To start let me just say that the recent dairies here seem to be verging on obcession with FISA and Obama's role in it.
Which most times wouldn't be a bad thing, except here Obama's vote and the passing of the bill hasn't even happened yet.
And that is the point at which I really don't get the lengths people have gone to.
Perhaps someone (calmly, reasonably and rationally) can explain why people are acting like they have been stabbed in the back when:
Obama hasn't even voted yet
Obama has already said he was going to try strip the civil immunity (as he promised)
And when it's looking like even if Obama tried to filabuster the bill there already is 60 votes to overcome any such action
Do people not understand that Obama is not a god, he's not even the offical nominee yet and that what ever influence he yields is not absolute and that further as a consitutional professor he believes this bill is needed and doesn't unduely violate the 4th.
Now if we were willing to trust his judgement before why not now?
Note please this isn't a 'you must mindlessly follow our nominee ' I have plenty of points of disagreement with Sen Obama, I think his health care plan isn't aggressive enough, I think that his energy plan takes too long and I think he's more to the right of me on trade.
But overall I agree with him more then I disagree and that's why I support him and I think that's what other people should think about too before they do something rash.
I feel that we must remember that to vote and react as a single issue voter is how the last 30 years happened and that to become a single issue voter is to limit yourself to only that issue.
This now brings me to why I feel the DK community by and large has failed, I know I'm not an old memeber, I know that I even don't post diaries often. But the fact is a simple review of my dairies and comments easly shows I'm not a troll, concern or otherwise.
And yet because I had the temerity to speak my mind, to say that even though it goes against the 'common wisdom' of this site that I think people were being unreasonable I was mocked, insulted, called a troll and even had people given me troll ratings even though the comments didn't warrant that.
And I have to ask is that what has become of Daily Kos as a community? Has it become such that if you don't toe the line you have to deal with people not capable of even polite disagreement?
If so I must say that I'm disappointed in my fellow kossacks because I expected better of you as a group then to act like red state, hilariyis44 and other such sites.
Perhaps I was naive and this site really is just like any other site, but I had hoped it was different.
This isn't a GBCW diary because I don't believe in giving up just because of a challenge, I'm not leaving and I'm not going to stop commenting as I see fit.
thoughtfully,
drache
Update I rather didn't expect such a volume of response, I'm going to keep trying to answer everyone that didn't post in reponse to someone else but for now I've got to go back to the real world