So Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in cahoots to pull the wool over PUMAs’ eyes by staging a meaningless roll call in an elaborate show of fake unity at the convention.
“I am convinced that honoring Sen. Clinton’s historic campaign in this way will help us celebrate this defining moment in our history and bring the party together in a strong united fashion,” said Obama, an Illinois senator.
Added Clinton, D-N.Y.: “With every voice heard and the party strongly united, we will elect Sen. Obama president of the United States and put our nation on the path to peace and prosperity once again.”
Are they kidding? If either or both camps and their captains actually think some kind of “shaux” (faux show) is going to satisfy people who honestly believe Obuhbuh to be a piss poor candidate, either, both or all of them are nuttier than a leftover box of decades old fruitcake. Nobody wants having Senator Clinton’s name being placed in nomination to be a merely “symbolic” gesture. We want a fight!
You’d think these “associates,” “surrogates,” and “sources close to…” would understand what they’re up against and try really hard not to piss people off. But, you’d be wrong. Take Donnie Fowler, who doesn’t want a roll call, for instance:
South Carolina superdelegate Donald Fowler is an early and staunch Clinton supporter who has switched to support Obama since Clinton dropped from the contest. Fowler told CQ Politics that entering Clinton’s name at the convention would be a mistake and would present the appearance of a divided party.
“It would be the wrong thing to do by anybody’s definition. … I think Senator Clinton should be honored … but I think that it would absolutely the wrong thing to do and I think she should discourage her supporters from doing that,” he said Wednesday, before the decision had been announced.
This is the same clueless guy who sent out a pissy, open email to all us bitter holdouts about a month ago.
I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people who continue to carp, complain, and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support.
However, some people seem to think this sham is a good idea. Like turncoat, just-shy-of-Judas-status-like-Richardson, Lanny Davis, who claims Clinton will not only vote for, but personally nominate her rival.
“I think it’s a perfect solution,” said Davis, who went to Yale Law School with the Clintons and was a special counsel to former President Clinton.
“We are absolutely committed to electing Barack Obama and this is the best way to do it so let people have their moment,” Davis said. “Sen. Clinton will assure that nothing will occur that will hinder Sen. Obama ’s chances but even more will help him by when it comes time for her vote, by voting for him and by moving at the convention to nominate Sen. Obama by acclamation.”
Davis said Clinton will have “no sympathy” for some of her supporters who pledge to continue to try to get her nominated at the convention.
Oh, really, Lanny? Well, if you and HRC truly feel that way, you can both stuff it. My fellow PUMAs and I want a real, open, brokered convention and will continue to work to make that happen. We love the idea of a roll call and having Senator Clinton’s name placed in nomination, but only if she can have a fair and honest chance to be elected and right the wrong being perpetrated by those who are forcibly trying to foist a green candidate on us just because he’s black. The hope that this will come to pass gives us joy, but the suspicion that it won’t will probably cause you, Senators Clinton and Obama, as well as the DNC, a whole lot of pain come November. And you can all ride your phony unity pony to the bank on that.
PUMA
Just Say No Deal
