Good Morning Pumas PAC — today is a new day and a new week! We have a BIG Action Week planned, so let’s get going. Thanks to the generosity and talent of Puma PAC member Fred, we have an amazing new Puma PAC poster/flyer for members to distribute. We have 5,000 of these intense and persuasive full color flyers ready to go. We are challenging you to distribute 100 of them in public places in your communities this week.
Today’s Action Item is to send an email to flyers@pumapac.org with your mailing address so we can send you 100 flyers. As soon as you receive them, start spreading them all over town!
Oh, and over the weekend, Obama pedaled then back-pedaled his views on abortion. So, that was a flip, and then a flop — watch today for another flip. What a flop this guy is. Link here.
P.U.M.A. PAC, People United Means Action, is the Voice of the Voters (http//blog.pumapac.org). We are an unconnected political action committee, unaffiliated with any candidate or candidate’s committee. All monies raised are used to fund our political activities and come in small contributions from individual donors. Contributions are not tax-deductible.
Quote of the Day, via bmw60 in comments: “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ” — Patrick Henry, 1775
UPDATE DENVER, JULY 4TH, 2008 AT 12:00PM: Step One of Puma PAC’s planning for Denver is now underway. We will be posting updates and details OFTEN over the next week, so don’t fret. First, if you are interested in joining us in Denver, please send an email today to gotodenver@pumapac.org. Please include the following info: Your real name; your blog user name if you have one; the closest major city and your state; how many in your party; and very important: whether you are DEFINITELY going, might be going, want to go but have problems. ALSO, PLEASE PLEASE include your cell phone number. Obviously we will only call you if absolutely necessary and would NEVER give the number away; this is a safety precaution. IMPORTANT: Puma PAC cannot provide housing. We will be providing links and tips for accommodations, but housing all the Pumas is beyond our scope. We WILL help people get there. Please let us know in your email HOW you plan to get to Denver: car, plane, train, bus, or Puma PAC bus. We will do our VERY BEST to help everyone get there. Friends and family members WELCOME!
Remember to Join Puma PAC if you haven’t already. JOIN HERE
Contribute to the BUSES TO DENVER FUND (suggested donation is $10 or $20)
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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UPDATE 7/2/08 AT 6:45PM: THEY SEND EMAILS. Received this lovely in email just now. Stay classy Obama Movement; stay classy:
Subject:
your fox interview last week?
From:
“Liz Zee”
Date:
Wed, July 2, 2008 3:32 pm
To:
murphy@pumapac.org
Options:
it was great. by your answers, you're upset with the dnc more than you are with
obama. so why are you so hateful on HIM?
Me thinks it's racism for sure, but from what i've so easily gathered in the last
few minutes on line, you're actually a republican all along!
well, that no surprise.
your millions strong is a really FATT joke. obama leads by a WIDE margin. see that?
whitey! if you were any pastier you'd flake away in the wind. soon, i am sure.
--from Liz
(another whitey!)
BARACK OBAMA RECEIVED A DEEPLY DISCOUNTED INTEREST RATE ON HIS $1.32 MILLION MORTGAGE FROM A POLITICALLY CONNECTED SUB-PRIME LENDING COMPANY, ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST AND ALL MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS. FROM THE POST ARTICLE:
“‘The real question is: Were congressmen getting unique treatment that others weren’t getting?’ associate law professor Adam J. Levitin, a credit specialist at Georgetown University Law Center, said about the Countrywide loans. ‘Do they do business like that for people who are not congressmen? If they don’t, that’s a problem.’ “. . .
“‘It’s certainly safe to say that this borrower [U.S. Senator Barack Obama] did better than average,’ said Keith Gumbinger, an HSH vice president, noting that consumer rates vary widely. ‘It’s a good deal.” . . .
“Jumbo loans are for amounts up to $650,000, but the Obamas’ $1.32 million loan was so large that few comparables are available. Mortgage specialists say that many high-end buyers pay cash.” . . .
“Since 1990, Northern Trust employees have donated more than $739,000 to federal campaigns, including $71,000 to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
“Obama’s house purchase has been a source of controversy. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that on the day of the closing, the wife of Obama’s longtime friend and fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko closed on an adjoining lot that had been the estate’s side yard.
The Obamas bought the house for $300,000 less than the asking price of $1.95 million, while Rezko’s wife, Rita, bought the neighboring lot for the full asking price of $625,000. Rita Rezko later sold a portion of the undeveloped lot to the Obamas, enlarging the senator’s yard.
Tony Rezko already had been linked to a grand jury investigation involving public corruption. Last month, he was convicted of 16 counts in an influence-peddling scheme that reached the highest levels of Illinois state government.”
READ THE REST OF THE NOT VERY SURPRISING TALE AT THE WASHINGTON POST, HERE.
Well, the warm fuzzy glow of the longest primary season infatuation in history is starting to cool. A decided chill is setting in for the Precious. The kool-aid effect is finally starting to wear off. People are waking up. The media is starting to get skeptical (here, here, here, andhere). The polls are reflecting this skepticism (here and here). Left Blogistan is showing distinct signs of disarray (here, here, here, and here).
We can stop this train wreck of a candidate before he loses us the White House and inflicts untold damage on the Democratic party.
We need to stay united, firm, and active.
Join Puma PAC here. Register to bloghere. Contribute to the Puma PAC Fundraising ROAR! here so we can wake up the rest of the still-sleeping Democrats. And visit the ACTION CENTER here for resources on what you can DO TODAY to spread the word of the Puma movement.
David Axelrod and Barack Obama are showing us just how easy it is to manipulate American presidential elections by marrying tried and true crony tactics to 21st Century technology. Does the Obama Movement sometimes remind you of the American Idol craze? Me too. Do the emails you’ve received from the Obama for America front remind you of the mass e-mailings you get from Mary Kay Cosmetics every other day? Me too! Has it sometimes felt to you like we are living inside a scary political action thriller straight out of the Bourne Identity franchise? Me too. Here’s how it happened.
THE THREE STEP PLAN TO TAKING OVER THE WHITE HOUSE AND RULING THE WORLD!
using Inside Influence and EBay Era Marketing Tricks
by Bad Guys with Worse Motives
Step 1. Find and groom an attractive, unique, insecure, and young politician and grease the skids for his election to state and federal office. (HINT! The media will love him; this is KEY.)
Step 2. Launch the most sophisticated internet network marketing scheme possible to convince suckers (it doesn’t matter how poor they are!) to send in $5 or more. Use the most advanced technology available toastroturf what looks like an actual movement. (HINT! The media is TOO LAZY to ever investigate anything this complicated. This is GOOD for you!)
Step 3. Lie, smear, and bait your opponent. Bully and intimidate her voters at polling places, especially the less regulated caucuses. Do all you can to discredit her and divide her supporters. (HINT! The media will love this!). Do this with a straight face while putting your “Candidate” on stage and on camera with pre-printed, plagiarized (don’t skip this link!) and shop-worn speeches, cliches, and platitudes, replete with trigger words and subliminal messages, about HOPE and CHANGE and DESTINY. (HINT! The media chases its own tail; they only pay attention to the man on the stage, never to the people behind the curtain. This is GOOD for you!)
If you follow this simple, three-step guide to Ruling the Free World, you too can install your favorite American Idol or cosmetic purveyor in the Oval Office.
Remember, it’s just a Ponzi scheme. But this time, with the global reach of the worldwide web, Paypal, and the mainstream media. HOPE for a better future? CHANGE your life! BELIEVE in us! Get ULTIMATE POWER!
Watch these videos by the burgeoning Youtube star Flineo and you’ll see why we need to get as many Americans as possible to wake up and stop the debacle that is the Obama Movement from taking over our federal government and civic life. Blog these videos; email them; write down the URLs on post-it notes and stick them on the windshields of every car in your supermarket or office parking lot.
This video by our own N. Lee is just plain creeperific. From the Fellowship Training Camps, to the Children’s Brigade, to the glazed-over brainlessness that really does typify so many Obamabots, the man inside Barack Obama’s very fine suit has become the figurehead of a really weird movement.
Around the blogosphere, the questions have been whispered and passed around for months now. Riverdaughter, the well-known Goldberry at DailyKos, started her own blog (The Confluence) back in January when she just couldn’t take the blind adoration anymore. Her site reached the 2,000,000 mark over the weekend. And our territory on the Blogosphere keeps expanding. . .
Now the questions are reaching people off the internet. The voters of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, South Dakota, Puerto Rico, heard the doubts and listened to their hearts and their common sense and rejected this empty suit, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE INSTRUCTED BY THE DNC AND THE MEDIA to embrace him. They did their best. Hillary Clinton and her strongest supporters did their best. But the deck was stacked too high, the bias was too overwhelming. The DNC selected him and the media stood idly by, and continue to do so.
But the questions remain:
Who is this man? What are his motives? Where are his accomplishments? When did he decide he should rule the world? Why now?
