Do you notice anything glaringly obvious?

Thank you for contacting me about the proposed legislation to give phone companies legal immunity for past wiretapping. I share both your strong opposition to this special interest provision and your frustration that the President and his supporters in Congress continue to push it. This fight is just one more example of why things in Washington must change.

I have consistently opposed this Administration's efforts to use debates about our national security to expand its own power, whether that was in regard to the conduct of the Iraq war or its restrictions on our civil liberties through domestic surveillance programs or suspension of habeas corpus. It is time to restore oversight and accountability in the FISA program, and rejecting this unprecedented grant of retroactive immunity is a good place to start.

Giving retroactive immunity to telecom companies is simply wrong. Thankfully, the most recent effort to pass this legislation at the end of the legislative year failed. I unequivocally oppose this grant of immunity and support the filibuster of it. I cosponsored Senator Dodd’s proposal that would remove it from the current FISA bill.

This Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. When I am president, there will be no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens; no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime; no more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. Our Constitution works, and so does the FISA court. By working with Congress and respecting our courts, I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.

Thank you again for contacting me. I look forward to continuing to wage this fight.

Sincerely,

Barack Obama

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Paid for by Obama for America

ZERO mention of any awareness of (or intention to do anything ABOUT) the looming "compromise". Which is, of course, the issue which prompted this recycled bit of blather posing as a response.

N/T

I did respond to Henry.

"Thanks" for the body blow. Jeezuz.

F*ckin' Obama.

Press Option 6 ("any other questions"). Nobody answering the phones at this hour, it seems.

...but what, exactly, ARE you advocating? I mean, if you have actual ideas, I'd like to here them. More specific than [paraphrasing] "take a bodily stand". No snark, I just have no idea what you're suggesting.

in my world

Given your prior prognostication track record, don't you think we'd all be better served (you, especially) if you knocked it off?

Please, call Obama NOW!

And if you've already called, call again!

Word is, Vote is Friday!

(866) 675-2008 [Dial 6, then 0, on the menu]

Then Obama should have simply stayed the f*ck OUT of it!

Too bad, so sad.

"Majority Leader's Office"

202-225-3130

Thanks brendancalling for the # and the aka

I'm typing even more incompetently than usual.

Too bad, so sad.

"Majority Leader's Office"

202-225-3130

Thanks brendancalling for the # and the aka

Obama's office just told me that since the vote is only coming up in the House on Friday,

a) Senator Obama "can't do much about it", and

b) There's no real emergency

I submit that it is incumbent upon YOU, now that I've mistakenly followed your linky, to tell me how to clean vomit out of my keyboard.

Am I grasping at straws?

While my Democratic colleagues and I sell out the U.S. Constitution via a FISA "compromise" that guarantees telco immunity.

They immediately switch you over to the speaker's voice mail to leave a message.

It's a Pelosi/Hoyer decision what legislation reaches the floor, and all Conyers can do is vote against it.

Telling me how he's opted out of Public financing, and urging me to help.

You've got to be kidding me. Timing is everything.

...what about HILLARY!? She could really make some news with this issue.

Yes, I know, in her heart of hearts, she's probably irritated that Steny negotiated his own little sweetheart deal without her. But if she could be convinced that it was in HER OWN best interests to come out strong against telco immunity, what do you think she'd do?

Yes, I'm grasping.

I'm hot for Lara Logan.

But that's neither here nor there.

I posed as an upstate-New Yorker (easy, since I grew up there), and gave the staffer my best "Hillary could steal a lot of thunder" spiel.

F*ck!ng Hoyer.

F*ck!ng Pelosi.

F*ck!ng Democrats.

F*ck!ng OBAMA!

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/obama_spokesman_i_dont_know_hi.php

or click sig for linky

Obama Spokesman: I Don't Know His Stance On FISA

Number me among those who've contacted the Obama campaign, asked to be removed from their contact database, vowed to pledge no further funds for ANY DemoCRAPS...

and plans on sitting home election day.