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August 13, 2008

Obamanation: Bunny Rabbit Killers?

by AltHippo @ 3:54 pm. Filed under 2008 Elections

A few of us were out last Saturday night, and the topic came up of the alleged PUMA conference that we understood to be held nearby in DC. I tried to find out what I could, given that it was a closed-door conference, with no media allowed. This Observer article has the most detail that I’ve seen thus far. (h/t AntiPuma).

First, one of my questions concerned the size of the PUMAs. While the meowists had thrown around a figure of 250 registered for the conference, the Observer article indicates it was more like 60. While 60 is a perfectly respectable figure for a conference on the synthesis of ancient Sumerian prosody using RELP-encoded triphones, it’s a poor figure for a presidential movement. We’ve certainly had crowds bigger than that for Drinking Liberally events.

They changed the location (when? I wonder) from the Marriot to a Country Inn out at Dulles. Someone need to get out of town quickly?

That being said, a couple hundred pumatons could certainly function as a guerilla movement to disrupt the convention in Denver. This paragraph suggests that, indeed, barring an overthrow of the DNC, they would like (nay, demand) the removal of the presumptive nominee and to replace him with the former first lady:

The mostly female collection of activists who continue to rally around the cause of a decommissioned White House bid can’t exactly be described as an organized movement. There are the wealthy donors who work within official party channels and talk calmly about reforming the party’s nominating process or protecting against gender bias in future elections. Their level of hostility toward the Obama campaign varies. And then there are the outright rejectionists: the raucous bloggers and founders of groups like PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) who plan to disrupt the convention and have declared all-out war against Mr. Obama and his supporters, who they accuse of making death threats and leaving dead bunny rabbits on doorsteps in the middle of the night.

Dead bunny rabbits? I’m guessing that’s a reference to a scene from Fatal Attraction. But really, I find this hard to believe, and resembling more Perot ‘92-style paranoia than anything I would imagine from rank and file Democrats.

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