Clinton supporters to stage '18 Million Voices' march

[Hope And Change]

August 6, 2008

Clinton supporters to stage '18 Million Voices' march

Posted: 03:55 PM ET

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

(CNN) – A grassroots organization of Hillary Clinton supporters has announced plans to march in Denver on the same day the New York senator is set to address her party’s faithful during the Democratic convention there.

The march will take place on August 26 and is being organized by 18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise. The march will be accompanied by a festival in downtown Denver and additional coordinated marches across the country on the same day.

Clinton, who garnered approximately 18 million votes in the long Democratic primary fight, is scheduled to speak at the convention on the 88th anniversary of the date American women were granted the right to vote.

Since Clinton announced the formal suspension of her presidential campaign, the Obama campaign has gone to great lengths to promote party unity. Clinton and Obama appeared together at a campaign event in Unity, New Hampshire; the Obama campaign recently announced that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be holding two fund-raising events to help retire Clinton’s campaign debt; and Clinton is scheduled to campaign on Obama’s behalf in key


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/06/clinton-supporters-to-stage-18-million-voices-march-at-dem-convention/

[TwilightGardener]

1. Uh...are they protesting something? Or what?

[kurtboss]

5. Hillary Hasn't Been Shown the Respect She Deserves

:rofl:

[paulk]

19. RIP, kurtboss

thanks, mods....

[blondeatlast]

29. Funny, all I hear is an eerie echo... nt

Thank you, mods!

[TwilightGardener]

35. Why, what did he do to get TS'd?

[Name removed]

47. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[racaulk]

92. ***Thank you, mods!***

[TheBigotBasher]

67. Just ridicule them

Q: What do you call a bunch of demonstrating PUMA supporters ?
A: A bigot line
Q: What kind of buns do PUMA supporters like with their burgers?
A: Hot Cross buns
Q: Where do PUMA supporters like to shop?
A: Circle KKK. (Although they may have difficulty working the coffee machine)
Q: Why do PUMA members were pointed hats?
A: Easier to fit over the dunce cap (and you can carry at least 3 cats in them)

Just to be nice for a change to the PUMA types, a flattering picture of one.

[Debi]

2. PUMA

:puke:

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Not this shit again. n/t

[butterfly77]

97. I heard something about them...

making some agreement that they wouldn't carry buckets of feces...The soundbite made it sound as if there was some type of disagreement of if they could or not. Now tell me why they would want to carry some "SHIT" to protest?

[greguganus]

103. Yep an ordinance was passed that they can't carry fecal or urine bombs. n/t

[Max_powers94]

4. This is not going to end well :(

[KittyWampus]

6. -sigh- I'd say "that's nice" but can't help but wonder how disruptive it might end up being

why disruptive?

Because some of those supporting Clinton STILL seem to have issues and they are using Hillary's failed run to work them out.

[Scurrilous]

7. "Rise Hillary Rise"

I feel a poem coming on...

[Heather MC]

66. I hear a song around a campfire

complete with every one holding candles and crying

[99th_Monkey]

8. and the point of this march is what again? Only Rush knows for sure... what a bunch of idiots.

[Connie_Corleone]

9. Are all 18 million showing up or something?

[TwilightGardener]

12. LOL! I thought her voters were the type who were unable to attend caucuses--

they're going to have a real shit of a time making it to a march.

[davidpdx]

15. No, I would guess 200 tops.

If even that....

[cliffordu]

78. No - It'll be a proportional thingy - one PUMA for each million voices.

So there'll be a whole herd of 'em.

[lojasmo]

80. Those 18 million can't even be bothered...

To donate a buck apiece to bail out Clinton's debt.

If respect needs to be shown, that's where it should start. Hell, I dropped her a ten spot, and I have opposed her candidacy for years.

This group aren't Clinton supporters. They are disruptors.

[butterfly77]

98. There is no 18 million...

they had buyer's remorse after voting for her..

[Faygo Kid]

10. I assume they are bringing lots of cowbell.

Now, this is a legit post.

Absolutely one of the most fascinating poitical and psychological phenomena of my lifetime.

I hope it's cathartic for them. They will not be "celebrating" anything, I guarantee you that, from the reaction on the PUMA sites.

Hope they bring lots of cowbell, though.

[Debi]

18. Ha!!

:spray:

[blondeatlast]

37. Damn; at first glance I thought that was Perry Logan--I'm not kidding, either!

:rofl:

[TheBigotBasher]

50. Did you

photoshpo that guy in the middle or does someone really look like that?

If so no wonder he is bitter, he is 30 years too young.

[Faygo Kid]

53. Nah, the young guy is no doubt a Repuke operative. Or a LaRouchie.

I just copied the photo from a fellow DUer. The young guy there obviously doesn't give a rat's ass about this stuff; he could be a Repuke, or a LaRouchie. Both are heavily represented on the PUMA sites.

[TheBigotBasher]

57. What young guy?

The guy who seems not to care that he lost his tambourine or the Elvis look alike at the back?

Of course they do not care about that kind of stuff; they have a day out from their Care Home. They probably think they are at the beach.

[Number23]

63. ROFL

The guy who seems not to care that he lost his tambourine

I don't know what's funnier, your line or that picture. I have no idea who the guy in the photo is but he is just too groovy for me.....

:)

[TheBigotBasher]

69. It has to be

that picture. He must have a great life as no one can take themselves too seriously looking like that.

[mrs_p]

89. are you talking about the guy with the cowbell?

if yes, it's will ferrell doing my fav SNL skit ever: http://www.jibjab.com/view/143503

MORE COWBELL

:rofl:

[TheBigotBasher]

94. As I am from the UK

please forgive my ignorance of some parts of American culture. The cowbell playing must be some hick thing which, like your "World Series", may not quite catch on.

;-)

[Number23]

101. Thanks for the link, Mrs. P

Had never seen or even heard of that sketch before. But then again, I haven't watched SNL since Eddie Murphy left.

I gotta tell ya though, I laughed harder at that picture and from UKforDems responses than at that whole sketch. I'm just sayin'....

[polmaven]

96. The young guy in the front

who "doesn't seem to care that he lost his tambourine" is hitting a cowbell with a drumstick......um....from the SNL skit "Gotta have more Cowbell"????

[TheBigotBasher]

55. And third in from the left

standing to the top right of Megan from the Exorcist, is that a man or Harriet Christian?

[PatGund]

77. Is there a difference?

[mrs_p]

90. heehee

D A M N i love this picture

[Phx_Dem]

99. ROLF!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[anonymous171]

11. If they each sent her 5 dollars wouldn't she be able to retire most of her debt?

[TheBigotBasher]

32. If reports are true

that the debt is down to $5 million - as there are only 20 of them seriously involved, with 250 attracted, as both PUMA PAC and the Denver Group (despite officially not being linked) have the same major donors, they would need $25000 each.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

13. Sounds like some republican funded bullshit to me/

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

14. Sounds like some republican funded bullshit to me/

[4themind]

16. They will do what they will do

As long as enough of them coalesce behind the nominee after the convention for us to win the election I don't have a problem with it. I really just want to get into september, and into the debates, and people can decide whether they will get on board..or get on the tracks because the party and I hope the majority of US will be moving forward.

[rucky]

17. Will Rush be there?

in drag?

[taught_me_patience]

20. I'll be suprised if they get a turnout

1/100,000 of 18 million.

[Pisces]

21. Good luck with your 100 psycho march

[Occam Bandage]

22. So...are they protesting? Marching in support? Demanding attention?

[madfloridian]

23. Here is what those folks do to Dean everytime the bus stops on the tour

to register voters. Video.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/2443

I think every party leader should see what he has had to put up with in Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Macon.

[AtomicKitten]

24. So, the hundreds of thousands of Operation Chaos voters are going to march on HRC's behalf?

I don't think so.

[still_one]

25. and who might this grassroots organization be? /nt

[TheBigotBasher]

26. All 20 of them?

Don't they have a church to repair?

They are a bunch of liars and are nothing more than a Repug front.



Anyway aren't they in Toronto at the moment?



Some of them seem to have suntan issues to deal with.

[unapatriciated]

39. did anyone ever figure out what that thing was?

[Madam Mossfern]

43. Looks like

a turtle without a shell.

[TheBigotBasher]

44. I think it is

the lovechild of Darragh Murphy and John McCain. Not quite clear what you mean by "it", one shows a rat and the other shows an overblown media fake.

[FVZA_Colonel]

27. It is truly amazing, and even offensive, that they still claim to speak for all 18 million,

and actually believe that they number more than just a few thousand nut jobs posting on sites like Hillaryis44.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

28. ibtl

[blondeatlast]

30. The FReepers offer up some awesome Porta Potty duty! nt

[scheming daemons]

31. I thought that PUMAs were a figment of our imagination? That's what all the Hillary supporters here

have been saying....


Clintonistas.... divisive as ever.

[beachmom]

33. Oh, wonderful. :(

[JTFrog]

34. The 18 Pots and Pans March!!!!!!

:woohoo:
:woohoo:
:woohoo:

[TheBigotBasher]

38. I think it should be stopped

on health and safety reasons.



The slits in the hood are really not safe to see out of when marching.

;-)

[Indenturedebtor]

36. You all need to support this! These people are heros FFS!!!!!!

Here are there leaders:



Now tell me that doesn't look like heroism to you? :grr:

[Kittycat]

40. OFFS - Hillary no longer has 18M supporters.

:eyes:

[Jazzgirl]

41. With 20 people??

[RollWithIt]

42. Well, as Obama often says, this is Democracy....

If they want to march around chanting, let them. No biggie. Hopefully some of them will understand by voting day. I bet most will.

[TheBigotBasher]

46. Real Hillary supporters will

but this lot will not. They are not Hillary supporters, they are bigots dragged up from the electoral gutter and an example for the future of why not to play to the gutter. These despicable disgusting dungheaps were even attempting to undermine her by claiming she had cleared all her debts.

REPUBLISCUM

[ronnykmarshall]

49. Yup!

And I'm really sad that the OP is picking up on this shit.

[TheBigotBasher]

61. Actually it is good we do.

I am sad that MSM is picking this up. They do not pick up McCains trouble makers (and he has them). These are nothing but loons.

(With apologies to the Mentally disabled).

[Whisp]

45. so the dozen of them will be screaming how many times each?

gets the calculator out...

oh, that ought to keep them busy until 2032 or so. good.

[BeyondGeography]

48. An embarrassment in the making

and not for Obama.

[DevonRex]

51. How on earth could this be construed as helpful to the party and

our nominee? There is NO WAY this could be spun as helpful to anything but the republicans.

[Marrah_G]

52. OFFS- there will end up being like 2 dozen people there

:eyes:

[cherokeeprogressive]

54. This might, just MIGHT comes as news to some of the protesters in Denver:

Hillary DOES NOT HAVE 18,000,000 VOTES. She garnered that many in contests where the votes were CAST AND COUNTED. They make it seem like she's got this big box with all those votes in it, waiting for the right time to place them into ballot boxes.

CAST AND COUNTED. Those votes NO LONGER EXIST.

Why not be intellectually honest and say something like SOME of the 18,000,000 people who supported her in the primaries will not be voting for Obama in the GE. A few vocal protestors do not make 18,000,000 cast ballots.

[TheBigotBasher]

58. That would require honesty

Still no donation for Clinton from Darragh Murphy as per FEC search.

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

59. The "protestors" in Denver won't be there to support Hillary

Especially not the idiots in the black ninja outfits who will be starting all the fires and chaos (with government issued fake ID's in their back pockets and ski masks on their faces)

But when the media spin comes, the toothless puddytats (or whatever they call themselves) will be the scapegoat. And the sheeple will be scared into voting for "law and order" right wingers, like they were in 1968.

[TheBigotBasher]

64. This is why it is important

to keep reminding people that these groups are Republicans.

Larry Johnson - Repub. Only liked for a short time by the left because he started telling lies about Bush.

Darragh Murphy - Republican.

Democrats4McCain- set up by Republicans.

Not found out who incontinentdaughter is yet, but I can guess. Let her cry a river - bigot.

Faux let them claim 3 million members when it took them a month to fill a 250 people conference.

[DevonRex]

62. Thank you. That needed to be said. nt

[crimsonblue]

56. yawn

Clinton won more votes just Like Dubya won more votes in 00 in Florida...

[PBS Poll-435]

60. Thanks for posting this!!!

You are really helping a lot!

:eyes:

[Life Long Dem]

65. Rise Hillary Rise!!!

:puffpiece:

Or if they take Howard Dean's voters and add that to...

[WinkyDink]

68. I think HRC needs to clearly announce that she does NOT want this.

[TheBigotBasher]

70. She pretty much has

and that POS Bowers said on Faux News he does not care. These are the 2008 swiftboaters.

[Lilith Velkor]

71. Ah...PUDA bait.

:popcorn:

[TheBigotBasher]

93. So why is calling

a POS PUMA scum PUDA bait? They deliberately attempted to undermine the fundraising of the Hillary camp to cause more division.

[Lilith Velkor]

95. 'Clinton supporters' instead of 'PUMAs' in the subject line makes it PUDA bait

Hook, line, and sinker...

:popcorn:

[LowerManhattanite]

72. One hundred and ninety-four...

...pots and pans being banged out of key?

A little hard on the ears and the old Farberware™, but it should be good for a hoot or two.

Will a bout of altitude sickness make Harriet Christian's voice sound any better? God, I hope so! :)

[Colobo]

73. They should move on, and so should we.

[TexasObserver]

74. If they had staged a march of 18 million dollars ....

Hilly wouldn't be 30 mil in debt.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

[Franc_Lee]

75. Hillary supporters have planned this for the last two months, it's been on internet radio (Winamp)

[TheDonkey]

76. Rise Hillary Rise??? Are these guys comparing her to Darth Vader???

[Marrah_G]

88. It is a poem by Maya Angelou

[Vinca]

79. I guess these people won't be happy until they lose more rights,

more jobs, more healthcare and reproductive choice under President McCain.

[Ganja Ninja]

81. PUMA is not a grassroots organization of Clinton supporters.

They are a GOP scam run by a long time GOP supporter. End of Story.

[TexasObserver]

82. they can't get 18, muchless 18 million, to show up

[raebrek]

83. This will be impressive.

If all 18 million people come.

Raebrek!!!

[workinclasszero]

84. More Operation Chaos rethugs

Is Hillary Clinton a democratic party member or not? If so she needs to condemn these republican operatives in the strongest terms. If not she is suspect herself.

18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise is a rethug front group, no doubt.

[TexasObserver]

86. I agree. Most of this is from GOP operatives. However ...

... the refusal of Hillary to slap this GOP operation down and call it what it is makes the problem seem more real than it is. Her inaction allows it to be used by the GOP, so she is complicit, to her dishonor.

[barack the house]

85. It simply isn't 18 million the polls are clear. Thay are having a laugh.

The figure 18 million was false and it exluded caucuses.

[Alter Ego]

87. ...

:banghead:


...




Nope, it's still there. :banghead: :puke:

[GoesTo11]

91. PUMFA's

[zulchzulu]

100. I'm sure all 320 people will have a place to express their opinion

Let them do whatever they want. Who cares.

[greguganus]

102. They can march but not each give a dollar to pay off her debt? n/t

[Top Cat]

104. Clinton supporters to stage '18 Million Voices' march

Grow up the game is over..... We are not in overtime.