From Sista:
We at HireHeels are devastated at the loss of the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones. She was a loyal Democrat who fought valiantly for the rights of not only her constituents in Ohio, but for voters across the country. As the first African-American woman to be elected to the House of Representatives from the Buckeye State, she furthered the dialogue and the cause for African-American and women’s rights. I had the honor of personally meeting Representative Tubbs Jones several times while I was on the campaign trail for Senator Clinton. I was struck by the Representative’s warmth and enthusiasm. Her optimism and her laugh were contagious— she inspired me as she did others. Thank you Representative Tubbs Jones, we will honor your memory by continuing your legacy. We at HireHeels will fight with grace for those who cannot fight for themselves, we will stand tall against injustice; we will not back down in the face of adversity. Again Representative, thank you for your patriotism and your service. Now we will take up the baton (and run with it) for you.

From Piper:
We are all devastated at the tragic and untimely loss of Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. I don’t have the words in my vocabulary to honor her properly. Maybe they don’t exist. All I know is that she became a hero of mine this year. She was a joy to watch. Her smile was contagious, and her commentary on cable news shows became ‘must-see TV’ in my household. Her steadfast support of Hillary during the primaries showed her loyalty and the strength of her character, and her appearance at the Rules and Bylaws protest to demand that all votes be counted was a true profile in courage.

She was fierce. She was passionate. She was a force of nature wrapped in a red dress.Sista, Princess and I had the great fortune of seeing Stephanie on the campaign trail in Philadelphia.

Below is the speech Stephanie gave during a rally at the University of Pennsylvania. She brought the house down! Rest in peace, Stephanie. You will be missed, but never forgotten.

From Princess:
A great fortune indeed, Piper — Stephanie Tubbs Jones not only brought down the house that night in Philly with her fiery speech, she awakened my fighting spirit. Princess deeply regrets not navigating the masses to thank our gal’s fiercest and most passionate cheerleader in person. I intended to do so at the WomenCount luncheon in Denver next week. I pray her loved ones take comfort in realizing how many millions of Americans (like me) she moved without ever shaking their hands.

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The latest juicy gossip is that The Atlantic is about to publish publish 200 potentially embarrassing internal Clinton campaign e-mails that were sent during the height of the bruising Democratic primary (anyone care to guess who pirated them?).

The world now waits in anticipation to learn the shocking secrets of the Clinton camp’s inner sanctum, like how many donuts Mark Penn can scarf in one sitting and which episode of Grey’s Anatomy was Patti Solis-Doyle’s favorite.Honestly, what new information will we learn from these e-mails? That the campaign was in disarray and at times incompetent? That they may have said unkind things about Team Obama and its nefarious tactics? Heck, if the DNC/Obama Campaign can inspire the creation of PUMA, imagine how the Clinton camp must have taken it!No doubt there will be revelations unflattering to the Clinton camp, delicious to the media and offensive to voters. As they say, politics ain’t beanbag, and no political operative from any campaign is a saint. But I can’t imagine there’ll be anything contained within these emails that will be worse than the outright fraud and intimidation soon to be revealed in Denver at the premiere of Lightsong Film’s documentary Audacity Of Democracy. Might this be the Obama camp’s pre-emptive strike?…

Further smearing of Hillary and Bill Clinton will only further alienate Clinton die-hards and risk offending those who grudgingly mounted the unity pony. And none of it will negate the fact that Senator Obama lacks the requisite experience needed to become Commander-In-Chief. Nor will they make us forget how the caucuses and the open primaries were gamed. (Democrat for a Day, anyone?) They certainly won’t change how Florida and Michigan were blatantly disenfranchised, just long enough ‘til Obama’s lead was locked in.

So I’ll read the e-mails that The Atlantic publishes, and I’ll probably wince a lot and wish something hadn’t been written. But in the end, I’ll still say No Deal.

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Well isn’t this delicious! The Pew Research Center released a new poll showing that nearly half of its respondents are suffering from extreme Obama fatigue.

“Two-thirds of Republicans and about half of independents said they’ve heard too much about Obama, as did a third of Democrats, a significant number.”

Awww, Senator Sweetie. Is all of that fluffing by the MSM starting to backfire and leave you flaccid and unable to satisfy the masses? Are you losing both your rock star luster and your groupies? Are you more overexposed than those celebutantes you so eschew?

Maybe you should have considered this risk before you dragged your paparazzi with you on your “Preemptive and Presumptuous ‘08” world tour? It looks like this media manufactured lovefest was indeed an error in your much ballyhooed judgment.

It also makes me wonder that if people are tired of hearing of him now, how much Obama fatigue will there be after having we’ve all been inundated with $5 million in ads during the Olympics and the coronation in Denver?

But wait, it gets even juicier:
“At the same time, nearly four in 10 said they’ve been hearing too little about McCain — about four times the number who said so about Obama. About half of Republicans, four in 10 independents and even a quarter of Democrats said they’ve not heard enough about the GOP candidate.”
It sounds like the public is soooo over you, Barack. You’re yesterday’s news. The fickle masses are yearning for something new. They’re clamoring for some Johnny Mac.
Don’t be sad, Sweetie. All good things must come to an end. Those fifteen minutes were going to have to be up sometime.

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The One has graciously asked the DNC Credentials Committee to reinstate the delegations of Florida and Michigan and restore their voting power in full:
“As we prepare to come together in Denver, however, we must be — and will be — united in our determination to change the course of our nation. To that end, Democrats in Florida and Michigan must know that they are full partners and colleagues in our historic mission to reshape Washington and lead our country in a new direction. Accordingly, I ask that the credentials committee… pass a resolution that would entitle each delegate from Florida and Michigan to cast a full vote.”
Thanks Barack! How generous of you to allow us wayward voters back under the big tent just in time to witness the circus and spectacle of your coronation! I’m so glad that we can be considered “full partners and colleagues” now that the primaries are over and you have nothing to lose from our votes being counted. You are the very embodiment of voter rights and political courage!

Hey Barry, you know when a statement like this would have been helpful? During the primary season when it still mattered. Or on May 31 at the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee hearing where you DissNFrancised millions of people. Just sayin’.

Seriously, Senator Sweetie, if you didn’t want our votes while they were still meaningful, and, you know, could actually affect the outcome of the race, why should you expect that we give them to you now?

You shouldn’t.

You allowed us to be shut out of our party’s nominating process simply because the results weren’t in your favor.

You could have held revotes to make us whole.

You could have allowed the RBC to recognize the primary results and grant the delegates full voting power back in May.

You did neither. Instead, you did what was politically expedient and were rewarded for it by getting votes and delegates that you didn’t earn.

Thanks, but no thanks. This Floridian says NO DEAL, and she has a suggestion on where you should stick that olive branch.

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It appears that the race card is the only one that Obama has in his deck. The AP has reported that Obama made the following comments in Missouri yesterday:

“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

Precious can’t be talking colonial-era fashion vs. his sleek Beatles style (to match his Beatles persona). He obviously means that the GOP will use Obama’s skin color as a scare tactic…

This claim may not be totally unjustified. After all, we saw what Repubs did to John McCain in South Carolina during the 2000 primary when anonymous pollsters (Karl Rove) asked supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child. (We now know, of course, that he hadn’t. The child in question was adopted from Bangladesh. Still, McCain lost South Carolina by 12 points that year. Mission accomplished.)

But during this election cycle, the only race baiting that I have seen has come from the Democrats, and mostly from the bi-racial candidate himself. Remember the remarkably similar statement at a Florida fundraiser in June, where he added “And did I mention he’s black?” Yep, he went there. No lame comparisons to our founding fathers or shapers of our nation needed. Everyone got the message: RNC=Racist National Committee.

And then there are his groupies, like Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, who conveniently predicted that Republicans would undertake “a major effort to try and frighten people…” about Obama’s race and any such challenges to Obama as being too inexperienced or liberal would be “code words” for racism. Howard Dean told FOX News’ Chris Wallace that any mention of Jeremiah Wright was tantamount to race baiting and compared it to the infamous Dukakis-era Willie Horton ad.

New York governor David Paterson took the racism charge even further by suggesting that if Obama loses in November, it will be because Americans aren’t enlightened enough to elect an African-American president:
“Can America reject the crucible of race that has dictated and pervaded all of our history to embrace an African-American man who has the right policies for the next decade in this country? Can America go past the crippling way that we’ve shot ourselves in the foot over and over, denying opportunity to people who are bright, to people who are qualified, to people who are able because they didn’t look like us, or they didn’t come from where we came from, or they are from a different gender, or they are from the African continent? Can America push that away and find new leadership? We’ll find out in the next few months what America can do.”

Does anyone else see a pattern here?

If mentioning Obama’s race is so awful, why do the Dems keep doing it? Is it to inoculate Precious from legitimate questions about his weak legislative record and shady associates? Are they trying to capitalize on white guilt by playing the victim of unscrupulous (and so far, non-existent) Republican campaign tactics? Or is it because the Hope and Change™ strategy isn’t working anymore, and the race card is all they’ve got left?

I suspect that it’s a combination of the three. I also suspect that if the Dems aren’t careful, they’ll soon overplay their hand, if they haven’t already.

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We PUMAs continue to strike a nerve and shatter the DNC’s carefully crafted illusion of party unity with the stiletto heel of dissent and democracy!

Yesterday, fearful that our coalition may swing the election away from their Chosen One, DNC mafia members Don Fowler and Alice Germond exercised more thuggery and issued -gasp- a strongly worded e-mail (as posted on PaganPower) demanding that we STFU and fall in line behind their Messiah.

I become more surprised by the day that those who demand that we support Obama simply because he’s a Democrat had ever gotten laid. Seriously, calling me immature and telling me to get over it doesn’t make my ballot box tingle with excitement.

So I decided to respond to their ‘Unite Now or Else’ rant with an e-mail of my own:

[here’s my strongly worded reply]

Dear Don and Alice,

Sincerely,
Piper in Pucci
Proud to be a PUMA

Shorter me Don and Alice: Kiss my Seven for All Mankind clad ass. I Just Say No Deal!

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Obama, fresh from giving his progressive blogosphere groupies the shaft, is now busy wooing undecided swing voters to the dance floor. After shifting his position on campaign finance reform, Obama attempts more smooth moves than Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing (though Johnny masterfully balances Baby in the final scene!).  Obama’s awkward shifts to the right of the political spectrum are so numerous, it’s more like watching Michael Jackson moonwalking sideways.  HireHeels asks: what, you just figured out that swing-dancers no likey-like two left feet?

Obama’s shifts giving the far-left the shaft are blatant and numerous:  granting
telecom immunity on FISA; admitting “heated rhetoric” on NAFTA; making “inartful” statements on the DC gun ban; siding with judges Alito, Scalia, and Thomas on the death penalty; and on his impending trip to Iraq: “I am going to do a thorough assessment when I’m there,” he said. “I’m sure I’ll have more information and continue to refine my policy.”

Translation: That 16-month withdrawal promise that I made was just words.

On abortion: (hat tip to Jeralyn @ TalkLeft)
In an interview this week with “Relevant,” a Christian magazine, Obama said prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain “a strict, well defined exception for the health of the mother.”
Obama then added: “Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.”
I’m sure this sits well with NARAL.

Thanks a lot, Kos and Arianna. You got played. Obama used you up and kicked you to the curb when he was done with you. You fell for his smooth, sultry “hopey-changey” pick-up lines and laid down for him. Now we’re all doing the walk of shame in step.

Obamabots, this could be your Dancing With The Stars moment!

You remember Hillary, right? The dependable, wonky, pantsuited princess who did everything Precious did only backwards, uphill, blistered, battered, blindfolded and in heels! The gal that you all mercilessly smeared because she had the gall to stay in the dancehall ‘til the last dance.

Well, nobody puts Baby in a corner. She’s tanned, rested, and ready. And there’s 18 million of us who’ve still got her back. And it’s not too late to use your collective platforms (blogs, not shoes) to help sway public opinion in Hillary’s favor. Obama is not officially the nominee until the superdelegates cast their votes in Denver. If there is a tsunami of support for Hillary leading up to the convention, the superdelegates will put their fingers up in the air and feel that the political winds have shifted. You can still help make this happen. You can still say No Deal!

Or you can continue to embarrass yourselves by standing by your right-moonwalker after he’s left you for a hotter, more elusive voting bloc. It’s your call. Just know that as long as you continue to chase him unconditionally, you’ll compromise the progressive values that you proclaim to care so deeply about. Be careful. Don’t end up like poor, knocked-up Penny in Dirty Dancing.

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After 17 months of crushing and gushing on Obama while simultaneously flushing out Hillary, the Greek Goddess of Obamania writes a stunner criticizing her Idol for dumping his loyal, trusting base for a sexier, more unattainable demographic: the undecided swing voter.

“…the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. Tacking to the center is a losing strategy. And don’t let the latest head-to-head poll numbers lull you the way they lulled Hillary Clinton in December. Running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters didn’t work for Al Gore in 2000. It didn’t work for John Kerry in 2004. And it didn’t work when Mark Penn (obsessed with his “microtrends” and missing the megatrend) convinced Hillary Clinton to do it in 2008.”

(Of course no HuffPo post is complete without the obligatory slam on Hillary. Jealous much, Arianna? Have you ever passed legislation or had 18 million people vote for you? No? Pity. But I digress.)

Why are you shocked, Arianna? You of all people should know how volatile mythological love affairs are!  Did you really think that he was The One you’d been waiting for? Did you honestly believe that you two had a hopey-changey future together complete with campaign public financing and telecom accountability? Tsk-tsk.We at hireheels expect naivete from mere mortals, but the Goddess of Obamania!?!?  You’ve been around the heavens long enough to know that when a dude as smooth, shifty and sexy as Barack gets what he wants from you that he’s bound to move on to the next alluring voting bloc playing hard to get. Apparently, they think that relaxed gun laws and enforcement of the death penalty is hot.

Now I hate to say I told you so A, but the signs were there all along. You should have suspected something when his peeps Samantha Power and Austin Goolsbee were saying one thing while Barack was whispering something else in your ear. I guess that you were too blinded by fantasies of a 16-month troop withdrawal and NAFTA opt-out clauses to notice.

There, there, Arianna, it’s not all your fault. Sure, you may have let him get into your ballot box a little too easily without proper vetting. And maybe you could have played coy for a while and let him pursue you a tad longer before giving up your endorsement to him. But what’s done is done. Now he knows that he can have you whenever he wants you no matter what he does, so he’s playing the field.

So Arianna, you best gather up your stockings and stilettos to make room for the next swing stater that Obama tries to bed. But be sure to wait by the phone, because I’m sure you’ll get a booty call from him whenever his poll numbers start to drop.

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It looks like Hillary received that 3 a.m. booty call
from the big “O” begging her for a hookup…From
the AP’s resident Obot Nedra Pickler:

“Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s
campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with
former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step
toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a
bruising primary fight…

Obama’s campaign disclosed the joint appearance -
but offered few details (Piper’s note: Details? That’s just
so “old politics!”) - one day after announcing that he’d
reverse an earlier position and reject some $85 million
in public financing for the general election. The
announcement drew sharp criticism and dominated
the news cycle.”

Thus, Axelrod sought to redirect attention by (forgive
me) pimpin’ out hillary! So one day after reneging on
his public financing vow, the big “O” is relying on
Hillary’s cred and ovaries-of-steel to overcome a bad
news cycle.

What’s the matter, Sweetie? The MSM isn’t being
your fluffer anymore? So you need to channel
Hillary’s testicular fortitude to change the narrative
because, ah, well you have none?

Precisely why we Just Say No Deal to a joint ticket.
As veep, if Hillary wasn’t being relegated to picking
up O’s stinky socks or organizing his desk, she’d be
busy doin’ all the work while he lay back and enjoy.
That doesn’t work in the bedroom, and it sure ain’t
gonna work in the Oval.

Shorter me sans sexist stereotype: her talents will
either be squandered or used without credit.

Yes President Truman, I know, “it is amazing what you
can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”. Well,
I care, and I’m convinced there won’t be many
accomplishments if Hillary were forced to endure the
missionary position. We still say: “Hillary On Top!”

So how about it, superdelis? You can still put the
better qualified, more electable candidate at the top of
the ticket, or you can continue to support a smooth
operator and lose in November. Better make the
right call, or we’ll continue to roar No Deal!

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Do the bad pick-up lines ever stop flowin’? Here’s another example of “party unity” from Reuter’s (see one thing and hat tip to reader Akron):

“Author and anti-racist activist Tim Wise suspects race could be behind some of the anti-Obama sentiment among Clinton supporters. Obama would be the first black U.S. president. “Voting against Senator Obama is not about gender solidarity. It is an act of white racial bonding,” Wise wrote in an open letter to progressive female Clinton supporters.”

This man can’t be getting laid. Doesn’t he know that insults and guilt trips aren’t the way to get into a girl’s ballot box?”

Seriously O supporters, you’ve got to be nicer to us if you want to get in bed with Hillary supporters. You know what gets us hot? Universal Health Care with mandates and respect for us and our candidate. You know what doesn’t? Being called a racist.

And a word to the mr.Wise, we are not rejecting Obama because he’s black. We’re just saying No Deal because he’s inexperienced, arrogant, cowardly, and a product of a complicit media and a corrupt Chicago political machine. Just because the DeanNC fell in love with him, doesn’t mean we did. And labeling us racists only insults us and alienates us further. If this is your best material, better grab some porn. Oh, and pollsters, don’t be surprised if the women answering the phone are faking it!!

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