Now that he’s wrapped up the nomination, Sen. Obama has wasted little time in whoring himself to what Billie Joe of Green Day would call “Idiot America.”
He 180′d on FISA. 6 months ago his campaign said:
Senator Obama unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies and has cosponsored Senator Dodd’s efforts to remove that provision from the FISA bill. Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. Senator Obama supports a filibuster of this bill, and strongly urges others to do the same. It’s not clear whether he can return for the vote, but under the Senate rules, the side trying to end a filibuster must produce 60 votes to cut off debate. Whether he is present for the vote for not, Senator Obama will not be among those voting to end the filibuster.
Today, he began pandering to idiot America.
He says he will support a bill even with Telco Immunity:
My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.
People will defend this as moving to the center. It’s not moving to the center. It’s moving to the idiots. No one on the intelligent right, center or left wants to shred the Constitution. This is pandering to idiot quasi-fascists. And this insults our ability to hold him accountable for prior statements.
Perhaps that early 1984 Obama mashup video wasn’t so far off. It may be 2008, but it seems to me like 1984. The only thing wrong with the video is that Obama may wind up becoming the proponent of Big Brother rather than the hero who challenges it.
July 10, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Let this be a warning to all Americans on the left and the right: the cult of personality that is promoted on every point of the political spectrum vis-a-vis the presidency has to be replaced by a faith in the Congress. That’s where 21st century American renewal will come from.
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