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a local perspective on the sheehan - pelosi race

You know, I've worked in San Francisco for years and Ive seen it all; I've seen every naked bike ride for cetacean sexual rights, every vegetarian street fair, ever annual "world cant wait for (fill in the blank removal of whatever non Democrat president currently running the country).

I watched them writhe in horror over the mere existence of Ronald Reagan, the nightmare years of George H.W. Bush and his illegal war in Iraq, (the one with the UN support), and I watched them cry as they put US flags on their buildings after 9/11( not because of 9/11, but because to many of them, the national expression of patriotism at a time of grief was worse that being forced to live in Hitlers Germany), and yes it has come to my attention that there is a small but determined group in San Francisco who apparently arent big fans of George W. Bush or his illegal war against Iraq(the one without UN support).

So today I awake to see that Mrs. Sheehan has decided it would be in her best interest to run as a candidate for Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat, which is, you guessed it, San Francisco( and parts of Marin...)

Pelosi...Sheehan...Pelosi...Sheehan....Pelosi...Sheehan...

It's a hell of a thing for an electorate to be put in a position to have to choose between such statesmen(er, uh stateswoman, oh I mean "stateswomyn"), such intellectual giants, such legislative drive and verve. I swoon at the idea of a real televised debate between these two. Just who will use the words "Trotskite". "Lackey", "Youre a Republican - no you are!", first? What side do you take on an issue? How can anyone see any daylight between these two?, they are more closely matched than Incan masonry.

I'm not there today, but I can bet you anything that somewhere within all that metropolitan wonder, sitting at a non corporate co-op barrista there is a group of black clad SF city workers all huddled together reading "the daily worker" and a enjoying their frothy "fair trade" java, when one will say to others "Its nice that someone is finally running against Nancy, but I think Mother Sheehan is just too "right wing" for my tastes". And you know, the others in the group will silently nod their heads in agreement, because to them the truth about that statement is self evident.

Once again, Democracy and this evil paternal culture has failed to bring them a candidate that truly represents their constituency and they will have to settle for the candidate who is the lesser of the two evils.

Posted @ July 11, 2007 08:04 AM | Current Affairs

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