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Tragedy At Balloon Juice

by John Cole|  February 10, 200612:17 pm| 50 Comments

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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.

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  1. 1.

    jg

    February 10, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    Seek help.

  2. 2.

    Bob In Pacifica

    February 10, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    But WB is going to pick up the option for the Galloway Show.

  3. 3.

    Stormy70

    February 10, 2006 at 1:14 pm

    Dang it! I, too share your pain, John.

    Here’s some good news: Underworld Evolution rocked. Vampires, Werewolves, guns. Oh my!

  4. 4.

    The Other Steve

    February 10, 2006 at 1:20 pm

    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!

  5. 5.

    Don Surber

    February 10, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    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 …

  6. 6.

    Don Surber

    February 10, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    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 …

  7. 7.

    Steve

    February 10, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    There’s something to be said for Kate Blanchett in a rubber suit

    That would be an interesting movie, to be sure, but I don’t think it’s the movie you saw.

  8. 8.

    Davebo

    February 10, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    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.

  9. 9.

    jaime

    February 10, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    I see you’re back on Sheehan since your liberal baiting fake John Bolton Nobel nomination story tanked.

  10. 10.

    Sean P

    February 10, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    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).

  11. 11.

    neil

    February 10, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    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.

  12. 12.

    Faux News

    February 10, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    Seek help

    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.

  13. 13.

    Jay C

    February 10, 2006 at 1:36 pm

    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.

  14. 14.

    Richard Bottoms

    February 10, 2006 at 1:37 pm

    Elmohammed Says:

    Richard like-it-in-the Bottom. Yeah, but I bet you enjoy pissing in your buddy’s colon during your lefty-lovefest daisychains don’t you? You’re such a partisan moron. You know NOTHING about what soldiers need?

    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.

  15. 15.

    Faux News

    February 10, 2006 at 1:38 pm

    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.

    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.

  16. 16.

    SmilingPolitely

    February 10, 2006 at 1:39 pm

    Cate Beckinsale looks so much hotter with shorter hair. She should wear it Underworld-style permanently

  17. 17.

    The Disenfranchised Voter

    February 10, 2006 at 1:45 pm

    She’d have more luck running against Boxer. Feinstein is untouchable in California politics.

    …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.

  18. 18.

    The Disenfranchised Voter

    February 10, 2006 at 1:45 pm

    *call

  19. 19.

    Laura

    February 10, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    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

  20. 20.

    Marcus Wellby

    February 10, 2006 at 1:55 pm

    Waaaaaaaaah!!!! Cindy Sheehan say mean things about Big Daddy Bush!! Waaaaahhhhhh!

  21. 21.

    gratefulcub

    February 10, 2006 at 1:56 pm

    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

  22. 22.

    Jackmormon

    February 10, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    I’m surprised to find this in the “other” category. Time to invent a “Sheehan, Cindy” tag, John.

  23. 23.

    yet another jeff

    February 10, 2006 at 2:01 pm

    I heard she was going to run as a Republican. Too bad, the GOP needs the irony.

  24. 24.

    Jim Allen

    February 10, 2006 at 2:03 pm

    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.

  25. 25.

    The Other Steve

    February 10, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    That would be an interesting movie, to be sure, but I don’t think it’s the movie you saw.

    Crap! I meant Kate Beckinsale, not Blanchett. Damn!

  26. 26.

    Richard Bottoms

    February 10, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    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.

    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.

  27. 27.

    Jim Allen

    February 10, 2006 at 2:08 pm

    And don’t forget, Richard, that Cindy Sheehan is a whack job.

    Go Steelers!

  28. 28.

    Richard Bottoms

    February 10, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    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:

    The intelligence officials, who declined to be identified because they did not want to criticize the White House publicly, said there is deep disagreement within the intelligence community over the seriousness of the scheme to attack the 73-story building and whether it was ever much more than talk.

    Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist with the Rand Corp., said Bush’s account still leaves key questions unanswered.

    “It doesn’t really give us any more indication of whether this was a plot that was derailed or pre-empted, or a plot that was more in the realm of an idle daydream,” Hoffman said.

    http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-bush0210.artfeb10,0,3963401.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld

  29. 29.

    Lines

    February 10, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    News Flash!

    Michael Moore is still fat!

  30. 30.

    GOP4Me

    February 10, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    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.

  31. 31.

    Stormy70

    February 10, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    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?

    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.

  32. 32.

    srv

    February 10, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    I hear a Senatorial race would conflict with her Presidential campaign plans.

  33. 33.

    Lines

    February 10, 2006 at 2:17 pm

    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.

  34. 34.

    Marcus Wellby

    February 10, 2006 at 2:24 pm

    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.

    I could sit through a movie with one Cory, but I draw the line at movies with two.

  35. 35.

    Jill

    February 10, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    News Flash! GWB is still incompetent and a liar!

  36. 36.

    The Disenfranchised Voter

    February 10, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    I’m surprised to find this in the “other” category. Time to invent a “Sheehan, Cindy” tag, John.

    Heh.

  37. 37.

    Richard Bottoms

    February 10, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    Yes, you can cut off their heads. Did you not watch the greatness that was Buffy, and or Angel?!

    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.

  38. 38.

    Krista

    February 10, 2006 at 2:53 pm

    Lost Boys rocked. Fantastic movie. Despite the two Coreys.

  39. 39.

    Krista

    February 10, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    Richard Bottoms – anybody who likes Anita Blake is a friend of mine. Jean-Claude is just too great for words.

  40. 40.

    Don Surber

    February 10, 2006 at 3:01 pm

    West Virginia can get a millionaire to lose against Byrd and you pukes in NY and California — with much larger herds to cull — cannot?

  41. 41.

    Mac Buckets

    February 10, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    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.

  42. 42.

    Faux News

    February 10, 2006 at 4:20 pm

    West Virginia can get a millionaire to lose against Byrd and you pukes in NY and California—with much larger herds to cull—cannot?

    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! :-)

  43. 43.

    ppGaz

    February 10, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    get help

    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.”

  44. 44.

    Steve

    February 10, 2006 at 5:41 pm

    Yeah, and if I turned off the computer and got these TPS reports done, America would be saved!

  45. 45.

    jg

    February 10, 2006 at 5:49 pm

    Didn’t you get the memo?

    Give me your email address I’ll send you a copy.

  46. 46.

    ChristieS

    February 10, 2006 at 6:08 pm

    Krista Says:

    Richard Bottoms – anybody who likes Anita Blake is a friend of mine. Jean-Claude is just too great for words.

    Edward…it’s Edward who rules. God, I want him. LOL.

  47. 47.

    Krista

    February 10, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    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?

  48. 48.

    Richard Bottoms

    February 10, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    Richard Bottoms – anybody who likes Anita Blake is a friend of mine. Jean-Claude is just too great for words.

    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.

  49. 49.

    Richard Bottoms

    February 10, 2006 at 6:57 pm

    What about the Merry Gentry series? Thoughts?

    I think it’s getting past time for the Queen to bite the dust. It’s great gothic porn though.

  50. 50.

    Krista

    February 10, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Is there any other kind?

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