Are the Boiz concerned about Hillary sneaking up behind them as the Disaster of 2010 looms and 2012 slouches inexorably toward the Cheaters in Chief? The press is needling Gibby about whether Hillary has “given assurances” that she won’t challenge The One for the Dem Primary. Why ask Goofy Gibbs, when you can hear it straight from Hillary? Remember what she said the night they stole the nomination from the voters and from her, in plain sight?

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they’re shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. Even in the darkest of moments, ordinary Americans have found the faith to keep going.”

I don’t know about the geniuses who make up the members of the (ahem, cough) press in this country, but I feel pretty confident about what Hillary Clinton’s position is on giving up.

What do you think, Gibby? What do you think, barack? Nancy? Howard? Do YOU think Hillary Clinton gave up and laid down to die in the woods that night? Do you think she decided to “stop going”? Sleep tight at night if you do. But if not, I bet, as I bet you do too, that whatever Hillary Clinton decides to do in the next year or two, she IS coming after you.

She will never, ever stop going.

Good Monday Morning, Pumas! I’m attending to some unfinished business today, but will be near a computer most of the day. What’s going on in the news today? I have a feeling a lot of the stuff bubbling up around Afghanistan, PrimaryGate, BlackPantherGate, and that the now not-so-secret war by the obama administration against Hillary Clinton will be boiling over this week. If, as Hillaryis44 claims, obama and his minions have it out for Hillary, I wonder if they will choose this upcoming weekend, when she will undoubtedly be (somewhat) distracted by her daughter’s big wedding, to really pull out the knives. Just wondering . . .

What are you wondering about today?

In strategizing with his fellow (and I do mean “fellow”) members of Journolist, Spencer Ackerman, then of the Nation, was arguing with the group against rising to the bait and either defending or criticizing Jeremiah Wright. He said:

“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”

There you have it, Folks. Right out in the plain light of day. Spokespeople and actual journalists, being paid salaries by legitimate news organizations, calling people racists, simply as a STRATEGY. Explicitly. What a bunch of stupid idiots. And lord are they fond of their pretentious cliches: “It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense,” and “And I think this threads the needle.” Read any of their emails over at the Daily Caller and you can’t help but laugh at their hopeless affectations and their juvenile need to impress the other members of their Super Double Secret Club of Smarty Pantses with their lofty erudition, or at least their familiarity with the most popular cliches of those who want to be seen as lofty, and erudite.

Yuck, yuck, yuck

Are those guys White Dude enough for ya, or what!? I haven’t seen the original videos or the uncut videos of Sherrod’s speech, so I don’t know what my opinion is of that matter yet, but I do know that Violet is 100% correct about the muck and mire that is the left-wing Blogger Boyz’ natural environment. Speaking of Violet, she, along with yttik and delphyne, did great work over at Twisty’s place debunking the myth of the so-called feminism of the Democratic Party, as well as sticking up for working class women, religious women, and feminism in general. Way to go, Gals!

Not yoursweetie has updated info about Journolist!

Papa and his 3 youngest grandchildren at the lake in New Hampshire, 2008.

Thank you to Dances and TT for posting the preceding and prompting so many Pumas to stop in and leave such heart-lifting messages. I hope you don’t mind that I plan to mine the comments for material to use at the memorial service on Wednesday. Honestly, there are beautiful things posted there.

I also want to thank admin over at Hillaryis44 for reaching out to me and us. She continues to be both a must-read firebrand and a supremely effective ally. And especially SF-Puma for posting a tribute to my father on her page. I’ll re-post the comment I left at her site, only because her post reminded me of how inextricably linked my father was to the founding of Puma PAC. On the 12-hour drive home from Washington DC on June 2, 2008 he and I took turns driving. While I was driving I was mulling over what had happened to Hillary at the Wardman Park Marriott and vowing to do all that I could, to be a DIFFERENT person, when I got home. I never would have taken that trip down to DC without my father’s encouragement and support. I never would have started Puma PAC without him.

“Thank you T. When junior and I were volunteering for the Hillary campaign he wanted to know every last detail. When she came to the headquarters in Boston, junior and I were there — my daughter was given the job of taking care of the press and checking their credentials, and of course Papa sneaked in with his big camera to be there with us. Junior gave him a pass and he got some great pictures, including one of Hillary signing an autograph for me. He always wanted to be a part of whatever we were doing.

It was his idea to drive down to DC for the RBC meeting on May 30. It was me, him, my 3 girls and my niece — all the women of the family. We drove the MVOD like a bat out of hell. I had a pass into the meetings and he took the kids to the zoo and checked in on everything via the tv’s in the hotel lobby. He was devastated when they took away Hillary’s delegates and sealed the deal for obama.

It was on the ride home from DC with him that I decided my life should be more meaningful and that we needed to do something about what happened to Hillary– and that I would start Puma PAC.

I’m 41 years old, have three children, and have led a pretty rich life, but I’ve never had a broken heart.

Now I do.

Thank you so much for posting this on your page.

– Murphy.”

In other news… stuff is happening. Post it here. Link, discuss, inform, argue, and be the wonderful Pumas you always are.

This is an open thread.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

“Thank you so much everyone for your thoughts and prayers.
My father died today of cancer.
He was 67 which was too young but he had a good life and was surrounded by family.
I will post again soon
–Murphy”

Sea Fever

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

John Masefield 1878-1967

I was sad to see unkindness on the blog today. As I said to my sister at the hospital today: This sucks, and on top of that we are surrounded by crazy people who do insane and hurtful things. Let’s not fight with EACH OTHER.

She agreed.

]]> http://pumapac.org/2010/07/15/8780/feed/ 117 http://pumapac.org/2010/07/12/in-case-you-didnt-hear-us-the-first-time-well-repeat-obama-stole-the-2008-democratic-primaries/ http://pumapac.org/2010/07/12/in-case-you-didnt-hear-us-the-first-time-well-repeat-obama-stole-the-2008-democratic-primaries/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:14:51 +0000 murphy http://pumapac.org/?p=8773 And he and his gang will do it again too, if we let them. But this time, Pumas are still sounding the alarm. What happened with the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation cover-up, as well as Holder’s Justice Department’s alleged policy of not prosecuting Voting Rights Act complaints brought by citizens who happen to be white, suddenly has a larger context, a background, a backstory, and, crucially, a THEME. And the theme is: Barack Obama and his Movement will lie, cheat, and steal to win elections. Literally.

Since many of today’s readers may be new to this site and ones like it, I’ll post a few links for background information on what’s been going on in the Democratic party and in the upper echelons of DC and the national media headquarters since at least 2005.

Hillary Clinton actually received MORE VOTES than obama in the Dem Primaries and Caucuses of 2008. Let that sink in. Every time you read or hear a media spokesperson refer to Clinton’s “bitter loss” or “incompetent campaign” or “hard-fought loss” to obama, please  click on this link to reassure yourself that YES, the media is shamelessly lying. Clinton did not suffer a “bitter loss.” She won for lord’s sake. What she did do, was finally throw in the towel on June 7, 2008 because she knew she couldn’t beat the DNC Machine. So she cut her losses and tried to salvage a worthy and valuable goal from the corrupt wreckage of the New Democratic Party, as shamefully redesigned by Axelrod, obama, Emanuel, Brazile, and Pelosi. That gang, with obama as their untouchable figurehead, tragically transformed the party of inclusive, idealistic, and all-American common sense liberalism into a Chicago style club of insider-only thugs who play disenfranchised groups off of each other, working only to keep us divided and hating each other so we’ll be distracted fighting for scraps from a government that no longer guarantees justice for all but instead payback with taxpayer cash for a few (and, yes, the “few” most certainly include the corporate interests that funded his campaign).

But not only did Clinton receive more votes; she also received them in a climate of corruption, intimidation, and blatant favoritism practiced by the media and the party referees; the Dem party  leadership and media honchos who had the hots for an obama presidency. In Nevada and Texas, the corruption and illegal activity by the obama campaign against Clinton voters at the polling places was so blatant and out of control that the Clinton Campaign officially registered a complaint with the DNC and requested an investigation into, among other things:

• Deliberately miscounted votes to favor Senator Obama.
• Deliberately counted unregistered persons as Obama votes.
• Deliberately counted young children as Obama votes.
• Refused to accept preference cards from Clinton supporters who were at the caucus site by noon on the ground that the cards were not filled out fast enough.
• Told Clinton supporters to leave prior to electing delegates.
• Clinton supporters who arrived late were turned away from the caucus, while late Obama supporters were admitted to the caucus.
• Obama supporters falsely informed Clinton supporters that no registration forms were available for them to register to vote at the caucus site.
• Obama supporters wrongly told Clinton supporters who were attempting to caucus at the wrong precinct that they could not caucus at that site, while simultaneously permitting Obama supporters at the wrong precinct to participate.
• Obama supporters were allowed to move to the front of the registration and sign-in line.
• Workers were informed that their supervisors kept lists of Clinton and Obama supporters, and were told that they could not caucus unless their name was on the list of Obama supporters.
• Many Clinton supporters were threatened with employment termination or other discipline if they caucused for Senator Clinton.
• Workers were required to sign a pledge card to support Obama if they wanted time off to participate in the caucus.
• Workers at one casino were offered a lavish lunch and permitted to attend and register to vote only if they agree to support Obama.

Apparently some pretty big media outlets are FINALLY starting to understand what we’ve been trying to explain for years. As Hillbuzz says, “It is never the crime, but the coverup that does these people in. Democrats never bothered to coverup the voter fraud because the Media never talked about it and too few Americans were ever interested in it.“

For those of us in the thick of things, paying attention, and screaming our heads off for what feels like forever to try to get the mainstream media to listen, two years feels like an eternity. But we said in June 2008, and again in November, and we say it almost every day: Pumas are in this for the long haul. We can’t rest, because every day new developments show just how right we were. New examples of obama incompetence make clear how we were right about how serious the consequences for our country and our democracy would be when the media cheerleaders facilitated the Emanuel-Axelrod-Dean Chicago style takeover of the Democratic National Committee.

Pumas Won’t Rest.

• Not until every underhanded and unfair decision by the DNC to tip the scales for one “historic” candidate in favor of another, equally historic and absurdly more qualified candidate is exposed.
• Not until the $259 MILLION dollars worth of campaign donations from UNDISCLOSED DONORS is accounted for. Where did all those tens of millions of dollars come from?
• Not until the thousands of letters, phone calls, and official complaints lodged by average, every day voters about the blatant and disturbing instances of obama campaign operatives stealing ballots, intimidating voters, locking polling places, closing polling places early, and lying about polling locations are investigated, prosecuted, and punished.

As we said to obama and his establishment enablers in the Party and in the media back in July 2008, almost two years ago to the day:

“You and your followers have nothing to offer but the sop of feel-good politics. Your only offering to the civic life of our nation is a sweet, cynical, shallow bribe. And your hands, which force that feel-good sop like a chloroform soaked rag on a complacent nation reach for nothing more noble than personal power, riches, and fame. Our candidate, a woman, was not only the most likely to win in November, she was also the most prepared to lead. She still is. You destroyed her candidacy and dismissed her voters.

To all the feminist leaders and writers out there, those who have lied themselves into believing they are more than just window-dressed cheerleaders for the Obama Movement, wake up!

The derailed candidacy of Hillary Clinton is a flashpoint that sparked a small war in the Democratic Party. For millions of us, this is the most significant feminist event in our lifetimes. But it is much more than that. It is a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party — a war between the forces of feel-good politics and the forces of do-good politics. We know which side we are on.

Do you?”

Every citizen who watches this video and learns about what really happened in 2008 needs to ask her or himself the same question: Which side am I on? You don’t “like” Hillary Clinton? Big whoop. You don’t “like” the Democratic Party, or the Republican Party, or CNN or Fox? Bigger whoop. This isn’t ABOUT Hillary Clinton. It isn’t about Glenn Beck or Ted Kennedy (well, actually it IS sort of about that jackass willing-to-bend-the-rules to get a proxy president for himself since he knew his chance was long gone). It’s about democracy and how the people who enforce the rules in a democracy must be held accountable by the organized and unified front of the single most important component of a government by the people: the Individual Voter. All American voters must be united against the sort of corruption and tyrannical acts undertaken by candidate Barack Obama and his campaign to win the presidency at all costs in 2008.

Spread the message around the internet. Post it on Gretawire, on Facebook, on Twitter. Don’t let this story die again.

Here’s a little test. Look at the paintings below. Decide whether the person in the painting should be described as a Subject or an Object. A Subject, just like in grammar, is a person (or thing, but we’re talking about humans here, so bear with me) who DOES something; takes some sort of action. The Subject is a person who does stuff. An Object, just like in grammar, is a person who things are done TO. Stuff happens to Objects. Subjects DO STUFF. Objects have STUFF DONE TO THEM. This morning in the Boston Globe I came across this sentence: “The man accused of murdering his former girlfriend told police she slashed him on the finger – so he stabbed her repeatedly and then drove around the South Shore as she bled to death while sitting next to him in a car, according prosecutors and a police report.” Now, I grant you that the who did what to whom in that sentence is somewhat murky. After all, she DID “slash” his finger. The bitch. But either way, do you agree with me, that in that example, Edward Aduayi is the SUBJECT of the sentence, and Karneetha Sanders is the OBJECT? Excellent. Now on to the Visual Portion of this test. In the pictures below, one of the people is depicted as a SUBJECT (someone who does stuff), and the other is depicted as an OBJECT (someone stuff is done to). Which is which?

La Grande Odalisque by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. p.s. "odalisque" means a sex slavey sort of whore in French.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutz

Before tuning in to Goddess Radio, be sure to get your Daily Dose of Outrage right heah. The middle link comes by way of a commenter at Twisty’s, who has posted a not-to-be-missed series of essays as part of Art Week at her I Blame the Patriarchy blog. Twisty herself is, obviously, brilliant, but read the comments for the most comprehensive edification. I’ve been mulling over a half dozen of the ideas I read there all week. I agree with her that pornography is, in fact, art because art, in her words, is simply “an idea with a frame around it” (yes, the frame can be metaphorical). So yup, pornography is art; It frames the thought that “Pornography is the graphic representation of rape, presented from the point of view that rape is awesome.” Or, because I can’t resist the urge to paste a longish quote from this brilliant post:

“When rape apologists and misogynist pervs defend their crap-ass pornography as art, I say let’em. Well, first I say fuck’em, because they’re sociopaths. But then I say let’em. Let’em have that splintery old bone of contention. So what if Paddy the Pornographer calls his deviantART voyeurfest “art”? What’s the big whoop? Fine, it’s art already. You’re still a fucking perv exploiter motherfucker.

That’s right, I’m saying pornography is art. Take a Xanax. It’s not like art is God or something. The way I see it, art has no problem sinking to the level of pornography.

Now that that’s out of the way, we can get down to the business of radical feminist critique of that shit. We can get on with the case against art of violence, art of oppression, art of human suffering, art of titillation. If pornographers don’t have to defend pornography as art, we can force’em to defend it as good art. Which is of course impossible! Good art is informed by Truth ‘n’ Beauty, not by violence, oppression, human suffering, and titillation.”

Good stuff. On the other hand, the women at EVE (Equal Visibility Everywhere) led by Lynette Long, are doing everything right. I love their agenda, their methods, and their no-nonsense Let’s Just Do This attitude. I’m adding their widget to the left sidebar so Pumas can check in and join in on their ongoing actions. Check out the PowerPoint presentation Dr. Long made “showing” the invisibility of women in the public sphere. She says that she presented this slide show to 400 or so progressive, social change types at a conference in D.C. recently and the reaction was thunderous shock. As Long puts it, we can’t really see what’s so damn invisible, that is, us women.

You’ll definitely need some Goddess Radio to ease the mental contortions that spending some time with Twisty and her pals, as well as the women of EVE. Can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday, really.

Click HERE to listen live.

I guess the point of all this is, having spent the better part of a week thinking about art and words and women, it seems to me the most important rule to live by is: No matter what, where, when, or how, always BE A SUBJECT. Never be an Object. Don’t lie on the bed. Get up and cross the Delaware.

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"Shenandoah Valley Sunrise" by Connie Tom

Back on the road this morning. Heading up to the Great Metro West and a holiday weekend heat wave — wahoo! Please continue to post links and ideas here between trips from the hammock to the pitcher of spiked lemonade chilling in the fridge.