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Friday, June 27, 2008 --- 104 days ago http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/06/pumas-youre-wor.html
| It took a while, but Hillary Clinton finally came around to campaign for Barack Obama. And now, they've taken their show on the road, as The Times reports. The wife of the Man from Hope went to Unity, N.H., today and said, with Obama at her side, "Unity is not only a beautiful place... As we can see, it's a wonderful feeling -- isn't it?" Clinton apparently bore no grudge about Obama's hiring of her former (and unfavored) campaign aide. And Obama, meanwhile, pledged to help Clinton pay off her debts. Unfortunately some of her female fans haven't quite made it to Unity. In fact, some of them are deriding the whole concept by calling themselves Pumas, to stand for "Party Unity My Ass," and perhaps unintentionally invoking another not-so-complimentary feline term for women. Some insist they'll vote for John McCain, while others plan to abstain, or write in Clinton's name. Rebecca Traister of Salon had the best explanation of their reasoning. (Traister also had a solid explainer of why liberal women were so peeved by the attitude of male Obamaniacs, many of whom, she noted, insisted they would vote McCain if Clinton was the Democratic nominee. In other words, this isn't chicks-holding-grudges, Chris Matthews fans.) On why they're mad at Obama himself: ...for some, there is lingering sting -- about the paucity of women in Obama's top advisory team during the campaign, about the way they feel the Obama campaign stained Clinton's suppor ... |
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