This is how the unity pony works….

[BUMPED] Gary posted this yesterday but, I think most of us missed it. – katiebird

MAWM told me yesterday that I needed to post something quick because people were starting to believe that I had hopped on board the unity pony express. I can assure you, that is not going to happen. I just started a new job, so that has required most of my attention as of late. Let me be very clear, however, that I am a PROUD new member of the PUMA party. Obama’s coup d’etat of the Democratic Party is all but complete, so we must regroup and work on taking our party back.

Make no mistake about it, the only thing the new Democratic Party has in common with the old one is the name. It’s like the creature from the movie Alien. The party was forcibly impregnated by usurpers that grew from the inside out, eventually shedding its host and killing it in the process. Obama and his cronies now control every apparatus in the party from fundraising to determining what the new party platform will be. But we must be very clear: Obama is an illegitimate candidate. He lost to Clinton in the popular vote, thumbed his nose at large swaths of the Dem base (women, Latinos, working people, etc.), and became a poster child for everything that is wrong with affirmative action. Even the “ethnic media” (whatever that is) seems to concede, as Riverdaughter has said before, that Obama is the affirmative action candidate:

Most importantly, the Jackson campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, helped change the party’s delegate selection rules, without which Obama could not have won so many delegates.

As Paul so eloquently stated yesterday, the Democratic Party has decided that some constituencies of the party (Jews, Latinos, older women voters, etc.) should only count as half a person. At the same time, other groups were being given exaggerated influence in selecting the party’s nominee. Maybe Bill Clinton’s comparison of the Obama campaign to Jesse Jackson’s wasn’t so far off the mark. The above quote acknowledges the role his run played in securing Obama the nomination.

Obama has consistently told those of us who have been loyal democrats our whole lives one thing: “you’ll get nothing and like it”. He expects us to vote for him without even paying lip service to us. The cries of “what about Roe v Wade” and “McCain wants to stay in Iraq 100 years” are all we hear. They want to make us feel guilty about not voting for him rather than address our concerns as loyal party members. In fact, they have actively purged many of us to satisfy their new base of African Americans and liberal elite. Let’s take a look:

Women: The outrageous misogyny displayed by Obama, his campaign, his supporters, and his lackeys in the media is well documented and does not need rehashing here. Just browse through a couple of examples over at Shakesville.

Latinos: Not only has Obama largely ignored this, the largest ethnic minority in the United States, he has even refused to acknowledge their votes. Hillary Clinton vowed to give Puerto Ricans, who are American citizens, the full vote. Obama not only does not support their right to vote, he doesn’t think they should be counted in the primary election.

He came, he saw, he cashed in , and he left…Barak Obama receives heavy influence from Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, who is a very good friend of current Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila. Both support the continuation of the island’s current territorial political status through a “constitutional assembly”; in which a select group of local Puerto Rican politicians would decide Puerto Rico’s political fate and not the people, If Senator Obama truly believes that Puerto Rico’s political status issue should be decided directly by the people of Puerto Rico, then why not publicly support HR 900 The Puerto Rico Democracy Act or the Senate version of this Bill co authored by Senator Hillary Clinton?

In turn, the voters of Puerto Rico resoundingly rejected Obama, supporting Hillary by as much as 3-1.

Gays: Obama has exploited the homophobia of many of his supporters (especially in the African American community) since the very beginning of his campaign. Before he had a “preacher problem” with Wright and Pfleiger, there was Donnie “I’m cured” McClurkin:

The controversy reflects the competing interests of two important constituencies of the Democratic party, with gay activists complaining that Mr. Obama is seeking the support of black evangelicals at their expense. The gospel tour, which begins Friday with other singers, is part of a broader effort by the Obama campaign to win over black evangelicals.

Obama threw us under the bus back when there was still plenty of room under there. And Donna Brazille further demonstrated the contempt she, Obama, and the New Democratic Party have for gay voters by saying that including gays in affirmative action guidelines is “an affront to the civil rights movement”.

Jews: Anytime any politician has any connections, however rationalized, to the likes of Louis Farrakhan, it should give Jewish voters pause. And make no mistake, many in the black community heard the “dog whistles” when Obama denounced and rejected Farrakhan at the Democratic debate in Ohio:

After Sen. Hillary Clinton challenged Obama, saying “denounce” wasn’t strong enough, Obama told Russert he would “reject and denounce” Farrakhan’s support. The whole exchange made me ill.

Although Obama scored points for defusing a political bomb, his answer was insulting.

Yet the stakes are too high for African Americans to lose faith.

Even Farrakhan himself realized he would have to join the rest of us under the bus, wink, wink:

“Those who have been supporting Sen. Barack Obama should not allow what was said during the Feb. 26 presidential debate to lessen their support for his campaign. This is simply mischief making intended to hurt Mr. Obama politically.”

But of course this was all a show for the Jewish voters, as many in the African America community believed:

Obama should have found a way to escape Russert’s trap without denigrating Farrakhan’s legacy.

But, like I said, we understand.

I wonder if Farrakhan would be pleased that the many Jewish voters of Florida have been diminished to half-person status.

Appalachia: Obama decided that 20 million Americans were either too racist, too stupid, or too poor to be bothered with. Rather than lower himself to campaign in states like Kentucky and West Virginia, he wrote off these hard working voters as uneducated and biased. His minions in the media slandered them by manipulating meaningless exit polls to paint them as racists. The opportunity for the Democratic party to bring these voters back into the fold has probably been lost for a generation due to Obama’s arrogance.

Barack Obama is starting to look more and more like George W. Bush circa 2000. Back then Bush was consolidating power in the Republican Party by raising massive amounts of money. He was supported by a cabal of power hungry conservative elites. He exploited the religious right to shore up his base. He also promised to end divisiveness and bring the country together. Today’s “Unity Pony” is nothing more than the reinvention of 2000’s “Compassionate Conservative”. But unlike so many republicans, the groups mentioned above are not masochists. We will not “get nothing and like it”. We will fight to find a political framework that addresses our needs and does not take our votes for granted. (Oh yeah, and one that counts ALL of the votes)