“PUMA” (PARTY UNITY MY ASS) AND “JUST SAY NO DEAL” ARE TWO OF THE TOOLS REPUBLICANS ARE USING TO DISHONOR BARACK OBAMA
AS A LIFE-LONG DEMOCRAT, I DEEPLY RESENT ANY ATTEMPT ON THE PART OF GROUPS WHO CALL THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS WHEN, IN FACT, THEY ARE SURREPTITIOUS ARMS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, TO SABOTAGE OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
We have all heard and read about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that is a group of disgruntled veterans of the Viet Nam war who were angry with John Kerry for returning home, organizing veterans against the war, testifying before the Congress on atrocities undertaken by our troops and toured the country to convince the American people, the President and the Congress to pull out of war we could not win.
Because Kerry had won several metals for bravery, i.e. three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star, when Kerry was nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party, this group of discontents through the leadership of Jerome Scorci wrote a book of lies and deceptions against the nominee for President of the United States. Entitled, Unfit to Lead, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, ran ads accusing Kerry of receiving undeserved metals and honors and then turning his back on his fellow veterans and his country by cursing the very war that had honored him without cause. Corci, who is a well known trouble maker, is a right-wing Republican without either the credentials or the principles to conduct an honorable campaign undertook a multi-million dollar crusade to defeat Kerry and elect a man of his own ilk, George W. Bush.
Corci is at again. This time he has come out with another book of fabrications, deceit and falsehoods about Barack Obama, the African American Democrat who won the nomination for president. Corci is a well-known right winger. He insists that he is a member of the Constitution Party and endorses neither Obama nor John McCain; however, the campaign which he again will finance through the efforts of a group of wealthy men primarily from Texas, are an integral part of the military-industrial complex.
This time, he is joined by two groups who call themselves Democrats, but because of their tactics and their falsifications are seeking to achieve the same results that Corsi is attempting to reach—the defeat of the Democratic nominee for president.
Dara Murphy and Will Bowers representing PUMA and JUST SAY NO DEAL appeared on Hardball this past week were really given the old one-two by David Shuster. He had his facts together and he silenced some of the absurd comments both Murphy and Bowers were spewing out as truth.
I am a life-long Democrat who has run for Congress, chaired committees for JFK, was offered an appointment by JFK and more or less remained out of the political fray until Barack Obama came along. Since I live in Illinois seven months out of the year and Florida for five months, I consider Obama my Senator and having seen him work up close, this is one of the most brilliant minds I have seen in the political arena since JFK.
I spent three days with Kennedy when he was the Junior Senator from Massachusetts and from that time on became an active Democrat. Some of you are holding out for Hillary are simply hitting the nail squarely on the thumb.
I am 71 years old and I believe deeply that Hillary lost the nomination by her behavior and the behavior of Bill and her staff. Hillary muddied the water with several un-Democratic tactics that angered me. Her demeanor and her tactics forced me to drop my support for her and seriously back Obama. In the Midwest and South, the love for Hillary and Bill has been seriously diluted by their behavior in the last months of the primaries.
The demand that Michigan and Florida be counted for her is absurd. Simply because her campaign staff failed to play ball in the caucus states demonstrates to me the utter arrogance which she displayed from the beginning by insisting she would have this thing wrapped up by February, 2008.
In Florida and Illinois there are millions of Hillary Haters. I did not understand their position for some time, but after she began to play the games, I became less and less committed to her candidacy.
In other words, Hillary lost this campaign pure and simple and she has nobody else to blame. It was not the media, or Obama’s campaign; it was her own mismanagement of her campaign that disillusioned many of us who were former supporters.
This nation cannot afford another four years of George Bush and John McCain is not, as some Hillary Democrats are claiming, a liberal. He has supported 95% of George W. Bush’s policies and since he became the “presumptive Republican nominee,” he has flipped flopped on what to me as a Democrat are key issues.
He supports a war which I believe with all my heart was one of the biggest mistakes of this century.
He wants to continue the tax cuts that favored the rich by 75% and left the middle class and poor with crumbs.
He does not support universal health care which is literally killing thousands of Americans each year (According to the Medical professional about 125,000 die each year from inadequate insurance).
He has no plan to rescue the economy from the failure of Bush to manage the nation’s financial crisis. When he took office, Clinton left the nation’s treasury with a surplus and because of he war and the tax cuts, by the time he leaves office after eight years, the deficit will end up approximately $9 trillion dollars in the hole with countries like China owning most of the paper and thereby having the potential to control much of our future.
The man who guided the Clinton economic revitalization was Bob Rubin who is supporting Barack Obama.
Five years in prison and 26 years in the Senate does not make John McCain and expert in foreign affairs and the war against terror. A list of Generals and Admirals a mile long support Obama. Several of the brightest military minds have openly stated that McCain does not have the mental or emotional capacity to lead this nation’s foreign affairs. 26 years of experience in McCain’s case is nothing more the one year of experience 26 times over.
The appointment of judges who see the constitution as a dynamic document that be viewed in the light of the 21st century and the problems we face today, and not in the light of the 18th century when issues were totally different, is a critical issue in this election. McCain has made it perfectly clear that he wants to appoint judges like Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito. Appointments of those types will take this country back 100 years.
McCain has been wrong on Iraq by voting to go into a war we never should have undertaken. He was wrong on Afghanistan which remains the home of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden because of the U. S.’s refusal to finish the job there, the headquarters of the terrorists operation has been given time to rebuild and to recruit a totally new body of followers.
McCain is not a liberal and Obama is not a left-wing radical. When Kennedy was president some people who cannot tell right from left or liberal from conservative, labeled him Liberal. John Kennedy leaned to the right more than most Americans believed or understood. For Hillary people to call McCain liberal is an illustration of unmitigated misunderstanding of the meaning of the word.
To have a Democratic controlled Congress and McCain in the White House will accomplish nothing and therefore does nothing but delay for four more years at the very least, the kind of change and progress we so desperately need.
As Mrs. Clinton said, “The differences between Barack Obama and myself pale in comparison with John McCain (McBush)”. You don’t seem to support the issues that Hillary ran on. You don’t seem to respect her call to support the Democratic Party. If you think that John McBush acts to the left and talks to the right, you need to check his voting record? He voted 95% of the time with his party’s leader George Bush.”
One Hillary supporter on the blog Blood Thirsty Liberals made this very perceptive comment: “May God have mercy on this nation if we elect McCain. And for the record I’m a HRC supporter to the end, thus I support the candidate SHE SUPPORTS, DURRRRR. I’m not going to destroy for 8 years everything Hillary had hoped”
One issue that surprises me is the insistence by several die-hard Hillary supporters that she won the popular vote. Dear Friends the only way for Hillary to win the popular vote is to count the votes in the Florida and Michigan and the only way to count the votes of those two states was to rerun the primary.
Remember this: it is the states that determine whether the primary will be repeated because they have to bear the cost of the replay.
Obama’s name was not on the Michigan ballot because he and all other serious candidates followed the dictates of the Democratic National Committee—Hillary flaunted that edict and thereby voided any votes she received in an illegal primary.
Obama could not remove his name from the Florida ballot, but agreed not to campaign there and thus was placed in a vulnerable position.
Because these two states violated the Party’s ruling and changed the dates of their primaries they defiled the Democratic National Committee’s right to run their primaries as they wish.
Those Hillary supporters who believe for one moment that Obama is another Jimmy Carter are simply wrong. When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama she said that for the first time since her father was assassinated she has found a candidate in Obama who was just like her father. You Hillary loyalists know as well as I do that the daughter of one our greatest presidents knows better than we who is like her father and who is not.
Another key point for PUMA and JUST SAY NO DEAL, instead of focusing on Rev. Wright and Tony Rezko you should look into McCain’s scandal labeled the KEATING FIVE its contribution to the Savings and Loan fiasco. McCain was involved up to his eyebrows. While you are at it you should take a look at McCain affair with a wealthy young woman while his wife was dying.
After an extensive investigation by the same Republican Prosecutor who prosecuted Scooter Libby, found Obama was not involved in any way in the Rezko indignity. For a Democrat to even bring up the scandal in my opinion is a nearly unforgivable sin.
And for those who wish to know what enhanced the Islamic fundamentalists, look at Reagan’s order to pull our troops out of Lebanon after our base there had been attacked. The Islamists claim that when our soldiers left after the attack on American barracks, they realized that the U. S. was a paper tiger. Carter did not handle the Iran hostage affair in the way it should be handled, but that was not the source of the growth of al Qaeda and the increased influence of Osama bin Laden. Real Democrats would know that.
For a true Democrat to support John McCain who so adamantly “opposes the views that you (as a Democrat) supposedly support…out of vengeance for a perceived slight, is just mind boggling,” according to one blogger writing on Bloodthirsty Liberal.
And finally, if you “feel more comfortable with McCain’ then you are not a Democrat, you are simply confused. You have to understand that there are millions of Democrats who were not going to vote for Hillary, who do not like Hillary and like her less now that she could not or did not run a professional campaign.
I was a former Clinton supporter. I supported her husband during the fraudulent attacks on him by Ken Starr and the right-wing of the Republican Party including McCain who voted for impeachment. I gave money to Hillary’s campaign and supported her until the primaries started. However, I know Obama because he is our Senator here in Illinois and when I first heard him speak and saw that massive turn out he drew, I was converted. He is the closest thing to JFK that has run on the Democratic ticket in my life time.
If you are a Democrat and are even considering voting for John McCain you suffer from short term memory loss.
You have forgotten he voted for and still supports a war that should never have been waged.
You have forgotten the Bush/McCain tax cut for the rich which has thrown our nation into a deep deficit that makes us a debtor nation beholden to China, South Korea, Japan, etc..
You have forgotten that McCain opposes universal health care, wants to privatize Social Security and Medicare, and appoint judges to the Supreme and other Federal Courts with the anachronistic mind-set of Scalia.
You have forgotten that John McCain has endorsed every policy that George W. Bush initiated, in other words, he wants to give us four more years of Bush which the United States of American simply cannot afford.
And most importantly, his unwavering support for the war in Iraq calls into question the veracity of his judgment on matters relating to national security, the war on terrorism and certainly his understanding of economic issues vital to saving this country from bankruptcy.
With over 70% of the American people believing that this once great nation is headed in the wrong direction, short term memory loss could be fatal.
To be honest I am extremely annoyed with PUMA and JUST SAY NO DEAL. If you people play any role in Obama’s defeat, you will be to blame for the loss of one of the potential great presidents and for this country to live through four more years of disaster. I will not soon forget.
And to be quite forthright, I believe both groups were initiated by the Republican Party and John McCain supporters. God help you!
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