LOL!  And I know I'm distorting what he said with that whole "code word" thing, but it's because I find him so amusing.  And isn't everything a code word these days? And I'm also chuckling because I'm giddy with relief that someone is bashing PUMA's without talking about grief.  LOL!

And true, some think PUMAs are "um, wrongheaded," but others think it's wrongheaded to tacitly support what happened in the primary, because it's horrible for Democrats and Democracy in the long-term.  So I guess that makes the two groups even-steven.

1. Rented a football stadium for her acceptance speech while not yet formally having enough delegates to claim the nomination

2. Moved the DNC to New York City

3. Invented a lame faux-presidential seal

4. Took a self-coronation tour of Europe

5. Had "President" stitched on the back of her recliner in H-Force One, after painting her initials over the American flag on the tail

6. Went on vacation while the other candidate campaigned for her.

1. PUMA are not all women
   
2. PUMA are not all over 50
   
3. PUMA are Democrats who are furious with the DNC
   
4. PUMA is not an acronym for sour grapes
   
5. Not all HRC supporters put gender ahead of qualifications for why they supported her

In additon, there were more voters this primary season than ever before and not everyone that participated was at the extreme of the spectrum of party above all.

Sadly, the fact is they believe people are robots that vote party line no questions asked...But that was the USSR, not the USA.

Jeralyn has stated she won't vote for Obama if Biden is the VP.  I look forward to lots of posts about how "wrongheaded", to put it politely, that is.

My guess is that PUMAs are "wrongheaded" because the tacit determination has been made that our complaints of sexism in the Dem party are not important enough to pay attention to.  

PUMA is just the tip of the iceberg of Obama's problems.

First Don Fowler and Alice Germond's 'get over it whiners' letter and now Pannetta calls us entitled and inbred, hmmm, can you smell the unity?!

After February 19th, Obama was clearly the front-runner, and had the media, the money, and momentum behind him.  From that point on, however, Clinton demonstrated that she was clearly the better candidate, but it didn't matter how effectively she managed to clean Obama's clock in the subsequent primaries in crucial states, the flow of superdelegates continued toward Obama.  

The RBC meeting was the tipping point for a lot of people; while it was intuitively obvious that the 'fix was in' for Obama before that point, the blatant disregard for the party's own rules that was on display at that meeting made the corruption manifest.

I am a PUMA and proud of it. I have also been a Dem my entire life and proud of that-put up with crap from repubs forever. I will not put up with it from people in my own party. I will either try to correct the wrongs in my party or leave. I don't care what the bots or media say. They are incredibly ill informed. Puma is a coalition of people with many bottom lines on voting for Obama, but with the overriding goal of correcting/reforming the party to be more democratic..

Referring to the Krugman / economy thread earlier, the DNC claque's intent to dowplay the economic security and standard of life enjoyed under Those Awful Clintons will be devastating.

Harping on utterly frivolous ego issues like, eg, Obama's "funny-sounding name" during the Olympics is so dumb it defies description.

Funny-sounding? Really? Now of all times isn't the time to feign that kind of victimization.

And if there's anything worse than the idiotic, enduring psycho-caca unleashed on HRC supporters, exemplified by this mentality:

tasked by the Obama campaign this summer with soothing ruffled feelings and helping Hillary loyalists to get over their sense of loss. It has been a demanding assignment.

... Zombie Psycho-Caca is it.

Ruffled Feelings?!? Really? Really?!? I don't even want ruffles on my chips.

Oh Feathered Quetzlecoatl, gawds and gawdesses, whatever powers lubricate the workings of the planet and universe, flush this self-help hooey away once and for all.

Give me some substantial discussion on issues besides what's miffing Obama this week or some utterly patronizing idiocy that's allegedly making me vulnerable to the heartbreak of PUMAnesque related ailments.

Most of all, we are absolutely correct in believing that Obama cannot win this election and that the best the Democrats can hope for is a unity ticket with Hillary on top.  

But don't let that stop you from making fun of us.  It's fairly typical.  We aren't voting for Obama because not only is he unqualified but the way his campaign rushed the caucuses suggests some very undemocratic behavior.  If that kind of president makes you comfortable that he will do what is right and respect you as a voter, go right ahead, act like you want anyone but a Democrat so your friends won't laugh at you and call you a PUMA.

The sense of entitlement seems to be his. That is the attitude Obama must absolutely avoid now.

That's going to be hard to do because it's that sense of entitlement that defines him.

Is Panetta looking to get sympathy points from somewhere?  Where?  There are none to be had.

The more experienced, better qualified, harder-working woman, taking the back-seat to the in-experienced, unqualified male who gets the job.

Actually HRC as VP even aggravates me more because it continues the theme - the better-qualified woman in the back seat telling the clueless boss what to do. (And taking the blame if things go wrong.)

Ugh.

Panetta was not calling PUMAs inbred; I read it as saying their sense of entitlement was a couldn't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees, echo chamber kind of thing.

That being said, however, Panetta ought to know that this isn't just a case of people feeling Hillary was entitled to the nomination and holding some kind of childish grudge that she didn't get it.  This is about people who believed she was the better candidate, could see and do the math on the votes that were cast, were aware that the DNC was tipping the scales in favor of Obama, have puzzled over the dismissal of long-time, loyal Democrats, can hear for themselves the constant changing of position and can point to FISA as a prime example.

Obama took us for granted from the beginning, so sure was he that he could get all of the Hillary voters, and get them without having to lift a finger.  Well, I have a finger for him - two, actually - and I would not have to be chickensh!t about pretending to scratch my cheek in order to show them to him.

I don't know where it started, but someone, somewhere decided Obama was worth taking the Democratic Party apart for, and then failed to have a plan for convincing its members that the "new" party would be oh so worth it.

Sorry.  My vote.  My choice.  You want my vote?  Earn it.  You want my respect?  Ditto.

I'm quite comfortable with my Cynthia McKinney vote, myself. I don't think it's good to "not vote," at all, but that's a personal judgment call. Some people might honestly feel that there's truly nobody to vote for.

Clinton supporters love her, support her, and want her to be President in the worst way.

They despise Obama because they prefer Clinton.

The Obama Nation love him, support him, and want him to be President.

Too bad we couldn't have fallen in love with Gore or Kerry as a unit or they would have won the presidency in spite of BushCo's dirty tricks.

I was willing to vote for Gore but I didn't really care much for him, same as Kerry.

Ever played it as a kid?  As either Keeper or Keepee?  Keeper is fun in a mean kind of way, but having something kept away from you, esp. while the Keepers are confidently laughing that you're not tall enough to reach the ball, is enraging in a frustration-to-tears sort of way.

Now my vote is the ball and they're reacting with all the childish tears and frustration of the Keep Away victim.

I have said all along that just a few votes in some close contests could make the difference, but in their joy at kickin' me and other long-time but uncool lunchpail Dems to the curb, they forgot that.

Know what?  I d*mn well am entitled.  I'm entitled to my vote.  I'm entitled to reject the peope who stood silently, if not laughingly, while the netroots-msm unleased the wilding attack dogs of misogyny across the infotainmentsphere.  I'm entitled to reject the party that violated its own procedural rules and basic principles of fairness to throw the election toward the less-able candidate.  And I'm entitled to refuse my support to the Kool Aid myrmidons hell-bent on destroying reasoned political discourse just to put their fantasy superhero on a throne.

They are entitled to nothing from me.  They have no legal or, after the primaries, moral claim on my for my vote or my support.

And the only reasonable answer is:  YES.  Every other time a man with my qualifications applied for this job, they got it.  These are what the qualifications are.  I have them.  Therefore, I am entitled to the job.

The "entitlement" theme just plays into the sexism that no woman is entitled to a job that a man wants.  And lots and lots of women know about that sexism, we've experienced it, and we have seen it playing out every single day since January, and, astonishingly, it continues to this day with all the sturm und drang over putting HRC's name into nomination.  YES, she's entitled, d*mn it!  (Unless, of course, there's a man who doesn't want her name in nomination.)

all we need now is for someone to say that will teach Obama to try and hire former Clinton people?

The roll-call will not be enough to bring Rothschild back into the fold, however. "We're not going to win by pretending problems with Barack Obama don't exist. He has a huge problem connecting with ordinary Americans, who think, `He doesn't understand me.' He is not modest; he is arrogant. He radiates elitism."

Sorry, there's something very weird here about a Rothschild calling someone like Obama elitist.

And then these 2 paragraphs:

She is not impressed by Barack Obama and doubts he will reach the White House. "My loyalty is to the Democrats winning. Barack Obama is going to have a serious problem getting elected, for good reason," she said in an interview.

She poured her heart and money into Hillary Clinton's campaign and she is thinking of voting for John McCain, the Republican candidate, for president.

So anyone who has not served in the military, sat in a bomber, shot at america's "enemies" does not love his country.