KHOU: PUMA Wants Delegates to Back Hillary and...

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I find the fact that the MSM has simply ignored the Puma story really quite extraordinary.  Given the 24 your news cycle, you  would think they'd jump all over it.  But no.  Pretty much complete silenece.  I wonder if they expect a Pres. Obama to punish real reporting they same way the Bush Admin. did.  What happened to the New Yorker after their piece on Obama's rise in Illinois politics is pretty good evidence that MSM fears would be well placed.

Good to see there are at least some reporters willing to tell a story.

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by: dbrown04 @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 08:04:00 AM CDT

Here's more: Posted at Politico! (0.00 / 0)

By ALLISON SHERRY & ANNE C. MULKERN at the THE DENVER POST, via Politico

Looks like last week's video shook loose some reporters.  Clinton supporters are finally getting some attemtion:

Brenda Krause is tired of fear mongering among the Democrats.

The 55-year-old delegate to the Democratic National Convention doesn't think the party - or its unity - is in any way compromised by her voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the roll call.

When Clinton dropped out of the running, Krause mourned that her generation likely isn't going to see a woman claim the Oval Office.

That day, she vowed to stick with the New York senator.

"I'm not going to be coerced into something I don't believe in," said Krause, who lives in Colorado Springs and owns a real estate office. "That makes me less unified. If they let me have my voice, I'll feel more unified."

So go the voices of dozens of national delegates across the country, pledged to the New York senator, who say they are flummoxed about what to do when they are asked to cast a vote in a few weeks.

And for a lot of people its just about right and wrong:

But for many Clinton delegates, it is about principle.

Because they were chosen by her supporters in districts across the country, many say they won't feel like they fulfilled their duty until they cast a vote for her - however futile that might be.

"I will come on board the unity train with a first class ticket if, before doing so, I get the opportunity to vote for my candidate," said Daniel Kagan, a property developer and lawyer from Arapahoe County. "On Aug. 28, when Obama accepts the nomination, I will be there cheering along with the rest of them, but only if I have had the chance to vote first."

And this was one of the most stunning comments in the article.  At least one Clinton delegate reports being told that she will not have a chance to vote for Clinton.

Texas delegate Linda Figueroa, a 53-year-old paralegal from Corpus Christi, said the pledged Clinton supporters were told in a delegate conference call this week that they would not get to vote for her. She said the senator's scheduled speech on the floor of the Pepsi Center Tuesday evening Aug. 26 was "not enough."
"We (the Clinton delegates) are really having our ups and downs," Figueroa said. "She deserves more than what she's going to get."

Clinton delegates are afraid to speak up, for fear of losing their credentials (kind of like China and visas for Olympians whose politics the government doesn't like.)

Other Clinton delegates said privately that they were afraid to speak out against the Democratic National Committee or Obama, for fear of getting their credentials yanked at the convention.

One of the greatest parts of this article is a quote from Gary Hart, who was allowed to be left on the ballot in 1984:

Allowing delegates to vote for their chosen candidate gives them an opportunity to celebrate that candidate and their work on the campaign, said former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, who ran for president in 1984 and 1988.
At the convention in '84, Hart said, each of his 1,200 delegates voted for him "with no defections."

"My people put on a massive demonstration, it went on for 10 or 15 minutes," Hart said. "They felt very good about it afterward."

The Obama campaign just doesn't seem to realize that there is a brooding anger out there for which the logic of the situation is simply irrelevant.  From one other delegate:

"They say they don't need us ... I don't spend 30 seconds a day thinking about that," Marquez said. "When I see a top woman being called a whore and a she-goat ... I can't forget that."

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by: dbrown04 @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 08:57:38 AM CDT

Thanks for posting (0.00 / 0)

And dbrown, thanks for adding the snips about the delegates. After last week's video of Hillary saying she does want her named placed into nomination, I bet Hillary's delegates are feeling a since of purpose and community again. The Obamedia has been trying to keep Hillary's supporters and her delegates silent and fractured. No longer. We are uniting, uniting for Hillary and against Obama.  

Alice left me in Wonderland.  

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by: grlpatriot @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 12:45:24 PM CDT

We have been united all along. The mainstream media just wasn't paying attention. (0.00 / 0)

And I have to admit that the Clinton delegates had probably lost a lot of hope with all the Obama posturing and pandering and the bad and crude behavior of many of the Obama delegates and the way some states (like Wisconsin) have treated Hillary Clinton delegates.  (The way WisDems threw Debra Bartoshevich out was unconscionable.  Though she probably did play her hand too early, that I grant.)

Excellent post, Texan4Hillary.  I'm so glad to see that you have some real reporters down there, who are reporting the real stories!

There's no excuse for this, DNC.  None.

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by: LSekhmet @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 21:35:28 PM CDT

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there is another in the hou chronicle yall will enjoy that i will pst

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by: texan4hillary @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 23:39:37 PM CDT