Obama Adviser: I ‘Strongly’ Believe Telecoms ‘Should Be Granted Immunity’

[carlotta]

He has some real winners on his team. Why does he have people like this as his advisors?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/07/obama-brennan/

[IndianaGreen]

1. Obama is opposed to telecom immunity

and that's the only opinion that counts. If nothing else, at least this proves that Obama is not surrounded by "Yes" men and women, like McClinton is.

[journalist3072]

2. Do you have proof that Sen. Clinton is surrounded by yes men, or are you just talking out of your

a&s again?

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Do you have to ask? Nearly everything that comes

out of an Obama supporters mouth about Sen. Hillary Clinton is unsubstantiated and unsupported.

What kills me most are the posts in which the poster KNOWS what Sen. Clinton is thinking!

[blm]

3. Hillary's advisor is Tony Blair's advisor - Mr "Stand with Bush no matter what" Clinton.

Now THAT is a CLOSE advisor.

[thunder rising]

4. And the lead line is ...

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has consistently spoken out and voted against granting retroactive immunity for telecoms that participated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.

[lligrd]

5. Reduced To Posting The Private Opinions Of Staff?

I'm sure Hillary's camp has some monstrous beliefs.

[durrrty libby]

7. Think that up between Kool-Aid refills? Impressive

:crazy: :dunce: :boring:

[ctaylors6]

6. Jeez, with advisors like he's had today, who needs an opponent?

[JTFrog]

9. Once again, You cannot make Hillary's stink stick to Obama no matter how hard you try.

Obama has made his position very clear and has laid out his plan for all to see.

Hillary, not so much.

http://obama.3cdn.net/780e0e91ccb6cdbf6e_6udymvin7.pdf

Barack Obama’s comprehensive technology and innovation plan will:

• Ensure the full and free exchange of information among Americans through an open Internet and
diverse media outlets.
• Create a transparent and connected democracy.
• Encourage the deployment of a modern communications infrastructure.
• Employ technology and innovation to solve our nation’s most pressing problems, including reducing
the costs of health care, encouraging the development of new clean energy sources, and improving
public safety.
• Improve America’s competitiveness.

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http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2369

Today, Obama is throwing down the gauntlet on internet freedom, telecom lobbyists, and on opening up government in general to the public. It's some genuinely radical stuff, and it includes the use of blogs, wikis, and openness in government hearings.

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And then of course there is spectrum and net neutrality. Both Edwards and Obama have made it clear they will break the power of the wireless gatekeepers, the telecom lobbyists who gut our laws, and the Comcast traffic shaping tyrants. Clinton, though, has been a noted absence in the debate about spectrum, mumbling about it incoherently at Yearlykos, and her plan for broadband was written by the telcos and doesn't include net neutrality. She still hasn't come out clearly on retroactive immunity, as her campaign's ties to telecom lobbyists are not trivial, and it looks from her possible FCC choices that her administration would be a continuation of the Clinton-Bush years of media and telecom deregulation.

Where are Clinton's tax returns? Where are her first lady papers? Where is the library donor list? WHAT IS SHE HIDING and why will she go to such drastic lengths to make sure it stays hidden?