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OBama, FISA and national security

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Arghh squared.  Once again, pasting text has gone awry.

If this version isn't complete, see the comment to my previous attempt.  It's all there.


Whatever the arguments for and against Obama’s support of HR6304 (with or without telecom immunity), Obama's stated position raises some deep, but hopefully temporary, concerns about his approach to executive power and national security.

Note: having these concerns doen't mean I no longer support Obama, or that McCain has risen in my estimation a nanometer. Obama has rightly made an issue of the current Administration’s obsessive focus on unilateral military action as a means of securing our national interests abroad.  I believe that an Obama Administration would advance our interests multilaterally, and on a broad diplomatic and economic front.  Where military action is warranted, as in


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