What Is This Blog?

Puma PAC is a political action committee organized in June 2008. This is our official website and blog. You may know that there is another, more defiant meaning for the acronym P.U.M.A. and that many of us are motivated by a deep disgust with and distrust of the DNC leadership.

Join us! Simply send an email to join@pumapac.org with the word “join” in the subject line. We really are either all in this together, or all outside alone.

There will be no unity in the Democratic party until the voices of the 18 million voters who support Hillary Clinton are heard and heeded. Until the voices of Pumas are once again listened to by the leadership of the Democratic party, we will be guided by that defiance. We will treat insult with uprightness and will meet disdain with disdain. We will not be bullied, brainwashed, or bossed into falling in line.

It is the goal of this blog to be an oasis in the hostile wilderness of disinformation, discrimination, and dishonesty that the mainstream media, including mainstream blogs and other new media outlets, have become.

We are part of a burgeoning group of bloggers, writers, and citizens who are joining together to fight back against the corrupt leadership of the DNC, their “chosen” candidate, and the mainstream media that enables them. Please visit the sites on the blogroll. We really are either all in this together, or all outside alone. Contribute your comments, insights, and advice. Feel free to lurk, but feel freer to participate.

We strive to provide and foster sane political analysis and honest debate. We aim to be a forum, a bulletin board, a sounding board, and a voice for the 18 million Democrats who have been told our votes and our voices don’t matter and that we are unnecessary and unwelcome.

We will help rescue and revive the crucial Media Critique which was abandoned by so many mainstream blogs and so-called “progressive” writers when they decided to jump on the bandwagon of an untested and unready candidate and became mere propagandists for the right-wing noise machine.

We will fight the misogyny, the elitism, and the divisiveness — engendered by an unprincipled candidate and his campaign and amplified by their willing enablers in the media — that threatens to tear the Democratic party apart.

This is the Puma blog. People United Means Action.

Welcome.

UPDATE, 6/6/08 at 12:38am: Welcome to all the new members and commenters. The response in the past two days has been phenomenal. If you have sent an email to join the Puma PAC today, don’t worry if you haven’t received a confirmation email reply yet. You are officially joined up — sending the email is all you need to do. We will be sending confirmations and email updates as soon as possible. Feel free to email or comment in threads with questions. I will reply.

Because of the troll infestation that swarms when I turn off moderation (geez, I wonder why the trolls are so desperate?), I am going to hold all comments for the next few hours so I can attend to some other matters (I mean get some sleep). If your comment doesn’t appear it has not been deleted or lost — it’s just being held. I’ll release them first thing in the morning.

Please visit the site often for updates and action alerts. Contribute if you can. Puma PAC is not simply a blog, it’s also a political action committee. The blog is our village square. Let’s get rolling!