Cindy Sheehan To Challenge Pelosi in 2008 Unless She Impeaches Bush

Makkonnen · Jul 9, 2007

Sheehan Presses Bush Impeachment Activist Tries to Force Pelosi's Hand With Threat of '08 Challenge Associated Press Monday, July 9, 2007; A04 CRAWFORD, Tex., July 8 -- Antiwar activist <a set="yes" linkindex="12" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Cindy+Sheehan?tid=informline" target="">Cindy Sheehan</a> said Sunday that she plans to run against House <a linkindex="13" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000197/" target="">Speaker Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-Calif.) unless Pelosi introduces articles of impeachment against <a linkindex="14" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline" target="">President Bush</a> in the next two weeks.Sheehan's deadline, July 23, is the same day she and her supporters are to arrive in Washington after a 13-day caravan and walking tour departing from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.Sheehan said she lives in a suburb of <a linkindex="15" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Sacramento?tid=informline" target="">Sacramento</a> but declined to disclose the city, citing safety reasons. She added that she would run against Pelosi in 2008 as an independent and "would give her a run for her money.""Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan said. "We hired them to bring an end to the war."Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said the congresswoman has said repeatedly that her focus is on ending the war in <a set="yes" linkindex="16" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Iraq?tid=informline" target="">Iraq</a>."She believes that the best way to support our troops in Iraq is to bring them home safely and soon," Daly said in an e-mail.Sheehan first came to Crawford in August 2005 during a Bush vacation, demanding to talk to the president about the Iraq war, in which her son Casey was killed in 2004. She became the face of the antiwar movement during her 26-day roadside vigil, which was joined by thousands.She cited several grounds for Bush's impeachment, saying his misdeeds include misleading the American public about the reasons for going to war.

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When Cindy Sheehan dropped out of the anti-war movement and released her statement I was sad. She had come to the same realization all those who are disillusioned by our government come to if they seriously seek truth or justice. Now she is putting fire to the asses of these scumbags who refuse to fight for the people who put them in power.

Let's see how Pelosi handles this. Pelosi is starting to remind me of the old woman senator in GI Jane.

carlitos · Jul 9, 2007

Mak, best news I've heard since this week..let's see them try to fuk with another Cindy..sorry-a$$ wimps. damn good post doc.

QueEx · Jul 9, 2007

The party's struggles with the left continue. Hard for the democratic
party to win the top spot when its diversity becomes its worst enemy.

carlitos · Jul 10, 2007

QueEx said:
The party's struggles with the left continue. Hard for the democratic
party to win the top spot when its diversity becomes its worst enemy.

Q, i believe the repub party has a bigger fight, to take back their party hijacked by neocons n religious rightwing nutcrackers..back to basics with Ron Paul..

QueEx · Jul 10, 2007

Carlitos,

I agree. Both parties struggle with their extremes. One party in-power struggling to stay there and the other party struggling to get there. The party that can attract the most of the "Middle" is the party that wins; the extremists of both parties tend to drive away the middle.

Which one will succeed in driving away the most centrists in 08 ???

QueEx

Makkonnen · Jul 10, 2007

QueEx said:
Carlitos,

I agree. Both parties struggle with their extremes. One party in-power struggling to stay there and the other party struggling to get there. The party that can attract the most of the "Middle" is the party that wins; the extremists of both parties tend to drive away the middle.

Which one will succeed in driving away the most centrists in 08 ???

QueEx

The middle between Pelosi/Hillary and Bush is not the same middle where the majority of Americans are presently standing. This goes way beyond right, left and middle too. Most republicans are disgusted by those calling themselves republicans. This is more about people presenting themselves as representing some collective of ideas but when it comes down to it they aren't about shit but the status quo.
Saying youre going to try to stop the war then not trying very hard. Saying you're a born again christian and for all this christian stuff then it comes out you just were using christians for votes. There's a new level of disillusionment present accross the board.

One thing that got me is that people really underestimate how pissed white republicans still are about Katrina, all over the US. I just read an interesting piece written by a former republican writer who is now an independent and will vote democratic in 08 and that dude was going the fuck off.
There really is no struggle for 08. There is no way the presidency and additional senate and house seats don't turn democratic. The real question is will it even make a fuckin difference. It will on the surface of course but will it really stop the war, stop the rape of our economy etc.

supergrover · Jul 10, 2007

Makkonnen said:
The middle between Pelosi/Hillary and Bush is not the same middle where the majority of Americans are presently standing. This goes way beyond right, left and middle too. Most republicans are disgusted by those calling themselves republicans. This is more about people presenting themselves as representing some collective of ideas but when it comes down to it they aren't about shit but the status quo.
Saying youre going to try to stop the war then not trying very hard. Saying you're a born again christian and for all this christian stuff then it comes out you just were using christians for votes. There's a new level of disillusionment present accross the board.

One thing that got me is that people really underestimate how pissed white republicans still are about Katrina, all over the US. I just read an interesting piece written by a former republican writer who is now an independent and will vote democratic in 08 and that dude was going the fuck off.
There really is no struggle for 08. There is no way the presidency and additional senate and house seats don't turn democratic. The real question is will it even make a fuckin difference. It will on the surface of course but will it really stop the war, stop the rape of our economy etc.

True, True. And more Republicans have turned their backs in the last few days.

I'd like to see more of an independent presence in congress, even three or four major parties. But people MUST support independents all the way. So many people talk all of this independent stuff and then vote "republicrat" on election day. :smh: