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Defiant Kembro Jamaal is an educator, entertainer, and co-founder of the PUMA (Party Unity My A–!) political movement. He writes political commentary and blog reports on Examiner.com. He was born in Savannah, GA the son of a public school principal and a military vet. He was an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Scholar and a Warner Brothers Fellow in Cinema-Television Critical Studies and Screenwriting at the University of Southern California. Formerly a script analyst for Warner Brothers and a volunteer for several political campaigns, he currently pals around with surfers, teachers, and musicians, residing in a bungalow on the California coast.
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By: BletBacepoept on February 24, 2009
at 3:08 am
Justin: Can we add the whole Vermont Democratic Party to the list. In 2006, they nominated Socialist Bernie Sanders for the Senate post abandoned by retiring Senator “Jumpin Jim” Jeffords. We called him “Jumpin Jim” because he ran for office and won as a Republican, and then jumped ship immediately after winning. Old Bernie declined the dem’s offer so they didn’t run a candidate at all.
Greenfun: Thanks for the polls, I hope there are 20 million PUMA out there!
By: MCW on November 4, 2008
at 1:43 pm
Have you voted on these polls?
How many pumas???
People Want To Know About P.U.M.A. And Obama Associates-Polls
Posted on October 31, 2008
I keep seeing post about P.U.M.A. and the one question that everyone has is how many people are in the P.U.M.A. Party? Will was on Greta the other night and she even ask. Will told her that it could be as many as 4 million people because according to the polls 20% of Hillary voters are not voting Obama.
I know not all P.U.M.A.’s will come here to vote but I thought I would put up a poll and see how many people we could find on line over the next few days.
There is another thing I keep hearing on television that makes me a bit angry. I keep hearing that Obama’s associates don’t make any difference to the voters. Well is that right? They matter to me, how about you?
Please pass the word around about these polls so we might get some Idea how many P.U.M.A. are on line and how people feel about Obama’s associates. Thanks for helping out
http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/people-want-to-know-about-puma-and-obama-associates-polls/
By: greenfun on November 2, 2008
at 12:29 am
I’ve been trying to find you guys…I knew my partner and I couldn’t be alone!! We are big Hillary supporters from Long Island. We will not vote for BO. Hopefully when he looses we can then take back our party and get ride of the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean!!!!
By: Justin on October 30, 2008
at 6:43 pm
And who was governor when Vermont started tanking to the far left, why it was Howard Dean.
By: MCW on October 29, 2008
at 4:23 pm
Wow, didn’t know you guys existed. My spouse and I left the DNC several years ago for the same reasons you guys seem to be leaving now. We lived in what many now call The Peoples Republic of Vermont and we got to see first hand the tactics of the “new left.” You guys are spot on and it’s very frightening. I remember one of our Democratic representatives saying that noone should own land and other such malarky. I could go on for days.
I did some reading about Black Liberation Theology back when Rev. Wright surfaced. Barbara West was absolutly correct in asking the questions.
By: MCW on October 29, 2008
at 4:17 pm
Ness needs to read some books by James Cones on Black Liberation Theology.
By: Juliette on October 26, 2008
at 11:17 pm
Email Senator Joe Biden. Tell him the reporter in Orlando FL who angered him so, was right to quote Karl Marx in comparison to Barak Obama. Black Liberation Theology is Marxism. The United Trinity Church of Christ teaches and promotes hate and racial division in the name of Black Liberation Theology. Ask Senator Biden to read James Cones books on Black Liberation Theology. What on Earth is he trying to get us into!
Just visit Joe Bidens website for email instructions.
By: Juliette on October 26, 2008
at 11:13 pm
Sent from a blogger:
The Ant & The Grasshopper:
OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION : The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
NO OBAMA NO OBAMA
COUNTRY FIRST
My comment: Vote McCain/Palin 2008 – Americans we can trust
By: H on October 25, 2008
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