Thursday, February 14, 2013

Lest We Forget: PUMA Edition

Throwing down the gauntlet « The Confluence
...PUMA was only tangentially about Hillary Clinton. We thought she was the best candidate in 2008 but the fact that she was a woman was only icing on the cake.

PUMA was about voters. When the party decided to manipulate the delegate count to get their predetermined outcome, ignoring 18000000 voters, they crossed the line with many of us. If Obama had won fair and square, we would have voted for him. The fact that he didn’t signalled to us that he wasn’t going to listen to voters. When the party turned over our votes and our protestations were squashed by the likes of Kos, Obama figured that he could do just about anything without any reference to the voters in his base. And that’s just what he’s done...

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