May 9, 2008
Cindy Sheehan Compares Ron Paul & ‘Obomba’
Rat Says: It is my opinion that voting fraud will hit a new level when Cindy runs against fake liberal, Nancy Pelosi for her Congressional seat.
Cindy Sheehan’s Campaign Site: cindyforcongress.com
The War at Home: Cindy Sheehan’s uphill battle.
By Miyoko Ohtake | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Mar 21, 2008 | Updated: 5:10 p.m. ET Mar 21, 2008Cindy Sheehan barely fits into her “campaign limo,” her sister’s blue Hyundai Tiburon. She ducks low to avoid hitting her head on the way in, and her knees are nearly at her chest when she sits, even with the seat rolled all the way back…..
………Sheehan’s battle is all uphill. After all, Pelosi was re-elected to her 11th term in 2006 with 90 percent of the vote in one of the most reliably Democratic districts in the country. In September, 56 percent of San Francisco Bay area voters approved of Pelosi’s job in Congress, according to research by the Public Policy Institute of California. But Sheehan insists she can gain traction against Pelosi by playing off San Francisco’s fierce–and often theatrical–antiwar sentiments.
In 2006, 59 percent of voters approved a ballot measure to impeach Bush and Cheney. Last year, protestors from the antiwar group Code Pink held an around-the-clock vigil outside Pelosi’s house in the city’s upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood to protest the Speaker’s failure to introduce legislation to cut war funding and bring the troops home. Even though Pelosi has said she favors a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, antiwar activists are disgusted by her failure to do more to cut off funding for the war, and Sheehan thinks she can persuade the city’s voters that Pelosi is a sellout. “She is a supporter of the status quo, the establishment and the elite,” Sheehan says….. full article: newsweek.com
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