OBAMA SUPPORTERS ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE OPPONENTS WITH ILLEGAL INTERNET VANDALISM
Read this breaking story at the New York Times online about Obama supporters’ successful attempts to squelch political dissent and trample the civil rights of those who oppose him. Puma PAC’s Blogspot site was attacked and shut down by Obama’s supporters on June 25 through today. We are still unable to access our content or even reach anyone at Google (owner of Blogspot) to protect our site. Be sure to leave comments. Read and comment HERE.
Our Wikipedia page has been repeatedly hacked, vandalized, and deleted. This is in direct violation of Wikipedia’s policy and philosophy of shared knowledge building and the free-flow of ideas.
Once again, Senator Obama, his supporters, and the DNC leadership who endorse his candidacy are FAILING to stand up to the thuggish, illegal, and unprincipled behavior of these vandals — destructive and menacing attacks made by so-called progressive Democrats on other Democrats.
Send an email to Sen. Obama, asking him to CALL OFF HIS DOGS! Email him HERE.
THE DAILY GROWL 6/30/08
Be sure to read today’s Daily Growl and send your APPLICATION FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008 to Howard Dean. Get your Growl! HERE.
PUMA IS ONE MONTH OLD TODAY!
Feels like years doesn’t it? The justifiably famous, and famously kind, blogger SM from The Confluence is the Godmother of the Puma Movement. She is the one who coined the defiantly witty phrase “Party Unity My Ass” at The Confluence on June 1, 2008. The rest, as they say, is history in the making! Read her marvelous post about the birth of Puma HERE. Thank you SM, for your inspiration, support, and endless encouragement.
HOUND DOGS ARE BRED TO HUNT
I don’t think the Obama Movement is very happy with us today. Remember, these guys are relentless, unprincipled, and implacable. We are facing an enormous task. The trolling, the intimidation, the bullying, and the harassing IS NOT GOING TO STOP. Today in the parking lot of my local grocery store I was harassed and insulted by a condescending blowhard who had absolutely NO QUALMS about yelling at me in public when I was alone with my 7 year old. Not because he had any idea that I’m associated with Puma PAC — simply because of the Hillary Clinton bumper sticker on my goofy old minivan. No big deal, right? WRONG. It IS a big deal. Obama has lost the election already. His followers are not ready to accept that, however, and MANY of them are angry. Our greatest strength is in numbers, so PLEASE — spread the word. There is safety and strength in numbers. Talk to your friends and family about the ugly turn the Obama Movement is taking.
Harassing women in grocery store parking lots?
Deleting wikipedia pages?
Spray-painting cars?
Shutting down websites?
This must stop. Ask five friends and family members to join Puma PAC today so that we can stand up to these THUGS together. JOIN HERE.
Are you tired of coalition democracy? Do you believe that “win at any cost” should be the motto of our top candidates? Do you love it when allies attack their own? Don’t you think it’s hilarious when blanket accusations of racism against regular voters work to undermine one candidate? Were you thrilled to watch the national party disenfranchise millions of voters because they favored one candidate? Wasn’t it just GREAT when they stole 4 delegates from one senator, gave them to their pet, and then justified their decision with media exit polls? Isn’t awesome that we are now allowed to ridicule women candidates and women voters on national TV and the internet by calling them castraters, bitches, ugly, fat, old, stupid, and hormonal!?!
Do you love it when politicians use empty promises, shallow slogans, network marketing, corporate bundling, and astroturfing to create a mirage of political viability? Do you spend your nights trolling other people’s websites posting hateful insults, threats, and condescending postures masquerading as deep political insight?
Then YOU, my friend, are a HOUND DOG! Welcome to our Movement. We offer HOPE to CHANGE the Democratic Party and our nation! We will replace secret ballots with public caucuses! We will use our mighty internet skills to shut down, deface, and discredit all who dissent or oppose our Great Cause! We will offer you candidates who make you faint; who make you forget your rational thinking skills; who make you forget that decent politicians and great leaders inspire citizens with their competence, experience, and vision for ALL Americans. In place of these old, useless values, we will give you candidates who inspire with Platitude, Attitude, and Purges!
Join us in this mission. Together we CAN change the system so that it works only for the few. Together we CAN excise the old, the poor, the sick, the vulnerable, and the “different” from our Pure Movement. We will be a coalition of healthy, young, affluent, urban, and damn good-looking people who think EXACTLY LIKE YOU!
Join H.O.U.N.D. today so we can start the work of undermining democracy in America from coast to coast this summer! Are you shocked at our Audacity? Are you amazed at the scope of our Great undertaking? Do you have doubts that we can accomplish all we have set out to do? Well, worry no more my friend. YOU are the change. YOU will be part of our Great H.O.U.N.D. Movement, and to the doubters who don’t believe we can actually inflict as much damage on the nation as we intend, we have one simple answer: YES, WE CAN!
An amazing weekend and an outstanding 4th week of Puma PAC, everyone. We will be one month old on July 3rd. Wow!
Tonight’s overnight cat is a testament to who we are and what we are prepared for. We have a busy week of Action and Organizing coming up. Stay rested, focused, and positive. We ARE being heard. Soon we will be heeded.
A reminder of one of our earliest Quotes of the Day:
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Be wonderful to each other. Tomorrow is another day!
We are the voice of VOTERS, not of special interest groups, not of corporations, not of politicians. We are motivated by the factional internecine fighting and the destructive policies carried out by our inept party leadership. It is the divisive disdain for VOTERS, practiced by the leadership and egged on by the media and some politicians, that has brought the Democratic Party to the brink of ANOTHER GENERAL ELECTION LOSS and the irrelevancy of the Democratic Party altogether.
Our aim is to be the AARP of Democrats. EVERY SINGLE Democrat in America should be a member of Puma PAC. Our mission is to make sure that EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED EVERY TIME, that every good Democratic candidate gets FAIR TREATMENT by the Party, and that EVERY DEMOCRATIC VOTER matters to the Party. We are the voters. We run the party, the party does not run us. This is the United States, Howard Dean and Donna Brazile — not Cuba or North Korea, where the Party rules with an iron fist and voters fall in line. If you own a copy of the Constitution, time to drag it out of the closet where it’s been gathering dust along with your college thesis and other long-forgotten history books.
In this country, political parties are organized to represent and advocate for the values and needs of VOTERS. Somewhere along the line, you and every shallowly ambitious politician like you, forgot this. You seem to believe that our job as voters is to PROMOTE YOU and your chosen candidate to positions of immense power and fame.
We’ll come around? We’ll fall in line? We’ll rally behind YOU and YOUR CANDIDATE? You have got to be kidding, right? How about this? YOU will come around! YOU will fall in line! YOU will rally behind US — our values, our principles, and our REAL needs. You seem to have forgotten that you lead to serve. You need to remember this. You and your candidate believe that you can PANDER to LEAD; that you simply factionalize, lie to, and pander to the voters in order to “win” an election.
You are allowed to lead the party only as long as the voters want you to; only as long as we believe your leadership serves our interests, our values, our principles, and our priorities. You have failed in every capacity of leadership for which we elected and supported you. You have FAILED to keep our coalition party united. You have FAILED the democratic voters in Florida and Michigan and in caucus states where they were bullied and intimidated and disenfrachised. You have FAILED to protect and support an astoundingly competent and distinguished Democratic candidate. You have FAILED to honor the values and principles of TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans by NOT ONCE taking a stand against the sexist onslaught designed to ridicule every American woman and to undermine and handicap Senator Clinton’s candidacy.
Look around today Howard and Donna. Check out the so-called liberal media and so-called liberal blogs. Read what they are writing about us. Read how they characterize us with the ugliest, abusive, and most vile accusations and ridicule. Even today, bullying, thuggish Democrats are attacking other Democrats simply for standing up for their right to vote and to protest. This is the United States, Howard and Donna. POLITICAL DISSENT IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST AND MOST PROFOUND RIGHTS. Even today you will not stand up and support this, our most precious of rights.
Let’s take advantage of the great media coverage we’ve recently received to ADD TO THE PAC! Invite everyone you know (or don’t!) to make us the strongest, most effective voice of the voters in the Democratic Party.
Sign up FIVE NEW PUMAS this weekend!
Attending a Pride event? We have GLBT fliers and info cards!
Visiting a senior? We have a Seniors Flier!
Spanish speaking community? We have Spanish Fliers & letterhead!
BBQ? Pool Party? Happy Hour? Beach? Grab our info cards!
Don’t forget to BRAG!
Be sure to post the your completed action items here!
Good morning Pumas, today is a new day! If you’ve spent any time reading comments by Obama Movement supporters (brave soul!) on other sites, then you are familiar with the Bravery, the Principled Dignity, the Selflessness, and the STELLAR Grammar and Spelling Skills of Obama’s most diligent and diehard fans. The warning sign above is a perfect depiction of our friends in the O Movement in action.
This is Join Puma Pac Weekend! The Action today and tomorrow is simple.
Ask five friends and family to check us out and join Puma PAC to reunite the Democratic Party so that is speaks for ALL Democrats in ALL 50 States.
Print out 50 flyers or Drop Cards from our ACTION CENTER, and distribute them in public places in your community this weekend. Get Flyers HERE.
Contribute to Puma PAC if you can.
The party elites, the Obama Movement, and the media are waking up to the fact that they have a REAL problem on their hands. That problem is us. PERFECT.
Today was a thrilling day. At least 140 Pumas joined Mawm and GaryChapelHill in “Unity” New Hampshire to show the world that the Democratic Party is a House Divided. The media narrative is changing. The reporters are realizing that there is a there there with the Puma story. We’re not merely a hot-flash-in-the-pan hissy fit movement that will subside after being ridiculed for a news cycle or two.
The Puma movement and Puma PAC is now bigger than either Hillary Clinton OR Barack Obama. This is about our party; about what it means to be an American who cares about good public schools, safe streets, strong unions, access to college for every American kid, women’s rights, social security, fair housing, environmental stewardship, gay and lesbian rights, a fair shake for immigrants, universal health care, and a shared sense of responsibility for how America conducts herself here and around the world. This is about what it means to be a Democrat. Every Democrat who cares about all of these things, for whom government matters every single day, should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you take the bus to work, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you worry about day care costs, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you receive Social Security benefits, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are a college kid, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are GLBT, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you live in Florida or Michigan, Appalachia, or any other of our 50 states (plus PR and DC), you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are a grandparent, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are single, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you recycle, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are retired, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you give to charity, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you own your own business, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are a veteran, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
If you are in the military or care about someone who is, you should be a member of Puma PAC.
IF YOU REMEMBER THE VALUES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY USED TO REPRESENT, AND IF YOU CARE ABOUT THEM STILL, YOU SHOULD BE A MEMBER OF PUMA PAC.
Our job is to become a PAC of millions of Americans who will remind our Democratic politicians, during every election and throughout the year, that THEY MUST REDEDICATE THEMSELVES TO THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND VALUES OF OUR PARTY. Those being: free and fair elections, personal freedom, equal protection and equal rights, inclusionary policies, a strong middle class, care for the elderly, help for the working class and poor, safe streets, good schools, strong and compassionate foreign policy, and universal health care.
Tell five friends and family members about Puma PAC.
What a farce. Rude, crude, and totally unacceptable Senator Obama. Sitting while she speaks? Droning your repetitious (and BORing!) stump speech on what you claim is a historic day? Using your own daughters to condescend to American women?
Talk Unity out of both sides of your mouth all you want Senator Obama. The Puma PAC response? Dream On.
Contribute to Puma PAC here so we can start advertising our message of ABSOLUTE REJECTION of this empty suit of a candidate AND of what the DNC has allowed our party to become. Every day Senator Obama loses hundreds of thousands of Democrats. We want them to join Puma PAC so we can get our party back! All contributions are used to fund our political activities. All of the work done for Puma PAC is 100% volunteer. We are trying to raise $100,000 by July 20 and WANT TO BE HALFWAY THERE BY JULY 4TH — INDEPENDENCE DAY. Please contribute today!
P.U.M.A. PAC, People United Means Action (http://blog.pumapac.org) is an unconnected political action committee, unaffiliated with any candidate or candidate’s committee.
UPDATE JUNE 27 AT 10:32am: TODAY IS UNITY “BLACKOUT” DAY. WEAR BLACK TODAY TO EXPRESS YOUR BELIEF THAT UNITY IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DIED ON MAY 31st WITH THE DNC MEETING IN WASHINGTON DC. THERE IS NO UNITY IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TODAY, NO MATTER WHAT THE BIG SHOTS DESPERATELY TRY TO INSIST. PUMA PAC MOURNS THE LOSS OF UNITY IN OUR PARTY, AND WE ARE DEDICATED TO RESTORING IT.
Go to Unity, New Hampshire this morning. Pumas are meeting at the Rest Area on Interstate 91 in Vermont between exits 6 and 7 on the east side, rougly between the towns of Rockingham and Springfield.
Pumas will arrive at 8:00AM EST, and stay until 9:00AM EST. You DO NOT need a shuttle bus ticket or an event ticket to attend. Pumas will be arranging rides to the event from the meeting area at the Rest Area. A million thanks to the tireless MAWM of the Confluence for organizing, motivating, and making it happen.
Please try to make it to the rendez-vous before 9:00AM. The Sheriff is shutting down the road to the elementary school at 10:00am, so anyone wanting to be dropped off at the event instead of taking the shuttle will have to leave the rendez-vous point by 9:00am.
Bring your signs. They will not be allowed into the event, but can be carried outside.
Wear black.
We will have some food there, but you are welcome to bring more.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, BRING YOURSELVES! ALL PUMAS WELCOME. PLEASE JOIN US!
p.s. We’re in the Washington Post this morning in an extremely objective and fair piece by Kevin Merida. Link here.
ALSO: There will be a live Q&A at 11:00am with the Post’s political editors, discussing today’s political events. Post your Puma questions and comments now — be sure to mention Puma PAC (they probably don’t allow links, so just use the name). Link here.
P.U.M.A. PAC, People United Means Action, is an unconnected political action committee. We are unaffiliated with any candidate or candidate’s committee. All contributions are used to fund our political activities. They are not tax-deductible.
