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In PUMAs: Acknowledge the sexism in the party, media Cap’n “Special” Ed writes:

When the primaries ground to a halt in June, Hillary’s supporters complained bitterly not just about sexism from the media, but also from Obama’s campaign. The Sweetiegate story provided a glimpse of it, but Obama did a lot more damage after Hillary suspended her campaign by suggesting that women needed to “get over it” and that he didn’t have time to pander to them. The dress suggestions for women in his media entourage probably didn’t help much, either.

In trying to correlate the title with the text one might, as Ed does, assume that the PUMAs are former supporters of HRC in the Democratic primary. I’d say the jury is still out on that. We suspect that some of them might be HRC supporters, and some of them may be Democratic party voters. It’s an educated guess though, that there are Republicans of various stripes mixed in with them as well. I know that PUMAs have spots, not stripes, but just as sure as they’re not real Democrats, they’re not real pumas.

This much I can say: if these folks are Democrats (then Michelle Malkin is a furry kitten) they are unlike any group of Democrats I’m familiar with. They’re not interested in any of the issues that I usually hear brought up by Democrats when they congregate. They don’t talk about the concentration of wealth, or jobs, or unions, or health care, or Iraq, or the Bush Justice Department, or impeachment. They only thing they talk about is how sexist the Obama people are, and how the DNC stole HRC’s Michigan and Florida votes.

Take this nugget from the rivermalkin comment section. It’s a classic conversion story, with a fascinating twist. The DNC worker, having learned the “truth” about Hoho and Nancypie vows to quit his job and get a job at Walmart. By the way, does the DNC even go door-to-door? Phone banking, sure, but I’m not aware of door knock campaigns supporting the DNC. Anyway, my point is that how many former DNC employees are going to work for Walmart as their back-up plan?

You mean this Walmart? The one that warns employees against voting for the Democratic party? The one that’s used strong-arm tactics to keep out unions? The one that violates minimum wage laws by requiring unpaid overtime?

Anyway, here’s the full meowist anecdote for your amusement:

The Story of A Young DNC Volunteer Knocking On My Mom’s Door Today.

I just got a call from my mom tonight telling me her story of her encounter with a young man that knocked on her door today working for the DNC. He certainly did not know what was coming when he came to her door. She saw his DNC shirt, and started to lay into him about how the Democratic Party leaders have totally destroyed the Party, and completely rigged the election for Obama, and she would never give him a dime.

Once she noticed the fear in the young man’s eyes, she stepped back and invited him in for some water. She asked him how he got the job, and how it was going and did he know what happened in this election? He said he had worked only three days, and that he would get a percentage of everything he raised from the grass roots. She then asked how he was doing. “Terrible”, he said. She then asked, if the DNC trained him and informed him what he would be facing going door to door. He said, “no they did not”.

So she let him know about the voter fraud in the caucuses, the dis-enfranchisment of Michigan and Florida, the stealing of votes at the RBC meeting, the buying of super delegates, and the rigging of the election by the Party Leaders. She said she was a life long Democrat who was Jerry Brown’s campaign manager when he ran for Governor in the 70s, and for the first time in her life she would be voting for a Republican because of what Dean, Pelosi, and Brazille had done to the Party. She told him about Obama’s relationship with Rezko and Ayers, and the corrupt Chicago machine, and that Obama bought and threatened many super delegates with their lives if they did not back him.

This poor young man got an education. She felt bad for him, and encouraged him that it was great that he was working on a grass roots campaign, and that it was important for young people to be involved, but he needs to educate himself on what he is selling before agreeing to the job. She then said, “Honey you need to make sure you pick the right movement.” He agreed.
He said that the DNC did not tell him anything, and after three days of working and raising no money and getting yelled at that he is done, and quitting tonight. He said he is going to take a job at Walmart instead. With a turkey sandwich, two bottles of water, and an apple in hand the young DNC volunteer from UC Santa Cruz left my mom’s home awakened by the truth, and completely dismayed. He then promised my mom as he left that he would tell the DNC exactly how she felt right before he quits.