Hillary was convinced that it helped her electibility to vote for the Iraq War, because so many Americans, at that point in time, were brainwashed to believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11 & had nukes, but Obama did the RIGHT THING and made a brave speech against the war, in which he told the TRUTH.
Guess what?
That speech and that bravery and that JUDGMENT and being RIGHT and telling the TRUTH is why he beat Hillary.
Obama is caving in to the extreme right's threats that they will paint him as being soft on terrorism just the way Hillary caved. Did it serve her well in the end? Why do you think Congress has a lower approval rating than Bush?
BTW, this bill doesn't enhance our capabilities in stopping terrorism one iota! In fact, I would say that spying on everyone, as opposed to getting a warrant to spy on the real terrorists, would reduce the chances of stopping a terrorist plot, due to all the clutter of listening into too many conversations at once! IT'S A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, BECAUSE IT'S NOT EFFICIENT AT ALL, BUT VERY CUMBERSOME IF THE INTENT IS TO STOP A TERRORIST PLOT ON TIME!!!!
Case in point, prior to 9/11, the FBI didn't listen to the tapes they had monitored, because they didn't have enough money to hire people who understood Arabic, Farsi, etc. Listen to what Sibel Edmonds says. Even when Ms. Edmonds came upon a nefarious plot in which government officials have helped foreign spies infiltrate our nuclear secrets, the bigwigs at the FBI didn't do anything about it, but fired her!
Something is very rotten in Washington, and this retroactive immunity serves to cover it up and threatens our national security far worse than demanding that our 4th amendment NOT be sacrificed. The people behind this FISA immunity are the same people who lied us into a war, from which they have profitted and that has increased the ranks of Al Qaeda, not weakened it. These liars are not to be trusted, and they clearly do not give a fig about our security, only their greed.
They are not patriots, but traitors, which explains why they are taking away our civil rights. They are the ones who are not patriotic. They are the ones who do not love our freedom, but are attacking it. They are the ones who are projecting their own hatred of our way of life by obliterating our Constitution, from which we have our national identity. They wear symbols of our country, such as the American flag, on their lapels, while essentially painting a swastika (an emblem of fascism) on it by taking away our right to privacy and our right to dissent.
This double dealing with our Constitution and with foreign spies is what harms our national security, and if these lawsuits were allowed to go forward, we could start investigations that would find out who in our government is selling our nuclear secrets abroad and put a stop to it. We could hold these traitors accountable, before we have something far worse than 9/11 befall us due to their selling us out.
It's the corporate owned media who is smearing Obama and questioning his patriotism, NOT THOSE OF US FIGHTING AGAINST FISA.
He may not win if he caves into them, but he will win if he stands up to them and eloquently arugues his case ARMED WITH THE TRUTH, as he did with Hillary. Obama would win by a landslide if this warrantless spying were allowed to be litigated in court and this administration's evil deeds were uncovered.
By right, we should be demanding impeachment investigations and enforcing subpeonas, instead of letting these crooks slip out of the back door of the White house.
The same special interests who pressured Congress to take impeachment off the table don't want these investigations into government spying on American citizens, storing their conversations and e-mail into a databank, for the same reason: they have a lot to hide, pushing us into a war of their choice for their benefit, not ours. They want to push us into Iran, next, and these lawsuits will foil their plans.
I don't just blog. I volunteered for Obama, and the independents as well as the Republicans I spoke with were really turned on by Obama's good arguments, because they were RIGHT AND TRUE. They were very angry about being lied to about this war that has taken so many lives and cost American taxpayers over $3 trillion. (Think of all of the interpreters we could afford that are essential to our national security if we didn't get into this quagmire that had nothing to do with 9/11!) These independents and Republicans, whose other laundry list of issues more closely resemble McCain's, will no longer have that compelling reason to switch to Obama: his adherance to the fundamental principles of our country, specifically the Constitution, if he fails to do the right thing about FISA.
Now, Obama is arguing a case that does not have validity and makes him sound like McCain, who these Republicans & Independants do not like due to his insincerity and his lying to them about the war!
He is being advised to do the wrong thing here, and many of you are joining in with the chorus of bad advisors. It's my contention that you are hurting his chances, not me.
I am trying to not only save the 4th amendment & hold the Bush administration accountable, but to save Obama from making the same strategic mistake Hillary made, which was her undoing:BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE AND MISLEADING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF LEADING THEM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
"Information is the currency of democracy." ~ T.J.