One Single Puma Voice Says…No Deal

Call me crazy, I still believe that people and movements shape governments. That being said, I do not believe that Barack Obama is a slam dunk for the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. I think that he has plenty of time before the convention to prove exactly how much of an inexperienced, unqualified, unelectable candidate he is. I am starting my own personal email campaign to every single superdelegate, (with the exception of Donna Brazille), to ask them to reconsider voting for this empty chair. Below is my first open letter to the superdelegates. I will continue to send these letters as he continues to prove what so many folks have been saying.

Do you really want Senator John McCain inaugurated as the 44^th President of the United States? Just asking; just wondering.

Out of 43 presidents, only 14 have been Democrats. Does that not seem a bit lopsided to you? You have been awarded a very special vote that can outweigh the people’s choice and goes against the very democratic principle of “one person, one vote”. Are you going to cast that vote wisely or are we going to be watching the elephant dancing in the streets again?

This is, as so many people have said, a history making/breaking election cycle in a time when choosing the correct President could be the difference between pulling out of a recession and being plunged into 1929 all over again. The markets react negatively every time Barack Obama gets a bump. People are talking about the convention of 1968 and the fear that 2008 will be similar or worse. Superdelegates were created after the fiasco of 1968 and it is already crystal clear that changes are going to occur after this convention. Fenced protest areas have already been set up in Denver and the Denver City Council has been preparing for anything and everything for months.

We are all standing at the edge of the abyss and you have the Duty and Responsibility of voting for a nominee that can actually win the White House in a year when the Democrats should have danced down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with a landslide. Instead, we have a presumptive nominee that was shoved across the finish line by superdelegates that were “encouraged” by the Democratic leadership to pick a candidate by the last day of the primaries. This is democracy at its finest?

I am writing to you as a PUMA/Just Say No Deal voter to ask you to make a different kind of history and reconsider your vote during the roll call at the convention in Denver. I will grant you that you did not allow George Bush to be elected the first time, but the DNC definitely had something to do with the second time. How could that happen? I have had trepidation every day since George Bush was elected as to what was going to occur in our nation and to the average American. My fears for America and its citizens rose exponentially as Barack Obama’s candidacy continued. A true leader stands up for what is right, does not bow to political pressure and sets the tone for the group he is leading; and what a tone has been set by Barack Obama. I keep asking myself, by everything that is right and good and American, how did this man become a United States Senator? How? And how could anybody even consider nominating him as the Democratic Presidential Candidate?

Barack Obama has set a tone of issue reversal on important issues more times than I will list, “wrong” or present voting, leaving an empty chair in the Senate, silence and then refusal to cooperate as almost 2.3 million Michigan and Florida voters were disenfranchised, silence as the DNC’s sunshine rules were broken because it helped his cause, an inability to control his surrogates and volunteers; yet controlling his marketed image down to the most infinitesimal decimal point, adoption of other candidate’s policies because he had none of his own, a long history with un-American associates, using the race card against his opponents and the American people, turning his back on states he did not think he could win in the primaries, silence as one of his own party is attacked on a personal level by the MSM and adds fuel to the fire with his camp’s memo to all media outlets about a particularly nasty attack by one media outlet, and being a part of the problem instead of being part of the solution to Washington politics.

Finally, but most importantly, Barack Obama has set a tone of complete and utter inexperience with 146 days in the Senate before declaring for the position of President of the United States, and then leaving an empty chair in the senate as he campaigned for a position that requires executive experience and a background in national security; both of which he sadly lacks.

If Barack Obama is nominated, I will not be voting for him. I, my family, and friends, sent him out into the tundra long ago. I will not aid and abet the election of someone who has not been vetted properly by the DNC and who has so many negative and simply unknown qualities. I cannot even fathom who he really is or what he truthfully stands for. He has not shown any leadership qualities and continues to show, on a daily basis, that he is not presidential material.

The Republican machine has not started on Barack Obama and will not until after the convention because they know that he will lose. They also know that if you nominate Senator Clinton, they will lose by a landslide. Please do not force me to vote for John McCain. Please nominate Senator Hillary Clinton and give us our 15^th Democratic president.

You have plenty of time to take a good, long, hard look at Barack Obama, and I ask that you actually do reconsider your vote at the convention. The presumptive nominee has given you more than enough reasons to stand up as true Democrats and say NO DEAL.

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