How does it feel?
Not as painful as the past 2 stolen elections. Far less indeed.
Is it because my skin got thicker? or rather my personal stake smaller?
I wasΒ not an enthusiastic voter in 2000. But seeing the theft on TV, in front of my eyes, it awoke me politically – to a world of pain. I wish to “unknow” what I did find out – butΒ I couldn’t.
2004 – A far less progressive candidate, benefiting of far more activists support, boasting that he’ll fight against a potential steal. He failed to do so.
2008 – A candidate financed and propped by Bushco, manages to present himself as progressive, gets more support than both Gore and Kerry combined plus the Bush media who Gores his opponents. People who supported him are deluded that they accomplished some sort of revolution. By bringing us …Cheney’s cousin.They are right now screaming outside “Obama!!!”
(I was reminded of that relationship when Cheney found it necessary to endorse McCain days before the election – whom exactly did he think that would help?)
Anyway, I didn’t have a candidate in this election since June (and maybe, never).
That made the disappointment far easier to take.
My guy said that if McCain won, he’s enjoy it for about 5 minutesΒ – for the idea that the voters foiled the machine. I had to admit, I would have gone for a whole …10 minutes.
So, what do I miss? Those 10 minutes?
I am disappointed there wasn’t more of us to affect the election – though we’ll never know the real numbers – as I mistrust the count.
But so we are few in numbers. Does this make us less right?
Truth is not democratic. A majority can be wrong, and one single person can hold the truth.
I was a “ten percenter” in 2001 when 90% were “supporting Bush”. I stayed still and became part of the majority as most came to my way of thinking. I see this happening again in the near future.
34 comments
November 5, 2008 at 1:41 am
LastPlaneOut
Nice try, but PUMAs are done.
They never existed.
I have spent every day of the last 5 months thwarting Darragh’s Legion of Lost Typists.
Every prowl she organized, I got there first. I warned the media and the politicos that you were coming for them. I helped Roland Martin at CNN duck you. I telegraphed your email swarms to every targeted delegate and superdelegate at Denver. I have an inbox full of “Thank you” letters from PUMA targets who listened to me and dumped your message swarms into unused voicemail accounts and fax machines in the utility closet.
I have fought you on the HuffingtonPost, US News and a dozen other media outlets. I have blocked your disinformation at every turn, bombed your YouTube videos, pretended to be your friend in Denver and spoofed you in a thousand ways.
There aren’t 18 million of you, as tonight’s election proves. Hell, there doesn’t seem to be ANY of you, based on the vote. You’ve been living a fantasy.
Tonight, I am — like Lou Gehrig — the happiest man on the face of the earth,
Bravo, President Barack Hussein Obama.
And good luck, PUMAs, at whatever the hell it is you plan on doing now, at the fringes of American politics.
November 5, 2008 at 1:42 am
Pappyhappyclinger
It was an honor to stand with you.
The future will bring what it brings.
Let us look foward to happier days.
November 5, 2008 at 1:49 am
Pappyhappyclinger
Lastplaneout – “I … pretended to be your friend in Denver and spoofed you in a thousand ways.”
You people rejoice in what should shame you.
You are devoid of even and understanding of decency.
Thank you for warning me of who and what you people are.
November 5, 2008 at 2:00 am
edgeoforever
Last Plane
If we never existed – how could you “fight us” “foil us” “pretend to befriend us”? Who is deluded here?
Also, this is for you
https://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/i-was-saving-this-graphic-for-this-outcome/
November 5, 2008 at 2:12 am
LastPlaneOut
OK, I admit I had to fight all THREE of you. ;->
November 5, 2008 at 2:21 am
edgeoforever
Oh, you brave little soldier – you single handedly vanquished the 3 of us? Good little B0bot!
November 5, 2008 at 2:27 am
LastPlaneOut
And what did YOU do?
Did you win the primary for Hillary?
Did you pay off her debt?
Did you win in Denver?
Did you produce your documentary?
Did you defeat Obama?
Guess not.
November 5, 2008 at 2:38 am
Grail Guardian
No, but I did waste your time “every day of the last 5 months”, so I guess that counts for something, dickhead.
So now what are you going to do? Who will you torment and torture now for a living? Hmm?
Guess you might be in trouble now that your parents have lost their life savings and are going to be taxed out the ass for everything. They won’t be able to support your worthless ass and buy you shiny things anymore. What a friggin’ shame.
But I guess it was worth it to prove that 3 people didn’t really exist.
Congratulations! I just posted your picture on Wikipedia next to the entry for moron.
November 5, 2008 at 2:43 am
LastPlaneOut
In a word, you’ve done nothing, and your whole movement has been a farce.
There are no PUMAs.
…especially after tonight.
Thanks for playing! We have lovely parting gifts for you.
November 5, 2008 at 3:10 am
LastPlaneOut
Guardian:
I’m 53 years old and I make a great living as a freelance writer…which just happens to give me the freedom to fuck over every small dream Darragh Murphy will ever have. Petty, perhaps, but wicked good fun!
And I don’t give a rat’s ass about taxes, ’cause I’ll never feel them.
November 5, 2008 at 5:11 am
Deja_Vu
My goodness, Last Plane, I feel sorry for you. 55 years old and still demanding affirmation of your existence. Somehow I think Darragh and the other two PUMA’s will survive your, well, whatever you’re doing, just fine.
Edgeofforever, they just can’t stand that we won’t just sit down and shut up, all three of us, LOL!
We knew that spending a billion dollars and having the news media in his pocket would give Obama a good chance to buy the presidency. Now we can sit back and watch while Last Plane’s BFF becomes the most unpopular president since Bush. Too bad, our country deserves much better.
November 5, 2008 at 6:24 am
Stray Yellar Dawg
Well, first I am going to change my registration to “independent.”
Then, maybe I’ll quit my job so I can stay home and wait for the sparkly baubles and pretty ponies to arrive. (Just kidding…. haha.)
After that…. I’ll find a downticket person that I can believe in, probably a woman, and work my butt off to get her elected. For many years now I have believed that we can really only affect change at the local level anyways.
National elections are always a charade. We are sold a corporate candie date. Being gullible and vulnerable to press manipulation (as Americans are) we simply can’t help ourselves. That’s the way it is. Whoever wins is already bought and paid for.
As far as Obie’s presidency goes… the only thing left is to hope that benevolent and wise corporations have bought and paid for him. (Doubtful, I’ll admit. But no more so than the sparkly baubles and pretty ponies. )
November 5, 2008 at 6:33 am
Stray Yellar Dawg
Oh, yeah… and the GOOD NEWS!
Many fine NEW, moderate, Clinton Dems have taken seats in my district:
Denise Driehaus
Steve Driehaus
Jerry Metz
Connie Pillich
All my hard work for them paid off!
November 5, 2008 at 7:20 am
edgeoforever
What did I do, Last Plane? What did we PUMAs do? Something that means little to you: we stayed true to ourselves, we maintained integrity and our principles. We still believe that say, FISA is fascistic and Blackwater didn’t get a bad wrap. I know, in the “post partisan society” this is fringe, but not to me. And we even won the primary for Hillary – Who knows? Some day history may even acknowledge this.
November 5, 2008 at 8:07 am
W. Lotus
That is a marvelous graphic. Where did you get it?
I am a PUMA, and I am here to stay. π
November 5, 2008 at 8:16 am
Mountainaires
I see the triumphalist fascists in the BObot Party don’t consider being magnanimous in victory to be one of their values. Says a lot about them; says a lot more about their dear leader, a man who will now demand compliance from journalists who cover him. A freelance “writer” who doesn’t believe in the First Amendment is a twisted perversion, isn’t it? A 53 year old man who believes his keyboard commando life is real, is a troubled, isolated and sad individual indeed.
November 5, 2008 at 8:24 am
LastPlaneOut
You are “the ones no one respected.”
November 5, 2008 at 8:59 am
Judy R
LastPlaneOut–you are coming in for a crash soon, when you see Obama is not who you think he is.
November 5, 2008 at 9:29 am
LastPlaneOut
LAST DAY TO BE A PUMA!
Don’t forget to buy your “I PROWLED EVERY DAY FOR 6 MONTHS AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT!” t-shirt. Essential outerwear for the Post-PUMA Age!
November 5, 2008 at 10:16 am
Deja_Vu
We know you have no friends, Last Plane. Sucks to be you. I was here in Denver and standing nearby when you made you vid.
I’d say your physical appearance matches exactly the persona you display here. So, it’s no wonder you’re lonely.
Maybe when you admit that deep down you wish you had the cognitive acumen to be a PUMA, you’ll be able to repair your damaged self.
I have plenty of friends and family who didn’t vote O, and they’re not even PUMA’s. We will continue to watch him closely, because he is destined to screw up, big time.
And, now, the best part.
The MSM has already started talking about how impossible it will be for him acheive anything of importance. And, saying some lovely things about Sarah,as well.
Looking at the red on the electoral map, they now have tangible evidence that Obie’s billion dollars didn’t buy everyone, not by a long shot.
I’m feeling quite a bit better this morning, myself. π
November 5, 2008 at 11:16 am
DeniseVB
LastPlaneOut just affirmed what’s going to be wrong with the Obama Adminstration.
Gonna suck big time when that kool aid hangover kicks in, huh?
I’m glad I’m not you LPO, reality is, you’ve been punked π
November 5, 2008 at 11:31 am
okasha skatsi
LOL–Last Planet.
I’m a free-lance writer, a real one. I don’t know a single person in the profession who has time to waste on spamming the net just to make his tiny little self feel bigger.
Besides, a real writer could have made up a better back story. Now go do your homework.
November 5, 2008 at 11:31 am
Cullen
IOf Last Plane Out is such a happy camper, at peace with the win, what’s the point in being so nasty?
I thought the sun was rising in sparkly purple today, cats and dogs will forever live in harmony, everyone is holding hands and signing, and there are no more wars, or economic crises, and everything is perfect now.
Instead? Plane come here and just confirms the ugly arrogance we’ve been complaining about.
So that means what exactly? That we were right?
Fabulous.
November 5, 2008 at 1:19 pm
edgeoforever
Last Plane Out
We are the one that respected themselves. How do you feel about ignoring the FISA vote? The “refinement” of the Iraq withdrawal?
The “Blackwater got a bad rap” statement from your candidate? How much do you respect yourself for glossing over that stuff? (assuming you are a “progressive”)
November 5, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Alice Paul
From August to today was a short amount of time with very little funds. I’m proud of what was done and was able to be done. We after all didn’t have a billions of dollars machine behind us. We didn’t have fawning year long media.
It’s a decent start. Next steps. Obama divides and from what he managed to accomplish in Chicago we can’t expect much from him as POTUS.
I thought people wanted Bush out. We got the dem version of Bush.
November 5, 2008 at 4:23 pm
DeniseVB
Alice Paul – I so agree, Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff proves your point….Bush’s Third Term π¦
November 5, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Janet Mc
I am proud to be PUMA. I voted Republican for the first time in my life. We will wait to see the scandals and the ineptitude of the Obama administration. It will be worse than GW Bush 3. When GW Bush became President, the country was in good shape. Now it’s a mess and the country just elected someone with no accomplishments and no experience. What a mess.
November 5, 2008 at 8:21 pm
pacific-cali
if “last planet out” truly felt any superiority, he wouldn’t have felt the need to reveal so many pathetic personal details.
I knew a kid like this back in school – had this kind of pathetic desperation to be noticed at all costs. He got beat up a lot – he deliberately provoked it. He’d get this creepy look in his eyes like he got a thrill out of the beatings. Truly creepy stuff…. – years later found out that the guy was a child predator. I was not the least bit surprised.
– anyway this “last planet” guy made me think of that guy for the first time in 20 years.
November 5, 2008 at 10:08 pm
morninmist
LastPlane. you are talking to puma’s but you say there are none. what a wittle joke you are.
typical obot who makes no sense at all.
November 5, 2008 at 10:34 pm
papau
LastPlaneOut ? I was with Deja_Vu in Denver – with the dozen males among the 500 females that flew into town to protest. You did nothing in Denver and you know it. Why do you think your assertions will be believed on this site? This is not Democraticunderground – DU is assertion heaven – but here folks want proof – and you are all hot air as we both know. THC and I had more media contact that week than you will ever have in a lifetime – who the hell did you contact because those media folk that responded to our contacts never mentioned you.
Man – DU mental illness cases do pop up posting on PUMA sites – and since there are a few hundred such sites, you folks are busy. The only proper response to the mentally ill like yourself is to offer to help you get help – and to pity you when you do not get that help.
Good luck – say hello to the children on DU and give them my wish that they outgrow their hate (75% of AA’s voted to decrease Gay civil rights in California – Obama is leading a sick army).
November 6, 2008 at 5:52 am
papau
LastPlaneOut? – You appear to want a number for the size of the PUMA movement. I suggest you look at the final polls where 20% of Hillary’s 20 million chose to not vote Democratic in the end – that’s 4 million PUMAs if math is hard for you.
a switch of 3 million votes and Obama loses the popular vote – meaning without Hillary convincing 80% of her supporters – 16 million primary voters – to support Obama, he loses.
Obama should get down on his knees and start kissing her ass because she allowed him to become President – despite what that does to her chances in 2012.
As it turned out the 55% Hillary victory that was projected (at least by me) is only a 52.3% victory by Obama – because of the PUMAs.
You and DU are fools that do not see the truth – but I will not go over to DU to educate you – I chose to avoid cesspools of hate and lies.
November 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm
creeper
By golly, plane, you’re right. You stole it fair and square. Good luck.
November 6, 2008 at 4:31 pm
IronMyShirt
Papau…how’s the fundraiser goin’ you broke-ass nitwit?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Good luck raising money at caphill…all the gals there are on SSI for their mental problems and have little to spare.
Oh, you can’t ‘go over’ to DU…you were shitcanned.
Remember?
June 23, 2009 at 10:45 am
Chief Editor Korir's Mom
I release tape now?