Sheehan, Chavez and a Senate seat too?

[Gypsy]

Gee wouldn't it be a shame if she had a problem with her passport and couldn't return to the US... This woman is stomping all over her son's grave IMHO, and those who gave all. There's a picture of the two of them on the linked story, I couldn't bring myself to post it here.


Chavez Backs Sheehan Plan for Bush Protest By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 1 minute ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060129/...ezuela_sheehan

CARACAS, Venezuela - Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who just announced that she is weighing a run for Senate, plans to protest again outside President Bush's Texas ranch, Venezuela's president said Sunday with Sheehan by his side.

Hugo Chavez, his arm around Sheehan's shoulders, told a group of activists that Sheehan had told him that during Holy Week, in April, "she is going to put up her tent again in front of Mr. Danger's ranch."

"She invited me to put up a tent. Maybe I'll put up my tent also," Chavez said, to applause from an audience invited to his weekly broadcast on the final day of the World Social Forum, an annual gathering of anti-war and anti-globalization activists.

Sheehan, whose 24-year-old soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, thanked Chavez for "supporting life and peace" and she was impressed by his sincerity.

"He said, 'Why don't I run for president?'" she said. "I just laughed."

Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., said Saturday that she is strongly considering challenging Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record) because the lawmaker will not support calls to immediately bring the troops home.

Sheehan, 48, said running in the Democratic primary in June would help "bring attention to all the peace candidates in the country."

Sheehan, who was visiting Venezuela for the six-day forum, told The Associated Press that she will decide whether to run after talking with her three adult children in California.

Sheehan accused Feinstein of being out of touch with Californians on the war in Iraq.

Feinstein's campaign manager, Kam Kuwata, said the senator did not support Bush and felt she had been misled by his administration. With troops committed, Feinstein believes immediate withdrawal is unworkable, he said.

"Senator Feinstein's position is, 'Let's work toward quickly turning over the defense of Iraq to Iraqis so that we can bring the troops home as soon as possible,'" Kuwata said in an interview on Saturday.

On Sunday, when Chavez passed the microphone to Sheehan on his show, she blamed Bush for the killings of innocents in Iraq.

Noting that the singer and activist Harry Belafonte recently called Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Chavez's show, Sheehan said: "I agree with him."

Chavez said his government would help protest the war in Iraq by supporting a drive to gather petitions and delivering them to the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. Chavez, who before the war in Iraq had friendly relations with Saddam Hussein, has been a frequent and strident critic of the war.

[Bravo1-3]

Let her run. It's Win-Win.

1. She runs and gets soundly beaten. She fades out in mainstream political circles. Bear in mind the DNC's practice of eating their young, she'll probably get villified in the process.

2. She runs and splits the vote. The only downside to this is that it will make her a real player in State politics.

3. She runs and wins. We get rid of Feinstein in exchange for a one issue candidate who will go on to become the most ineffective 1-term Senator since John Edwards.

[Detcord]

While removing Feinstein would be a good thing, Sheehan would just fall in line and march in lockstep with the losers in Sacramento if she were elected.

Feinstein, although a liberal, would still be more conservative than Sheehan, since after all, she is a millionaire and understands that sometimes business is indeed business.

Sheehan reminds me more of a "free love" hippie who would be most likely to hold "hug-ins," plant flowers along the freeway, and introduce legislation to ban .22's, BB guns, and slingshots...

Oh yeah, and that Chavez guy is a real POS too, both of them need to go...

[The Reaper]

That skank is being used like a Payday Special at a Bragg Boulevard E-Z finance used car sales center.

WTF does she know about Chavez and his politics except what some lib handler told her?

Her son is rolling over in his grave right now. She is working really hard to disgrace his memory and to dishonor his sacrifice.

She should already be gone, but the media loves her.

TR

[lksteve]

Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, Calif...

gee...whoda thunkit...