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I am a female GenXer and lifelong Democrat who originally supported Hillary but also liked Obama. As I found out more about Obama, I became increasingly disturbed by him. The media’s remarkable bias towards Obama, coupled with the rampant sexism expressed in this campaign, was the final straw. I will fight Obama’s candicacy not only as a protest to the DNC that women matter, but to fight media bias, liberal group-think, and sexism. Obama, from my research, is an insincere, corrupt man who is dangerous due to his charisma and cult-like following. I will not sit idly by and let him win a presidency based on lies and the slander of one of the most courageous, smart women in politics: Hillary Clinton.
Update: September 1, 2008 - Yes, We’re For Real
PUMA is the movement of Hillary supporters who are saying not to “unity” in the Democratic party and fighting what we believe is a coup of the party by Obama and his minions.
Months after I began this blog…after PUMA has appeared on national news and has in no small part influenced McCain’s decision to choose Saran Palin as his vice president, people on the left doubt the reality of PUMA.
My own father, who is a rabid Democrat getting most of his news from Keith Olbermann rather than doing real homework on the election, actually said to my face that PUMA was a Republican front. I said to him, “Dad, do I look like a Republican spy to you?”
I guess I can see why many male Democrats can’t wrap their brains around PUMA. As men, they don’t understand what it’s like to be a woman in this country. They have no idea the passion we women felt for Hillary, or how betrayed we felt when the nomination was stolen from her.
I see it with men I know. Most of my male friends and acquaintances on the left just don’t get it. They haven’t done their research on Obama. They are voting for him solely because he’s a Democrat and not Bush. Well, I don’t like Bush either. But I’m not so stupid or gullible to vote for a Democrat only because he’s a Democrat when I see something is rotten in Denmark. I’ve done my homework - I know Obama stole the primary nomination. And this was possible in no small part due to the sexism against Hillary.
It’s further evidence of latent sexism when you try to tell the men you know - whether it’s a male friend or family member - that there was indeed caucus fraud and irregularities in the Democratic primaries, and they blow you off because you are just “looney tunes” for Hillary. I’ve heard it all. The denial is astonishing. And deep underneath that, is a very real resentment and hatred of Hillary, brought upon by an insidious Obama smear campaign that made out Bill Clinton’s fantastic presidency into a failure.
So I guess it’s not surprising that these same leftist men can’t believe that PUMA is actually a real grass-roots movement of real Democrats. We not Republicans in disguise, we’re not trying to inflate our numbers, we’re a force.
But go ahead - ignore us, and pretend we don’t matter. I for one have been so deeply offended by the behavior of men on the left in this election that I am not sure if I will ever fully come back to the Democratic party ever. The likes of the guys at KOS, with their hateful misogynist rants against Hillary and now Sarah Palin, have done more to push real Democratic women (and many men) away from the party than any Republican “spy” might have done.
Accomplices in this mission are some young women who are so angry at other women and in denial about the real sexism that they face, that they continually spit in the face of PUMAs and any woman who wants to support Sarah Palin.
Good job, guys, for showing us what the left is really about: Hatred, denial, and misogyny. Thanks for driving me away from the Democratic party. I hope you are happy now.
Comments
Comment from Micki & Tony
Time: June 27, 2008, 3:36 pm
Hi,
We couldn’t agree more! Here’s a video you might appreciate - we shot it at the Count The Vote rally in DC. - “Deja Vote” reflects the views many of us share about how the DNC handled the process and the candidates. Feel free to use, it if you like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL976STVvtU
Best,
Micki & Tony
http://www.paganoparente.com
Comment from Fredda Weinberg
Time: July 3, 2008, 11:42 am
Your comment @ the NYT spoke for me. After years of care, we’re being treated as any corporate employee.
Sorry, but I’m self-employed for a reason. Thank you for speaking up.
Comment from Beethovenqueen
Time: July 4, 2008, 12:01 am
Hey, great work!
Today, the 4th of July, is Hillary money bomb day! PLEASE DONATE SOMETHING, EVERYONE!! thnx!
Also please check out my video:
PUMA: Kiss Him Goodbye, Hillary!!!
Comment from Kendall
Time: July 12, 2008, 4:23 am
Hi, I found your blog through another site, and I made a You Tube video that will interest you. It is about the Obama vote in favor of FISA. If you could please help get the word out about what this means for everyone, as the media doesn’t seem to want to cover it.
Comment from PoliticalSleuth
Time: July 15, 2008, 12:31 pm
Hi:
Can you please email me at the address above? Your site is super and I’m glad you were able to ‘bounce back’ from the Google debacle.
Comment from NobamaNetwork.com
Time: July 24, 2008, 11:38 am
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Comment from Charles Cates
Time: August 24, 2008, 4:14 pm
If Hillary had run in 2004 but Kerry still had gotten the nomination would you have voted for Bush? Will you subject this nation to another 4 years of Bush-style policies out of spite for Obama? And in hopes that the only true candidate can run in 2012 (assuming we still have a democracy then)? Why don’t you just write-in Dick Cheney instead? COMNTSMF (Cutting Off My Nose To Spite My Face) might be a better acronym for this movement but if McCain is elected because of your abandoning the Democratic party you will be forever known as PUMAs (Pushed Up My Ass!). Bill certainly believes in a cult of personality but I doubt Hillary really does. I would love for her to be the first female President of the United States but I think it’s pretty stupid (and selfish) to try to ruin any chance of a Democratic presidency until she’s the only candidate. I’m a Democrat, not a Obama-maniac but I don’t want another 4 years of right-wing disasters!
Unfortunately the ‘bust’ will happen with a Republican presidency! Boy, THAT’LL show ‘em!
Comment from hillaryorbust
Time: August 24, 2008, 5:30 pm
“Unfortunately the ‘bust’ will happen with a Republican presidency! Boy, THAT’LL show ‘em!”
Yes, that WILL show them. It will show the Democrats that they can’t spit in women’s faces and then expect to win just on the issue of choice.
More importantly: If you believe, as I do, that Obama is an illegitimate nominee who stole the primaries through gamed caucuses, then there is no other choice but to vote for McCain to protest the takeover of the Democratic party. I will not support Obama and I believe he is trying to be Bush’s third term. Or did you not bother to read my page about Obama being a neocon in disguise? Get a clue!
Comment from Norman DeArmond
Time: September 15, 2008, 2:11 pm
You have the most insightful comment whatever your name is at hillaryorbust and I could just spend forever here. I also was disaffected, as a Christian with a burden for persecuted Christians worldwide. I voted for Hillary. because independents could not vote repo. in CA. Sarah may not have my burden, but like Huckabee, i believe the Lord has a better chance of moving her to help her co-religionists in dire circumstances worldwide. Some of us Christians are not big on economy or foreign military adventures, our disaffected vote was up for grabs. At least Hillary could say she wanted Abortion rare! Obama is the abortion posterchild, I believe that was instrumental in kicking hillary out and prodeath Obama in. I think you believe it too. What if they are wrong about abortion? Wouldn’t Hillary have been a safer hedge historically, so as not to drag the dems once again into the wrong side of history quite so badly(I mean as with slavery- a part of the American black experience not in obama’s heredity)
Comment from beth barnat
Time: September 23, 2008, 9:09 pm
The comments on your recent post aren’t working. Love your blog! Found it through Free Republic.
I wanted to post this website and the song “Sarah Smile” in the middle of the page!
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