Reply #75: Obama voted for the ammendment to strip Telcom immunity though... [View All]

[grillo7]

This is about winning an election. If Obama voted no the Republicans would have destroyed him in October (especially if Bush pulls another October terror/war surprise)and we would have at least four more years of these kinds of screwed up policies under McCain. It's one thing to be symbolically principled--the bill would have passed no matter how he voted--but it's another thing to act strategically enough to win the upcoming election and have a chance to actually reverse the policies of the last eight years,and continuing them in the future. Not voting keeps us in Bushworld.