Sheehan: I Announce My Candidacy Against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th.

The Democratic Party seems determined to let George Bush run amok. Many insiders claim the thinking is that the more damage Bush does to America, the more damage he will do to the Republican Party, and thus the more Democrats will get elected. In other words, Bush is the tiger, the DNC is the hunter, and we are the bait.

Needless to say, many Americans find it objectionable that the Democrats would flirt with further national destruction for partisan political gain. But what can we do about it? Here’s one potential answer.

I am lying in my hotel bed at the end of a very busy, productive, yet sad day.

About 300 people gathered today and marched the 3½ miles from the entrance of Arlington Cemetery to Congressman John Conyers’ office to demand impeachment and accountability from one of the leading figures in American politics for the last four decades.

We were so thrilled with the turnout and the energy of the group. There was great media coverage and about one dozen freepers on the opposite corner with signs such as: “Traitors go to Hell” and “Cindy Sheehan go to Hell.” Nice. I have learned that hell can be on earth and if there is anything worse than burying a child, I don’t want to know about it.

At the end of the march, Reverend Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip Hop Caucus, Ray McGovern (retired CIA analyst), and I met with Congressman John Conyers to implore him to institute impeachment proceedings against the pretenders to the White House who are destroying our democracy, making a mockery out of our rule of law and who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

This was my third meeting with Congressman Conyers about…

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