supporters lined up. In a recent interview with The Hill, Sheehan said she has been endorsed by actress Roseanne Barr, country star Willie Nelson and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. Sheehan also claimed that White House hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich (a/k/a "the runt") and former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) are also backing her.“Celebrities bring a certain kind of...credibility,” Sheehan said. Willie Nelson is apparently a friend of Sheehan’s and has offered to help her raise money for her campaign. “[Nelson and his wife] just have the exact correct politics and the exact compassion for the earth and humanity that I think attracts us as friends,” she said. Willie? When I bought tickets to see you this summer, I hope you realize I never intended for my hard-earned mon to go toward a misguided attempt to unseat the Speaker.

God help us. Cindy, I do have a few questions:

- have you thought about taking on actual supporters of the war?

- why attack The Speaker, who has solid anti-war credentials, but failed to cave in to your pathetic blackmail tactics?

- was your five week retirement from spokespersonship so painful that you needed to leap back in to reclaim the limelight?

- do you really think your histrionics will fly in the House of Representatives?

- do you really want to be the spoiler in this election? Are you Ralph Nader (a/k/a The Dingbat) in disguise? - don't you realize this folly will only result in hellish blowback for your cause?

- do you not realize that you are ineluctably inelectable?

Other recent articles here on Ms. Sheehan:

Matt "Sleazeball" Drudge Strikes Again

Cindy Sheehan Rides Again: She's back after five weeks of retirement

Cindy Sheehan now outside the tent, pissing in

Cindy Sheehan rides again

Cindy Sheen picks up the cudgel again

Cindy Sheehan: They’re a bunch of f***ing hypocrites!

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Cindy Sheehan Rides Again: She's back after five weeks of retirement

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I know it's not popular among my liberal pals, but I do not like Cindy Sheehan's approach. I do not believe in calling conservatives fascists. Using that word for a group of clowns like the ones Bush has assembled is off the mark. Cindy--if you want to know about Fascists, read a biography of Himmler or Goebbels or Goering.

She vehemently denies it, but Cindi's five weeks of retirement gave her a severe case of limelight fever. She's back!



Her shrill posturings do nothing to advance the cause. She mentiones over sand over how her "enemies" call her an "attention whore." I don't object to anyone seeking attention, but seeking attention AND annopinting yourself our self-appointed moral executioner. . .that's another story. To top it off, her prose sucks. Long-time reader Dogbowl seems to agree: "She wore out her welcome a long time ago. She makes us look bad now. If we want to win we can't have loopy people like that be our public face."

A taste of her rant on the Daily Kos:

It is about time us “peasants” (in the eyes of the Fascist Ruling Elite) march on DC with our “pitchforks” of righteous anger and our “torches” of truth to demand the ouster of BushCo. I have a dream of the detention centers that George has built and filled being instead filled with Orange Clad neo-cons and neo-connettes.
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Cindy Sheehan now outside the tent, pissing in

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From Jack in Newport Beach, California:

"Good riddance, attention whore," wrote Cindy Sheehan on Monday's Daily Kos blog, "I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes." Her rambling and raving screed blamed just about everyone, and ended with her "resigning" as the face of the anti-war movement. How do you resign from that post??

The last straw for Sheehan was what liberal blogs are calling the "Memorial Day Betrayal," where the Democratic-majority congress voted to continue funding the Iraq War with no real restrictions.

“There is absolutely no sane or defensible reason for you to hand Bloody King George more money to condemn more of our brave, tired, and damaged soldiers and the people of Iraq to more death and carnage,” she wrote in another diary entry on Saturday.

As she was leaving the now pretty big anti-war tent, he couldn't resist whizzing on her former peace pals: “I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.”

That seems just a little disingenuous since Sheehan helped engender plenty of factionalism herself! She had a falling out with Move on!--they were too moderate! She ended up working with Code Pink, a left-wing anti-war group.

So now the anti-war movement is eating its own. But hasn't it ever been thus? The bottom line, however, seems to be that Cindy Sheehan had no stomach for politics. She was a passionate mother who suffered a great loss. Yes, if you speak as loud, as vitriolically, and as up front publicly as she did, you are going to be attacked. They will try to marginalize you like a Michael Moore today, or a Jane Fonda in 1971. Not being as poltical as they were--or maybe they were just immune to the politics?--Sheehan just couldn't take it any longer. I don't really blame her. But then, I am not really going to miss her much either.

Previous stories on Cindy Sheehan on All This Is That:

Cindy Sheehan rides again

Cindy Sheen picks up the cudgel again

Matt "Sleazeball" Drudge Strikes Again

Sheehan arrested at President's speech

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