By ANGELA K. BROWN,AP
Posted: 2007-07-08 17:51:22
CRAWFORD, Texas (July 8) - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks. Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.
"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money."
"Democrats and Americans?" It sounds like a Freudian slip to me. Is Cindy Sheehan inadvertently admitting that Democrats and Americans are not necessarily one and the same? Sure seems that way.
By the way, wasn't it less than two months ago that the War Mother announced she was going to stay away from the lights, cameras and microphones in order to spend more time with her family? Was she not hurt by the vicious attacks of the right as well as the left? Was she not turning her back on the anti-war movement "forever?" The awful, sad truth is that Cindy Sheehan's life has no meaning outside the anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-America movement. She will not find peace for as long as she chooses to engage hateful activities such as her caravan to Washington, D.C.
I hope, for her sake, that Mother Sheehan does not run against Pelosi. If she does, she will know what real hurt is.
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