She should have stayed a PUMA (till November)

Singer who supported Hillary expresses
Buyer Remorse” after eventually voting for Obama

B0bot apologizes to ol’ PUMAs

I had quite a few apologies posted here since Jr.jr showed his true colors to all.

I wanted to mark this  because (almost) all the right words were said

and dedicating a whole blog to it is cool.

Here is the apology

By way of an apology, I dedicate this site to all those whose opinions and experience I wasn’t willing to consider during the 2008 Democratic Primary season; to all of the Democrats who opposed an Obama nomination I apologize. To all of those Democrats whom I considered too old, too dumb, too unenlightened, too female, too poor, too uneducated, too conservative… I most humbly apologize. I have been put in my place. You were right. You were right and I’m on your side now. Oh, and thank you!

You may want to go there and respond.

P.S – I used ol’ PUMAS in the title for brevity sake, and snark . Ol’PUMA was also meant in historical context – PUMAs standing up to  the thieves of the primary and the corporate Obama.

Present days PUMAs have became too ambiguous a tent for me to be under it.

I guess what our new friend needs to acknowledge next is the electoral fraud they chose to ignore/be too comfortable with. Then maybe some meaningful resistance, activism can be renewed.

The angry white woman – misogyny will be used again politically

Appropriatedly named Talking point memo  is issuing a new meme based on a Quinnipiac poll

Poll: Tea Party Is The Home Of The Angry White Woman

Just in time to counteract headlines such as

Obama To Host Pro-Life Dems For Abortion Executive Order Signing

There’s a recount of th long history of this Romneycare passing in WaPo. A small passage about Stupak caught my attention

The women became furious. Voices were raised. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), a close friend of Pelosi’s, lamented about “all the women we were just throwing under the bus” and called it “a betrayal of all the women that had fought for this for so long.” Pelosi, according to two participants, had tears in her eyes. But she got the votes — that time.

The ladies quickly got over it though and sold the rest of us. Now we have a Supak EO and everyone is happy.

And now, that the women Democrats have been silenced (it’s just symbolic, ya know), the tea party is blamed on women because

55% are women, while just 45% are men.

and only later we get told that this is the usual percentage for all political parties

As for the gender breakdown, the 55% female majority puts the tea party movement in line with other political parties, with the exception of independents. That group is more male than female by a margin of 54-46.

But the opportunity presents itself to nail the bitches, so why not?

I don’t know how many PUMAs joined the tea party – I know some did and that’s when I removed my own affiliation with PUMA to avoid confusion.

I do however see an ugly backlash in this headline, a return to the misogynistic days of the 2008 elections.

Be careful what you wish for. I had just written a fer days ago that being ignored is even worse than being maligned in the last election.

In fact, they talk about it in B0botland and all old slurs are back

. Angry (and I would bet, extremely uneducated) OLDER white women

I would love to see the educational level correlates. I am betting that this is a consequence of many decades of diminishing high school graduation rates during these older women’s lives (and increasing divorce rates) with the accompanying decimation of future opportunities. Just my hunch, but a good one, I think 9. Shouldn’t that be OLD angry white woman? And stupid?

Yeah. The gut hatred is back. That coupled with the hint of race bait in the “White” shall drive the November elections. At least from the B0bots POV.

Update

Only a few days later, here comes a Gallup poll demolishing that factoid

Tea Party supporters are decidedly Republican and conservative in their leanings. Also, compared with average Americans, supporters are slightly more likely to be male and less likely to be lower-income.

Gallup has the numbers reversed from Quinnipiac: (second row represents percentages of US adults)

55% men, 45 women.

But then again, all polls are manufactured reality. Gallup just wanted to make a different point than Quinnipiac.

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Tabloids: Stimulus fail and helping Reid

In NY it’s wall to wall Tiger, with nearly identical sexist headlines so elsewhere news

From DC we find out that yet another Hillary country is going red – Obama split the party but good with his “new base”. Ah, and the stimulus didn’t create jobs

The Express in DC makes the same point – a bit more dramatically

while in Nevada, there’s not exactly joy at Obama’s visit. Air space will be rationed so Obama can help Reid, so tour operators will miss their livelihood

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and the Sun reminds us – in an ominous tone how Obama and Reid have tied their political fates to each other

and the Mayor of Las Vegas is still pissed

Goodman: Obama needs to ‘straighten out’ what he said about Las Vegas

Las Vegas Mayor says he won’t meet with president until the matter is settled

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Should have voted for Hillary

Not quite that headline but close

Hillary backers left to question Dems’ decision

The article appeared in Metro papers in NY and Philadelphia

But now that the influence of their “messiah” — President Barack Obama — proved not to be enough to keep the Senate seat of longtime liberal Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy out of Republican control, some are left with a burning question: What was I thinking voting for Obama?

“I definitely should have voted for Hillary!” bemoaned Phyllis Entis on her foodie blog at eFoodAlert.blogspot.com.

“Yes, you should have,” responded a reader in the comments portion of the blog. “She knows how to get things done and isn’t afraid to use her power. We would have universal health care by now if she were in the Oval.”

Yeah, we were racist, old, uneducated, frustrated feminists and a few names I can’t print here

I can’t believe I can now read “Hillary backers” without the usual insult attached to it

“She didn’t dance around the issues,” “Bill” posted to ThePoliticizer.com. “She never would have let Republicans get away with their antics. Dare I say it: Hillary ’12!”

I don’t dare – not with yesterday’s SCOTUS decision. The Mass election may be the last one where votes mattered.

I can only say