People don't understand the present votes from the Ill legislature. However, they do understand what it means to be absent from the Senate. Get out there and start highlighting McCain's terrible attendance record. He didn't vote on FISA, Medicare or the GI Bill. Ted Kennedy has brain cancer and he made it to the Senate to vote!
Read more »How to use FISA the best way
A lot of people started questioning their support for Obama over the FISA bill, wondering if he is really interested in the privacy and protection of the peoples rights, i had a hard time understanding that decision, too
Read more »create Act for American Rights, use Chris Dodd
Obama could go a long way to appealing to Americans across the board by putting together a bill to restore/clarify/explicitly state American's consitiutional rights.
Read more »Republicans Taunt Obama As Spineless On FISA
It's OK to be inconsistent at times, but if we don't act from our essential "nature", if we triangulate and poll-watch and pander, then those tacks, those zigzags, don't blend into a true line. They just wander all over, in search of votes instead of truth. On the FISA legislation, Obama is coming very close to failing both the expediency and principle tests.
Read more »The Obama position on FISA has to be thoroughly explained
As many of Obama's supporters are embarrassed with this, seemingly for them, clear wrong move on matter of principle as to compromise on upholding the 4th amendment. You can play politic with 'Public Finincing' since McCain is not quite clear in fundraising his campaign and as long as the Constitution is not at stake but with the 'sanctity of Constitutional rights'!?...
Read more »WHAT FISA MEANS
Sen. Obama,
I am not ready to join the Frankenstein villagers of the far left in condemning your muted support of the FISA legislation, BUT you must come out and address in a clear and specific speech on why this is an important bill that should be passed. WE NEED TO KNOW WHY YOU SUPPORT THIS. If the Detainee ruling was a victory for the Constitution, we need to know how this is related?
Hold a truth and reconcilliation style investigation of Bushco crimes
One of Obama's top priorities needs to be to clean up the politicization of and undo the unconstitutional policy changes in our important institutions like the DOJ. Many of the top players need to go to jail. But these crimes need to be exposed and reversed in a way that is transparent and non-partisan.
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