Cindy Sheehan bid adieu to America a scant six weeks ago.
In a long-winded Daily Kos post entitled "Good Riddance Attention Whore," Sheehan whines about how she was chewed up and spit out by the libs.
She wrote:
Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.
It’s up to you now.
To use her words, the "attention whore" changed her mind.
CRAWFORD, Texas -- Cindy Sheehan bid farewell to her former "peace camp" near President Bush's ranch and began a nearly two-week trek Tuesday toward Washington, D.C., with her sights set on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Sheehan, a Californian, officially announced that she intends to run as an independent against Pelosi in 2008 if the San Francisco congresswoman doesn't move to impeach Bush by July 23, the day she expects to reach Washington.
"I know what Californians care about," Sheehan said. "They don't care about the ruling power elite."
Sheehan first told The Associated Press on Sunday about her plans to challenge the top-ranking Democrat. She made it official Tuesday at Camp Casey, named after her 24-year-old son, whose death in Iraq first led Sheehan to set up camp in Crawford in 2005 to demand a meeting with Bush, who was on vacation at the time.
...Sheehan says Bush should be impeached because she believes he misled the public about the reasons for going to war, violated the Geneva Convention with the torture of detainees and crossed the line by commuting the prison sentence of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
After her announcement, Sheehan and about 20 anti-war protesters began their 13-day trip with a symbolic march to the edge of Crawford, where a billboard of Bush and first lady Laura Bush welcomes visitors.
This is sad.
Sheehan is a joke. Not that Pelosi isn't, but Sheehan's publicity stunts are pathetic.
Had she stayed out of the public eye for a while as she promised she maybe would have regained some credibility.
As I feared, that was not to be.
I suspect that Sheehan will follow in Barbra Streisand's footsteps and have multiple retirement tours.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4956565.html
>…Sheehan even suggested that the Bush administration would refuse a
peaceful transition after the November 2008 elections.
"This is why they have to be removed. There will not be a peaceful
transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2009," Sheehan said. "I don't want to be
an alarmist."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4956565.html
July 10, 2007, 10:47PM
Sheehan brings new campaign through Houston
By ANNE MARIE KILDAY
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan spent her 50th birthday in Houston
today, attending events aimed at ending the war in Iraq.
Sheehan joined other activists who gathered on the Montrose bridge
during the afternoon rush hour to hold signs calling for the
impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Sheehan urged about 100 Houston peace activists to join join her
13-day caravan to Washington, D.C., where she plans to formally
announce her candidacy against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Sheehan, a Californian, announced she will challenge Pelosi if the
lawmaker has not moved to impeach Bush and Cheney by July 23.
"My campaign is going to happen, because we know she is not going to
put impeachment on the table," Sheehan said.
A spokesman for Pelosi said her "focus is on winning the war in Iraq."
Sheehan said American troops should be immediately withdrawn from
Iraq.
"I have a very simple solution. Put our troops on the borders,"
Sheehan said. "Total and complete withdrawal, close the permanent
(military) bases, bring out the war profiteers."
Since announcing her conditional candidacy against Pelosi, Sheehan
said the topic of impeachment has received more publicity.
Sheehan even suggested that the Bush administration would refuse a
peaceful transition after the November 2008 elections.
"This is why they have to be removed. There will not be a peaceful
transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2009," Sheehan said. "I don't want to be
an alarmist."
In her speech at First Unitarian Universalist Church, Sheehan also
announced her new campaign, called People for Humanity, which is aimed
at ending the war, supporting veterans and sending medical supplies to
Iraqi refugees displaced by the war.
Many of the anti-war activists went to City Hall today and asked the
Houston City Council to support a resolution in favor of impeaching
Bush and Cheney.
"The actions of this administration have cost our city dearly," said
John Beatty of Houston. "Most importantly in the lives of our children
in uniform, but also by increasing the number of Iraqi sympathizers
and increasing the risk of attacks on our refinery infrastructure."
"When the National Guard is called to Iraq, the state's ability to
control floods and wildfire is compromised," said Christine Morshedi
of Tomball.
While some council members thanked the activists for exercising their
right of free speech, Councilman Michael Berry called them "terribly
rude" for wasting the council's time. The mayor has a policy of not
allowing the council to take up non-binding resolutions.
"I never ran on the basis of whether to impeach the president or not,"
said Berry, a lawyer, businessman and conservative radio talk show
host.
Berry said the speakers were "taking up the time of people who have
issues that the city can actually address."
"It's not a political circus and that's what Cindy Sheehan is about,"
Berry said.
Sheehan set up camp outside Bush's Crawford ranch in 2005 as part of
her campaign to end the war in Iraq. Two months ago, Sheehan said she
was selling "Camp Casey," named in honor of her 24-year-old son who
died in Iraq in April 2004.
In May, Sheehan said she was going home to California, after enduring
hatred and smear tactics from both the left and right.
This evening, Sheehan said she is "re-energized" by the idea of a
campaign against Pelosi and the new effort to help Iraq war veterans
and refugees.
Sheehan said she left the Democratic Party after Congress voted to
approve more funding for the way.
Chronicle reporter Carolyn Feibel and The Associated Press contributed
to this report.
anne.kilday@chron.com
Cindy Sheehan lost all credibility
when she referred to Suicidal Terrorists as "Freedom Fighters".
reb
www.lazyonebenn.blogspot.com
I sincerely believe that Sheehan is mentally unstable. People who love and care about her need to intervene.
I'm not saying that her political views are an indication of mental illness, and I'm not suggesting that people with her perspective should be locked up in institutions.
Sheehan does appear to have real problems.
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