{"id":7955,"date":"2011-04-19T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:35:33","slug":"figure-out-pumas-at-your-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/04\/19\/figure-out-pumas-at-your-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"figure out pumas at your peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of the 2008 election, I looked over to see what that constituency of &#8220;PUMA&#8221;s &#8212; or what of them exist &#8212; were saying upon the election of Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw a gleeful crunching of numbers to rationalize Obama&#8217;s victory as pyrrhic, inevitably a one termer (or less, what with the Chicago corruption that lead to that stolen nomination) &#8212; the victory coming from depressed Republican turnout, and I &#8212; a lifetime Democrat &#8212; just cast my proudest vote ever for McCain and Palin, the latter in opposition to Obama in demonstrating where the two candidates stand on Women&#8217;s Equality.\u00c2\u00a0 Add in conspicuous links to free republic sites and world net daily &#8212; which is an alliance that will come back to bite these PUMAs on the back.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet can aggregate anyone of any interest.\u00c2\u00a0 This page here, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypuma.blogspot.com\/\">Hm<\/a>, a &#8220;PUMA blog aggregator&#8221;, looks about what you would imagine.\u00c2\u00a0 Like the Howard Dean blogs at the end of his nomination, only taken through past the November election.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess they have these <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/442669\/clintonclinton-2012-you-guys\">Clinton ads to create<\/a>, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.tv\/new-documentary-charges-obama-stole-nomination-from-hillary\/\">documentaries to make<\/a> &#8212; all outside the scope of anything Hillary Clinton is interested in doing,\u00c2\u00a0 (Allegedly).<\/p>\n<p>The PUMA aggregagor is, politically, all over the place. &#8220;That is the PUMA way&#8221;, the top of this page says &#8212; before popping out a link to &#8220;Inside Job&#8221; (an indictment of the system which heaps as much scorn on the Clinton administration as everyone else), and a page against gun violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailypuma.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/overheard-during-seattle-mariners-vs.html\">Item<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>You  had to see it to appreciate it. Before the start of the seventh inning  Seattle Mariners vs Cleveland Indians baseball game the roving reporter had a Felix Hernandez bobblehead to give away.  The contest between mom and daughter was to name all of the presidents in a row.<\/em><br \/>\nThe  two knew all the presidents and they sang them out in unison in a sort  of sing songy way. At the very end, they yelled out Barack Obama very  loudly, giddy that they were done.<br \/>\nThe  reporter then asked them who would be the next president in 2012, and  after a relatively short pause, mom says, &#8220;Clinton again.&#8221; Probably  referring to Bill&#8217;s better half. But how can that be when our own cable  news media is so polarized to the far left and far right, leaving the  vast huge middle of the country unrepresented?<\/p>\n<p>Self styled &#8220;Centrist&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tough gambit. About as tough as watching the Mariners and seeing their pitching staff and Ichiro being wasted on historically anemic offenses.\u00c2\u00a0 But skip here to\u00c2\u00a0 see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailypuma.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/pumas-who-dont-care-about-home.html\">Item:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>So  if you know PUMA&#8217;s who don&#8217;t think the home mortgage issue  is of  importance, they are not real PUMAs, since this was a core  Hillary  Clinton campaign issue. I recently defriended an alleged well  known PUMA  who had no time to ever view Daily PUMA, and claimed my  Swarm the Banks blog was pointless.<\/em><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a certain logic to this portion on the page &#8212; toss up a Greenwald column while you are at it.\u00c2\u00a0 But before we get too commondreamsy on you, we ask: is CATO PUMA?\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been siphoned into this page, see, on this page:<\/p>\n<p><em>CATO INSTITUTE DISAGREES WITH THE STIMULUS PACKAGE, CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE FULL SIZE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OR:<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=7363028n&amp;tag=contentMain;contentBody\">Paul  Ryan on CBS.<\/a> He is the man.<\/em><br \/>\ner?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailypuma.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/ladder-to-moon-by-barack-obamas-half.html\">ITEM:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>One  of my biggest pet peeves against Barack Obama was that he  was writing  his tribute book about his sperm donor father in the early  90&#8217;s in Bali,  even as his mother was being diagnosed and fighting  cancer in Hawaii.  Barack Obama literally had to fly over where his  mother was fighting  cancer in Hawaii to go Bali.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I  have not been able to find an actual exact Timeline of  Barack Obama&#8217;s  book writing in Bali and his mother&#8217;s battle with cancer  in Hawaii, but  even if the book was barely finished when Stanley Ann  Dunham was first  diagnosed with cancer, isn&#8217;t it odd that a book about  his deadbeat and  passed father was of such priority that he could not  find the time to  fight for the life of his still living mother?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seems like personal animus.\u00c2\u00a0 Might be what holds this together, but I go back to seeing the snippets of free republic pages and see the &#8220;What the heck?&#8221; come back to bite them with this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailypuma.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/american-thinker-daily-puma-hardly-knew.html\">\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfItem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div><em>What a vile vile website American Thinker is.  The comments section regarding Hillary Clinton are soooo deranged,  off you go from Daily PUMA. On top of that, someone from American  Thinker actually checked out dailypuma because I put a link to it within  my comment that I left in your comments section, but my comment never  ran. So whomever reviewed my comment chose not to run it.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>bye  bye American Thinker, you worthless pile of crap.  And your commenters  are among the dumbest in the land. If I ever felt Daily PUMA readers  were even half as dumb as yours, I&#8217;d shut it down. Not only are the  HIllary Clinton commenters vile, stupid and depraved people, it&#8217;s the  PERCENTAGE of the comments that were universally squalid that I found  most memorable.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>How  malignant are these commenters at American Thinker in regards to  Hillary Clinton? If Hillary Clinton discovered the cure for cancer,  those idiots would probably take less than a minute to accuse her of  creating cancer in the first place, that&#8217;s  how deranged they are.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>It begs the question: the operators of this website do have a historical memory that stretches back to Bill Clinton&#8217;s term and the epithets your Rush Limbaughs and the type of people who write on the American Thinker were throwing around about Hillary Clinton, don&#8217;t they?\u00c2\u00a0 Before 2008, everything they have on Clinton comes across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2007\/09\/hillary_clinton_i_will_change.html\">like they&#8217;d say about Obama<\/a> &#8212; even if they can bop over to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/09\/hillary_clintons_campaign_for.html\"> intermural party conflicts after 2008<\/a>.<em> <\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But. then again&#8230; s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillarynme.com\/2011\/04\/19\/jan-brewer-vetos-birther-bill-the-right-decision-for-the-wrong-reasons\/\">he&#8217;s a Hillary Clinton fan<\/a>, into PUMA:<br \/>\n<em>Jan Brewer vetos &#8220;Birther Bill&#8221;&#8216; the right decision for the wrong reasons<\/em><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryis44.org\/2011\/04\/18\/donald-trump-and-the-power-of-courage-and-truth\">AND<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Years late, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re finally getting an audit of Obama 2008. Perhaps it is  that courage is contagious and Donald Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two-fist attacks  on Obama are bringing Obama opponents out of the woodwork \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but something is  happening to raise the level of truth-telling. Michelle Bachman, usually not a  shrinking violet, is all of a sudden talking birth certificate. Bachman  says she is going to bring her birth certificate to the first Republican  debate.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>This will dominate as long as this page exists.\u00c2\u00a0 As well the Sarah Palin love.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of the 2008 election, I looked over to see what that constituency of &#8220;PUMA&#8221;s &#8212; or what of them exist &#8212; were saying upon the election of Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw a gleeful crunching of numbers to rationalize Obama&#8217;s victory as pyrrhic, inevitably a one termer (or less, what with the Chicago corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}