Digby & Jane Hamsher urge you: Unhappy about Obama's stand on FISA?let him know on his website!

[KoKo]

Here's the Scoop:

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Throwdown

by digby


Glenn Greenwald and Keith Olbermann have gotten into a dustup over the FISA legislation in which John Dean seems to be the arbiter. (Isn't the blogosphere grand?)

Anyway, everyone can have their own opinion about the merits, and whether or not Keith or Glenn are taking the right tack in terms of Obama's agreement to support the compromise. Unsurprisingly, I favor Greenwald's argument on this. I just don't think it's really necessary to support this compromise in order to win this election and I think that at the very least we should have these programs examined by a new Justice department before anybody makes any more laws on the subject. It's entirely possible that an Obama administration will simply reinstate them --- the willingness to support this compromise suggests that it will. And I wouldn't support that under any circumstances. But the idea that it has to be done in order to win the election I think is wrong. You can appeal to swing voters in some other way than trashing the constitution. (Here's a novel idea. How about making a better argument?)

-snip-

Obama has opened up some avenues for his supporters to talk directly to him. From Jane Hamsher:

It's also interesting to note that the tools created to help organize Obama supporters against his opponents are now being used to organize themselves to communicate with him. There's a new group on "MyBarackObama.com" called "Senator Obama -- Please Vote Against FISA."

Stop by and tell the Senator that you'll be voting for him in November and hoping that in the meantime, he does the right thing.


It's unlikely to make a difference in this vote, of course, but it's necessary to go on the record and keep talking about these things if you want them to change. If we can change the political zeitgeist, someday conservatives will be the ones having to risk offending their base for a change.

more..at
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/throwdown-by-digby-glenn-greenwald-and.html

[Eric J in MN]

1. Link to Obama group

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA

If you don't already have an account at Obama's website, it takes about a minute to setup.

[dflprincess]

2. Thanks for the link

I signed up, but when I tried to join this group, I got a message that some parts of the site were down for maintenance.

[Luminous Animal]

3. Oh sure. Maintenance. (n/t)

[dflprincess]

4. Don't enourage me to think that way

n/t

[dflprincess]

5. Just tried again - it's working now

n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

8. There are over 1400 members now of the group working to get Obama to reconsider FISA

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. thanks for the link; I posted my comments stating "no Backbone, no cash". n/t

[PassingFair]

7. I told them that MY money went to Act Blue this month...

to help fight the FISA bill.

COULD have gone to him....

[dflprincess]

12. Mine is going to the ACLU

n/t

[midnight]

9. Why did Obama change his stance from upholding the constitution

over fear mongering to the new stance that giving up our fouth ammendment rights were a fair trade for some of the new tools?

[KoKo]

10. We assume it was to bring in the "Independents" and "wavering Repugs..."

what else could it be?

[ima_sinnic]

11. I already gave him a piece of my mind through "Contact Us" at mybarackobama.com

and said my former enthusiasm and financial support had pretty much died of apathy. He's apparently not the brilliant "constitutional scholar" he's supposed to be. I'll vote for him because he's better than McCain, and I always vote for the D, but that's about all, now. I'm just not that gung-ho anymore.