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Obama sold out on FISA in order to take the UNPOPULAR position. That is not only craven, it is stupid. The ACLU did a poll, conducted by Steny Hoyer's pollster, that shows that voters across party lines oppose the contents of this FISA bill.
If Obama wasn't a pussy he'd be attacking McCain on FISA not capitulating like a coward. I'm afraid that Obama simply doesn't have the stones to beat the Republican noise machine. All of his frightened "centrism" (center my ass) is so much ammunition that he could use to go on offense that he is just throwing away.
Note to all of you deluded centrists who think you are realists: the model of running away from your base and being frightened of the opposition that you always tout is precisely the opposite of what led to the Republican party's incredible success over the last 30 years. You people are not only unprincipled cowards -- you're incompetent Machiavellians.
