# Didn't Cindy Sheehan quit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969 "2007-07-24T15:55:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/1 "2007-07-24T15:55:02Z")
??? I thought she gave up the movement? If so, why is she starting shit in John Conyers office today and getting arrested again? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/2 "2007-07-24T16:04:16Z")
She did quit, but then she changed her mind. She’s now planning to run for Congress against Pelosi. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/3 "2007-07-24T16:05:26Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] She did quit, but then she changed her mind. She’s now planning to run for Congress against Pelosi. [/QUOTE] You’re joking, right? -XT ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/4 "2007-07-24T16:08:13Z")
[QUOTE=xtisme] You’re joking, right? -XT [/QUOTE] I heard that this morning, too. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/5 "2007-07-24T16:09:21Z")
Gods! Well, it should give me a good morning laugh when I get time to dig it up and read through it anyway. :smack: -XT ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/6 "2007-07-24T16:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] ??? I thought she gave up the movement? If so, why is she starting shit in John Conyers office today and getting arrested again? [/QUOTE] I’ll take “because she is an attention whore” for $100, Alex. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/7 "2007-07-24T16:21:16Z")
Interesting- having a kid die in Iraq or wherever now qualifies you to run against Nancy Pelosi? Your son died in a bullshit war, it sucks, but you gotta move on. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/8 "2007-07-24T16:26:45Z")
She said she was going to run against Pelosi because she wouldn’t push for the impeachment of Bush. This isn’t without precident on this side of the pond. In the UK an ex-BBC journo [Martin Bell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bell#Independent_politician) ran again Tory Neil Hamilton who was up to his neck in sleaze allegations. He won. I doubt Sheehan would stand a chance but putting pressure on people during elections can have some meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/9 "2007-07-24T16:31:44Z")
I heard about her plans to run against Pelosi a week or two ago. From what I’ve heard, she’s mad that Pelosi isn’t going to try to impeach Bush. Never mind that they don’t have the votes to remove him, or that it would totally kill any chance of Congress actually getting something accomplished this session, or that it would make the political climate in Washington even more toxic than it already is, or that Bush has only got about a year left in office anyway. No, all that matters is that she keep screaming until heads start rolling :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/10 "2007-07-24T16:47:24Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8626905&highlight=Cindy#post8626905), posted when Cindy made her retirement announcement, I doubted she’d be able to stay out of the spotlight. [QUOTE=Duke of Rat] I think she jumped the shark when she went from anti-Iraq protester (and Bush hater) to straight Bush hater. Hurricane Katrina wasn’t really about Iraq. Casey didn’t die in Hurricane Katrina. But Cindy pulled up stakes and went to where the cameras were. That’s not to say that the attention she drew to the Katrina boondoggle was a bad thing, just that her “mission statement” was to get Bush to tell her what her son died for. I think if she would have kept her focus on Iraq instead of trying to cover all the reasons to hate Bush, her message wouldn’t have become so watered down. Bush haters are a dime a dozen, reasons to hate Bush are a dime a dozen, she should have just stuck to the anti-war movement. So to me, she eventually just came across as a Bush hater who used the death of her son as an excuse to gain a higher soapbox to bash Bush from. I realize that to many people hating Bush and hating the war are the same, and Bush fueled her hatred of him by refusing to meet with her again, but I still think her message would have been more relevent if she would have concentrated her efforts strictly on Iraq/hating Bush with regards to Iraq. I’ll be surprised if this is the last we see of her. [/QUOTE] One of the articles I read today said that Daily Kos has banned her from posting since she announced she was going to challenge Pelosi (she made this announcement a while back, it didn’t just happen today). ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/11 "2007-07-24T16:50:22Z")
I believe her stated reason for coming back was that she was incensed Bush pardoned Scooter Libby. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/12 "2007-07-24T17:01:22Z")
[QUOTE=Cowboy8467] I believe her stated reason for coming back was that she was incensed Bush pardoned Scooter Libby. [/QUOTE] No, no. It’s because it’s a day that ends in a “y”. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/13 "2007-07-24T17:28:45Z")
The poor woman. I’m sure she was devastated by the loss of her son, but she has wasted the rest of her life and accomplished nothing. Obviously, she isn’t going to win the house seat, or be taken seriously every again for the rest of her life. Most people on the left (like me) don’t even take her seriously. She’s obviously living on a different plane than the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/14 "2007-07-24T17:30:55Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] No, no. It’s because it’s a day that ends in a “y”. [/QUOTE] Touché ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/15 "2007-07-24T17:40:23Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] Most people on the left (like me) don’t even take her seriously. She’s obviously living on a different plane than the rest of us. [/QUOTE] Yeah, she’s getting a little embarrassing. Maybe not quite to the point of Christians vis-a-vis Fred Phelps, but making her way onto that road. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/16 "2007-07-24T18:02:22Z")
I’m sure Ms. Pelosi is shaking in her boots. **CynicalGabe** : Good post. I agree 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Flea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d78d45/32.png) [@Flea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flea)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/17 "2007-07-24T18:27:26Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] The poor woman. I’m sure she was devastated by the loss of her son, but she has wasted the rest of her life and accomplished nothing. Obviously, she isn’t going to win the house seat, or be taken seriously every again for the rest of her life. Most people on the left (like me) don’t even take her seriously. She’s obviously living on a different plane than the rest of us. [/QUOTE] It’s a shame, really, that there aren’t more people out there as angry as her. I think she’s right when she says that we’ve sunk into apathy. Things seem so far out of control, so unlikely to change, that we aren’t demanding they do. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/18 "2007-07-24T18:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > One of the articles I read today said that Daily Kos has banned her from posting since she announced she was going to challenge Pelosi (she made this announcement a while back, it didn’t just happen today). They banned her from posting because Kos only supports Democratic candidates. She’s going to run as an Independent. I admire her. At least she’s trying to do something instead of just sitting around complaining. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/19 "2007-07-24T18:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=Flea] It’s a shame, really, that there aren’t more people out there as angry as her. [/QUOTE] I’m totally on board with her anger. I’m not as enthusiastic about her shrill. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969/20 "2007-07-24T19:29:36Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] I’ll take “because she is an attention whore” for $100, Alex. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] Well, not all attention whores can become president. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-cindy-sheehan-quit/412969.md?page=2)