This is an absolute disaster:
Cindy Sheehan, the anti- Iraq war activist whose son was killed in the conflict there, put an end to speculation on Thursday that she would launch a long-shot bid to become a U.S. senator from California.
Sheehan, speaking in front of San Francisco City Hall, said she would not run for the office.
Damnit. Those campaign soundbites were going to be comedy GOLD, and I was really looking forward to the militant wing of the California Democrats forcing an actual debate between DiFi and Sheehan.
jg
Seek help.
Bob In Pacifica
But WB is going to pick up the option for the Galloway Show.
Stormy70
Dang it! I, too share your pain, John.
Here’s some good news: Underworld Evolution rocked. Vampires, Werewolves, guns. Oh my!
The Other Steve
Ok. Underworld Evolution thread.
There’s something to be said for Kate Blanchett in a rubber suit, definately. I give it four stars for the outfit alone.
And the story was good, definately.
What I have a problem with is, it didn’t really explain the rules. How do you kill vampyres? Apparently you can cut off their heads, which surprised me. I thought you had to drive a stake in the heart?
I don’t like movies without rules. All fantasies have rules. Highlander could only be killed if he lost his head. Achilles could only be killed if he got shot in the ankle.
We have rules for a reason people! They help us to understand what’s going to happen next in the movie!
Don Surber
We all grieve in our grief our own way. I wish people would cut her slack. I wish everyone would just stop this exploitation of her grief. The quality of mercy …
Don Surber
We all grieve in our own way. I wish people would cut her slack. I wish everyone would just stop this exploitation of her grief. The quality of mercy …
Steve
That would be an interesting movie, to be sure, but I don’t think it’s the movie you saw.
Davebo
I wonder guys.
If we pooled our resources and perhaps got a grant from Moveon.org or perhaps George Soros directly, could we rent the house of John’s next door neighbor and let Cindy move in rent free?
Then he could get his fix, ya know. in private like.
jaime
I see you’re back on Sheehan since your liberal baiting fake John Bolton Nobel nomination story tanked.
Sean P
I understand and respect everybody’s desire for the comedic value of Sheehan’s run, but as a California resident, I am extremely relieved. The California Republican party is in complete dissaray. Even though the primary is in June, nobody has even ANNOUNCED their intent to run against Feinstein. Sheehan would have had a better chance of unseating Feinstein and would have, by default, become our state’s next senator.
Then Barbra Boxer would be known as California’s sane Senator (shudder).
neil
She’d have more luck running against Boxer. Feinstein is untouchable in California politics.
Can we talk about how Andrew Sullivan is a major bigot? Bonus points if you don’t mention that he’s gay.
Faux News
Admiting you have a problem is the 1st step. There are 11 more after that.
CSA = Cindy Sheehan Anonymous
Hi, my name is John. I am a Cindy Addict.
Jay C
Uhh, Other Steve: I think the “Kate” you are referring to is Ms Beckinsale; NOT Ms. Blanchett (who is, in any case, a “Cate”, not a “Kate”).
However, I DO agree with you “she rocks” estimation – rubber suit or no.
Richard Bottoms
Oh mister Cole, I’m so dejected. There are people actually making fun of my name in a way I’ve never heard before.
Worst of all, they are implying I might be a homosexual. My God, that’s worst accusation anyone could ever make. How ever will I survive it.
Surely the cost of poking holes in Republican lies is not worth the shame of that.
**weep**
Anyway, back to Cindy Sheehan. Yes, it’s terrible not to have more chances to paint Cindy as the center of Democratic poltics. Because without her all we would have to use against the Republicans in the fall is a White House that lied about knowing the extend of devestation in New Orleans while the VP was off fly fishing, and junior was clearing brush.
Faux News
Same thing in New York state honey. The Repubs can’t find anyone to run against Hillary Clinton. They wanted some Republican Millionaire to finance his own defeat, but the gentleman was smarter than that. He declined to waste his own money just to make the NY state party not look as pathetic as it really is. As of today there is still no Republican running against Hillary.
SmilingPolitely
Cate Beckinsale looks so much hotter with shorter hair. She should wear it Underworld-style permanently
The Disenfranchised Voter
…You honestly think Sheehan would have better chance against Boxer? I think not.
Sheehan wouldn’t be able to take any Dem votes away from Boxer. At least if she ran against DiFi she would peel off the “bring em home now” crowd from her. She wouldn’t be able to do that with Boxer.
And I don’t know how to feel about Sheehan not running. I think it might have been both funny and good to watch her called DiFi a pro-war Bush supporter and thus further damaging her credibility, or if it is better that Sheehan doesn’t run and just fades away into the abyss.
Hopefully, I won’t need to read anymore posts about her, but since you’re obviously addicted to her John, I doubt that will happen.
The Disenfranchised Voter
*call
Laura
I’m glad she’s not running. As the only person on this board who’s met Cindy (I think), I prefer to judge her on how she is in person – funny and endearing. I don’t agree with everything she says, but I have nothing but sympathy as to how the loss of Casey has hurt her and impacted how she sees the world. It’s interesting that many of the people who mock her for how she honors her son’s memory are the same folks who are judging Coretta Scott Kings family and friends on how they behaved at her funeral. It’s a trip to me that some people have the arrogance to believe they know better than the family on how best to honor those they’ve lost.
Anyway, Cindy’s just a grieving mom. She doesn’t represent anybody but herself. Unfortunately, you can’t say the same thing for the Bush Administration, whose actions affect us all. This is far bigger, and more important news than anything about Cindy: Ex-CIA official: Bush administration misused Iraq intelligence
Marcus Wellby
Waaaaaaaaah!!!! Cindy Sheehan say mean things about Big Daddy Bush!! Waaaaahhhhhh!
gratefulcub
Remember middle school? The girl that some boy picked on always ended up being the one he had a crush on, he just wasn’t developed enough to show it in the appropriate way.
John, I think Cindy’s divorce is final. Grrrrrrrrrr
Jackmormon
I’m surprised to find this in the “other” category. Time to invent a “Sheehan, Cindy” tag, John.
yet another jeff
I heard she was going to run as a Republican. Too bad, the GOP needs the irony.
Jim Allen
John, I think we can all agree that the horse that is “Cindy Sheehan is a whacko” is well and truly dead. Beating it any further is a waste of your time and, frankly, getting boring. Time to admit that you’ve wrung all that you can out of it and find something else to obsess on.
The Other Steve
Crap! I meant Kate Beckinsale, not Blanchett. Damn!
Richard Bottoms
I’m sorry, I though we Democrats were doomed. You know to incompetent to run things.
Oh wait, this is all Geroge Bush’s fault along with the Republican led Senate and Congress. Cause they are like, in the majority and have controll of the Executive branch.
However will the voters punish this failure of leadership???
I’m just a whiny liberal with no guts so I have no idea.
Jim Allen
And don’t forget, Richard, that Cindy Sheehan is a whack job.
Go Steelers!
Richard Bottoms
I know you may find this hard to believe, what with Cind Sheehan’s life being so important and all, but some people actually doubt the, er.. veracity of George Bush’s account of the averted sequel to Towering Inferno:
Lines
News Flash!
Michael Moore is still fat!
GOP4Me
Don’t worry, John. I’m sure Cindy Sheehan will still be a VIP speaker at all major Democratic political events, an expansive category including pep rallies, funerals, weddings, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, SOTUs, arraignments, funerals, and deathbed testimonials.
I think we’ll still have Cindy Sheehan to kick around for quite a while yet, until the Democrats get class and a clue.
Stormy70
Yes, you can cut off their heads. Did you not watch the greatness that was Buffy, and or Angel?!
I was busy looking at Michael Corvin. I don’t know his real name, nor do I really care. Haute.
srv
I hear a Senatorial race would conflict with her Presidential campaign plans.
Lines
I’m sorry, but Lost Boys is the only expert movie on vampires, the rest of it is all just hacks trying to jump on the bandwagon.
Marcus Wellby
I could sit through a movie with one Cory, but I draw the line at movies with two.
Jill
News Flash! GWB is still incompetent and a liar!
The Disenfranchised Voter
Heh.
Richard Bottoms
Yes, I have all seven seasons on of Buffy DVD and season 5 of Angel.
But it’s Anita Blake who is still kicking ass and taking names now that Buffy has gone to that great rerun in the sky.
The fact that Rupert Murdoch gets richer still off of Buffy does make my teeth hurt though.
Krista
Lost Boys rocked. Fantastic movie. Despite the two Coreys.
Krista
Richard Bottoms – anybody who likes Anita Blake is a friend of mine. Jean-Claude is just too great for words.
Don Surber
West Virginia can get a millionaire to lose against Byrd and you pukes in NY and California — with much larger herds to cull — cannot?
Mac Buckets
John, you are clearly the only one who still cares about Cindy Sheehan. Get help. The real “Progressives” don’t give her the time of day, except maybe occasionally inviting her as a personal guest to the State of the Union address, so she can sit quietly in appropriate dress, listen seriously to what the President has to say, and maybe scream the odd “MURDERER! WORLD’S GREATEST TERRORIST! HITLER!” But those invites are cheap as old chips — I’m sure everyone got on this board got one.
Faux News
Correct. But in all fairness to them, if you are going to waste huge amounts of your own money at least do it in Vegas on gambling, booze, and whores. It’s more fun and less shameful.
I think the NY Republicans are also just too busy trying to find another Republican millionaire to run for NY Governor, spend his own money, and be promptly buried and humiliated by Democrat Eliot Spitzer in November.
There is always still time for Stormy to move to New York and take up the fight against Clinton and Spitzer! :-)
ppGaz
Seriously, when the tale of the end of America is written, and people are wondering, how could a whole country just sit by and let a bunch of crazy people run the thing into the ground like that …..
The answer won’t be James Dobson, or even Dick Cheney. It will be that good people with brains and talent sat by and twiddled their thumbs and prattled about stuff like this thread, while Rome burned.
Good people always outnumber bad people. But inaction takes them out of the game. A stupid obsession is an excuse for inaction.
“What did you do while the dumb people were ruining America, daddy?”
“I made fun of Cindy Sheehan, son. That’s what I did with my brains and talent.”
Steve
Yeah, and if I turned off the computer and got these TPS reports done, America would be saved!
jg
Didn’t you get the memo?
Give me your email address I’ll send you a copy.
ChristieS
Edward…it’s Edward who rules. God, I want him. LOL.
Krista
Edward is seriously cool. I’ve missed the last two books. Our local library doesn’t seem to have them. I might have to break down and get them anyway.
What about the Merry Gentry series? Thoughts?
Richard Bottoms
Cool. Though he’s not really my type. I’m a bit more into Ms. Blake herself.
BTW, the Buffy boards still have hope of a movie or something. I think Anita will hit the big screen long before Buffy version 3.0 does.
Now as to the Spike movie, even Marsters has said it’s now or never, cause he is starting to look every bit of his 44 years. Hell he’s only eight years younger than ASH.
Richard Bottoms
I think it’s getting past time for the Queen to bite the dust. It’s great gothic porn though.
Krista
Is there any other kind?