MEDIA Presence of PUMA and “Just Say No” to Obama [Video Update of Will Bowers]
By SusanUnPC on June 15, 2008 at 6:10 PM in Barack Obama, Bolshevikization, DNC, Delegates, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Dems4McCain, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean
Diane Mantouvalos talks to Fox News’s Neil Cavuto about party unity, PUMA (which stands for “Party Unity My Ass”), and justsaynodeal.com. Mr. Cavuto has been especially welcoming to those of us who hold steadfast to nominating Hillary Clinton as the more qualified candidate. This video was posted, by V, on our No Quarter channel at YouTube:
OF NOTE: Tomorrow morning (Monday), Will Bowers of PUMA08.com will be interviewed by MSNBC’s Monica Novotny at 11:30 a.m. I have seen Will interviewed on other programs, and he is an articulate spokesperson — as is Diane — for our arguments and our cause. VIDEO UPDATE of Will Bowers on Neil Cavuto’s program this past week, just below:
We have a VIDEO UPDATE that features both Will Bowers (appearing tomorrow morning at 11:30 a.m. ET on MSNBC) and Thuc Nguyen, 32, a graduate student at the University of California (who is featured in the second article quoted below):
Here are a couple snippets from news articles about Will Bowers and his PUMA efforts:
Will Bower is known as the person who had created the group known as “Party Unity My A—“ (PUMA), after Senator Hillary Clinton of New York had lost the Democratic nomination. The ongoing contest between Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois had created a rift within the Democratic Party. The ruling by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) had left many supporters for Clinton bitter and frustrated.
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McCain did not hesitate to go after the Clinton supporters. Will Bower, the founder of PUMA; wants Clinton in office. Bower would not settle for Obama. Instead, Bower has openly said he will support McCain.
Bower has formed PUMA to get other frustrated Clinton supporters to make a stance. This stance is to keep Obama from winning the US Presidency. Bower is not just angry at Obama, he is angry at the whole Democratic Party. …
Read all from the article in the Digital Journal.
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Hillary Clinton’s official acknowledgment of defeat and call for party unity finally came yesterday, but William Bower wanted none of it.
A Clinton supporter and contributor for whom voting Democratic comes as natural as breathing, Mr Bower very nearly refused to attend the announcement. He knew Mrs Clinton was going to ask him to do what he considered unthinkable: support Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
“I don’t want to hear her say that, and I know she will,” he said before the event, which was held in the National Building Museum in Washington. “I don’t want to be told to vote for Obama.”
“I love her, and I would do 95 per cent of what she’d ask,” Mr Bower said. But not that.
How many Democrats there are like Mr Bower is Mr Obama’s newest worry after a passionate primary that, while bringing out millions of new Democrats, also split the party in two. Both Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton each got nearly 18 million votes.
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“In the hearts of her ardent supporters, we know she’s the best one this time or 2012, which is why we’re willing to put [Senator John] McCain in for four years and [then] have another go at it,” said Thuc Nguyen, 32, a graduate student at the University of California who is part of a burgeoning group known as PUMA, which stands for Party Unity My A—.
Another organisation, HillaryGrassrootsCampaign.com, is urging her to continue running for president, as an independent. “Why vote for McCain or Obama, when you can vote for Hillary!” the website says. “Our mission is to keep our eye on the prize and that prize is having Hillary in the White House,” said Robin Carlson, a spokesman for that group.
Another group, WriteHillaryIn.com, wants people to do just that on the ballot in those states that allow it.
Pam Hamilton, a Clinton supporter who works in sales in Medford, Oregon, and who started a website called ClintonDems, said a lot of women are feeling the four words about party unity that gave PUMA its acronym. She, and others, talk of Mr Obama in terms of inexperience and lack of substance, while complaining of unfair treatment of Mrs Clinton, both by the Democratic National Committee and by the media.
Ms Hamilton suggested she was not sure whom she will vote for – “My dream is that somehow Hillary gets on the ticket” – or whether she will even vote. But the longer she talked, the more it seemed she already had made up her mind. “With neither of them really appealing to my sensibilities, I have to look at who’s more experienced and who do I feel most comfort with, and it’s John McCain,” she said. “We know him.”
It is unclear what effect the PUMA crowd will have in November, if any, but its ranks are mobilising. Ms Nguyen helped launch last week what she described as the group’s official website, gopumaparty.com, although there are several ad hoc offshoots. …
Read all at the The National.
by Ronald Scott
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