It's No Accident

Cindy Sheehan was unable to make it to the Merton Center awards dinner tonight because of another personal tragedy. She was the awardee, so you figure that would have made things difficult, but it did not dampen attendance.

I'm at best tepidly in favor of her run against Nancy Pelosi, not because it would do any harm (there is no danger of an even worse warmonger winning in Pelosi's district), but because I don't think it's the sort of thing that will accomplish much. Sheehan is also targeting Pelosi specifically on the impeachment stuff, which I think is a tactical mistake. We should focus on the war itself, not to mention other issues; the very nature of impeachment proceedings does not move things politically in our favor, I think. Not that I wouldn't have voted for the pending resolution that Kucinich proposed if I were in Congress myself (ha!).

Sheehan's steadfastness as an activist has been impressive, even after the peak of her usefulness to the movement. To the extent that she's been isolated politically, it is less because of her own mistakes and more because the enemy attacked her so ferociously precisely because she was such a threat.