Mojo for writing your piece.
Obama is in the position of having taken many different sides of many issues including, but no limited to:
"Faith-based" initiatives. Universal Health Care. Tax Cuts/Tax Increases Balanced Budgets. Withdrawing from Iraq. Abortion. Black Liberation Theology.
Fortunately for him and for those he chooses to reward, he managed to win a big nomination anyway. Good for him and them.
Provided he wins the election, and it would take a heroic effort on his part to lose it, he will do whatever he feels like doing, as his political past indicates. When his campaign embraces the label "Pragmatic Progressive", we'll know what this is really all about.
You make a decent, if Machiavellian, case for Obama. I disagree with you wholeheartedly on your FISA argument. "The Fourth Amendment is too hard to explain to most Americans"??? And that is a reason to support weakening it??? There is no reason to believe Obama plans to change the bill when he's in office. NONE. You intimate that he will, as his campaign would like you to believe. There is no evidence for this.
I thought Obama wanted to change politics. That's what he claims his campaign is about. If it's worth fucking fighting for, then fucking fight for it. In this case, he's either a tool or a wuss. Perhaps he can put out an ad clarifying this important issue. I'll donate for that.
Enjoy your weekend.
Look, I was speaking from personal experience with the FISA thing. I have yet to convince one person I know who wasn't already against it that this is an egregious offense against the constitution, they just don't get it. Perhaps I know more stupid people than average...I have no idea, but the lack of understanding I've encountered is astounding.
So Machiavellian my thinking may be, but I'm beyond caring at this point. 5 Months to go and I just want him to win, I'll have the next 4-8 years to kvetch and be disappointed :)
Nonsense.
