Hillary Tells PUMA 'No Deal'

Where are you PUMA? Please explain.

Tommy Christopher,

Excellent job. I had mentioned in my comments recently that I felt her denouncing PUMAPAC would add to their legitimacy and turn attention toward them. I admire her restraint.

She is politically savvy and in no way wants the Democrats to lose the White House this fall. I know the anger that PUMA supporters feel after she lost the nomination and I was poised to vote for McCain. She got shafted on several fronts. But, it is in neither her best interest nor my best interests to vote for Sen. McCain. My anger is gone and I am surprisingly calm.

If a columnist attacks Sen. Clinton, I will defend her to the death. But, I believed in her and still do. She has a political future to consider and, in my view, it is nothing but positive. Voting for Sen. McCain would hurt me, Sen. Clinton, the Democratic Party and America-at-large.

We all get to let our conscience guide us and if you feel you need to vote for Sen. McCain...by all means...do so. That is your right. But, just know that you are not doing it on Hillary Clinton's behalf. She is fully behind Sen. Obama and I am right behind her.

She has a bright future in Public Service even if she isn't picked as Obama's VP. I believe she will wind up where she is supposed to be, even if that means remaining in the Senate. She will be an asset to Obama's campaign and will follow through with her promise to campaign hard for him. It is important that the Democratic Party gets the White House back.

John McCain was not the answer for my anger. Knowing Hillary can handle her return to the Senate with such grace helped a lot. She is a unique force with much to admire. She has proved it is just another obstacle for her to overcome. With her grit, she will land squarely on her feet and move on to whatever goal she has set next for herself. She will help get the Democratic Party focused again. I applaud her.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Mr. Clark

Well, that's that. Well done, T-honey.....but I can just hear our hard-headed feline "friends" now, charging that Hillary said so with a wink-and-a-nod. Ugh.

Mr. Clark.....you and I, sir, seem to be very simpatico. Very well said, as always. It just took you a bit longer to arrive at the same reasonable conclusions, that's all. Let's just hope that many other fellow Hillary supporters will follow suit and that cooler PUMA heads will prevail come November.

Diana,

It was really strange for me to be that mad for so long. In fact, I denied I was mad. It was the 4-5 weeks of nursing my cat back to health after she had a stroke that I got out of my head.

When I started commenting again, it felt half-hearted. I'm probably just a little more stubborn than you and a little slower on the draw. I've always believed that everything happens the way it was meant to and I can accept it or be miserable. Why not give this guy a chance? As long as I don't compare him to Hillary, Barack is just fine. I'm excited about the prospect of a Democrat in the White House and having control of both Houses of Congress.

I prefer just being your average happy guy. Thanks for the comments.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Mr. Clark

hillary 4 mccain

"She's keeping her promise. We respect that and understand it, but we're voters and we have our own decisions to make."

So your loyalty to Hillary Clinton stops at the voting booth? - "At voting for Senator Obama."
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I'm in full agreement with you, Will!!

You agree with will because you're truly not a clinton supporter Crystal.. PUMA is slowly making you more and more of a Republican. If she is VP, bet will and gang will come out and STILL say, NO.

Good job, Tommy!

reader8:31PMJul 21st 2008

You agree with will because you're truly not a clinton supporter Crystal.. PUMA is slowly making you more and more of a Republican. If she is VP, bet will and gang will come out and STILL say, NO.
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I hope they do, because I know I will!! And ya know what? Who cares whether you think I'm a PUMA or a Republican?

TC thinks this is a world shattering article. As if anybody who is not voting for Obama is going to change their mind. Yeah right!!

People change their minds everyday, especially if they feel they are being duped.
Just because you're as a bright as a brick doesn't mean you have to assume everyone else is as well.

Sure looks like Petraeus and Obama were hitting it off. It must be nice to think your next boss may not be an idiot.

Another Great Article T.C.

PUMA is a pipe dream cooked up by approximately 12 individuals scattered thoughout the red states working from their homes for the sole purpose of electing John McCain.

The strength of any PAC is determined by Liquid Assets, they have not revealed, to date, any substantial money collected.

They are using the old "Wild West Strategy" when one side is out numbered in fire power, they scatter their men so it appears there is more fire power coming from all directions.

Approximately 12 people working 10 hours each day are putting in 840 hours each week. They certainly can reek a lot of havoc. I believe, through smoke and mirrors, they intended to draw in many more unsuspecting Hillary voters.

Mr. Clark.....I can certainly understand your thought process as of late, as I also lost much of my passion for this once I realized that our Hillary would not win the nomination (which was several weeks ago for me). I instead opted to crack jokes and socialize in lieu of my former moderately substantive commentary, but the Dems uniting against McSame and the GOP has reignited the old flames. After all, politics is in my blood and has been since my days as a ward heeler and Poli Sci student back in Buffalo. I hope that your cat is now OK and thanks for your reply. BTW--I usually am also very stubborn....must be the German in me. Keep up the great comments.

As a Obama supporter from the first time I heard him when it was obvious to me that he would be our next president, it is encouraging to hear rational dialogue here. I have to say that some of what I heard the last few months had exactly the opposite effect the writer would hope for. I must admit that for a while I fell for the ruse and felt free to throw the hatred right back, but Obama's sensibility drew me back. I think it is obvious that many republicans are up to their usual tricks, it seems that tricks are all they are capable of, not because they are that dumb, but they have nothing else to do battle with. They cannot tell the truth so they lie, but their lies reveal the truth nonetheless.

I would like to point out, that while I have always thought woman could do a much better job than men, being intuitive and less driven by ego than men, our situation in the world would place her at a distinct disadvantage. Maybe we could accept a woman as president, but the Arabs never could or would. I am certain that Hillary would not back down from the fight, but I am afraid that it would be a fight, not only with the enemy but all Arabs, friends or foe.

I would like to say that the difference between liberals and conservatives is, I believe, the difference between business and people. Liberals are for the people while conservatives are for business.
Interestingly, the European "neo-liberalism" which here would be called neo conservatism, is attempting to change the world into a business, where EVERYTHING is regarded in terms of productivity. So programs which help people are a drain on profits. When McCane said he would reduce the size of government what he really would do is reduce government regulation of business. But at the same time he would increase government regulation of the people. We se the effects of this today with little regulation of banking etc, but strict control of the liberties of the people. What he and all the others do not take into account is greed and corruption. Take a store that has a ten percent profit margin. If a thief steals one item, the store would have to sell nine item just to break even. So their notion of free trade works on paper but in reality it would fail due to the deregulation of the business practices, witness the mortgage crisis which failed because of greed. Brokers would give a mortgage to anyone because they made the commission and sold the responsibility to someone else.

Our nation was not founded to create business. It was founded for the people and is composed of the people and is run by te people. But the conservatives want to make America into a corporation, and as we all know, if a unit isn't making a profit then it is discarded. Workers would not spend their working life with one company and then retire with a gold watch, it is more profitable to lay them off and hire younger at less pay. The net result is that the average pay would remain low.

The end result would be that workers would become slaves who are told that they will have to provide their own housing, health care and food. They would be allowed to go home at night but don't be late in the morning.

What Obama is doing is asking the people what kind of platform they would want, and the platform he will present at the convention will reflect this. That is quite a change.

And a little about change. To learn is to change, Learning without change is not learning at all. So we should not only expect Obama to change we should demand it. Living organism are constantly changing, when there is no change there is no living. Bush didn't change, Bush was experienced, Bush is white, and look where that got us? We are at the edge of a cliff, extremely in debt to our would be competitors, the Muslims and the Chinese. If we keep going we will fall off the cliff like a bird with no wings. But if we turn around, we are faced with a mountain, but it is a mountain we can climb. We can do it if we find our American can do inventiveness honest hard working compassionate roots. We can show the worl that greed and corruptness did not succeed after all. But we have to do it together. The Universe works by working together. We have to learn how to work together as well.

I am soo happy I can hardly stand it. I've been waiting for this day. I knew that Senator Clinton had more class then to be in the mud with these people. Thank God for the true Hillary supporters that have stuck with her and her call for unity!!

reader I've seen several say that they still will vote for McCain if Hillary is VP. They show their true colors more and more everyday. This isn't about Hillary at all, this is about getting McCain in office they might at well just come on out of the closet the cat is out of the bag.

THANK YOU Mr. Christopher you have made my day!!!

TC...THANKS! just maybe some reality has set in with PUMA of the results of the judges hit home. both on the appellate and supreme court nominations that McCain would choose. all might not be rosy within the party.
has it ever been? democrats often form a "circular firing squad" we have liberals, moderates and conservatives. so what, if it genenerates debate?

Tom,

It appears the PUMA's have run for the hills. I don't see but a few on the other sites.

Now we know who the mischief makers were. They will cook up another scheme tomorrow. They tried accusing us of threatening them with bodily harm. Rush will give them new instructions.

Senator Obama continues to make the right decisions.
Both McCain and Bush have borrowed a page from his "play book."

A you see, I am still learning "copy and paste."

You were such a great help and I so appreciate your kindness.

Obama 08

Hillary can do as she pleases, as will I. The DNC took millions of votes and stuffed it into their back pocket and said "nope, we want him". I have no intention of rewarding such a corruption. Period. I've voted 40 years along the Democratic ticket, but no longer. Call me what you want, it will have no sway with me. I do not feel that this man is qualified. It's that simple. And to cover his inadequacies, he becomes a chamelion: changes colors with the issue, even if it contradicts himself. He has shown me little substance and questionable character and judgement. I will not vote along the Democratic lines this year, period.

Mr. Clark,

My silver-tongued gentleman.

How are you? Glad to see you on the blog. Your input is important and informative, to all of us.

Tommy did great job with this Article. I knew Hillary wouldn't support such a group. The Democratic Party is her life. I agree, she will continue on and excel in any endeavor she may choose to undertake.

It has been exhausting for me, in my attempt to "push back" the hatred and threats against Senator Obama. Everyone deserves a level playing field.

Tommy has been a tremendous help to us and we can't thank him enough.

Take special care of yourself and the cat. I look forward to reading more of your comments.

Yeah, because it makes perfect sense for her to say she supports such a movement.(sarcasm off) It's not in her best interest to acknowledge an anti Obama pro Hillary group, As soon as she acknowledges it then it becomes a story and her democratic colleagues won't like that very much would they?

I am surprised you people were expecting any other time of response from Hillary Clinton. It would be political suicide to support such a movement.. I am sure she is rooting for the movement in her head. 2012 spot to run again....