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Ever since 9/11, this Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. … Secrecy must not trump accountability. ... I share your commitment to this cause, and will stand with you in the fights to come.

Barack Obama, 08/01/2007

 

 

Which would you rather have …

 

A.)     President Obama without the new FISA bill

 

B.)      President Obama with the new FISA bill

 

C.)     President McCain without the new FISA bill

 

D.)     President McCain with the new FISA bill

 

 

If you honestly believe that our country is better off with A than B, then why on earth are you working so hard to tell everybody to shut up about FISA?

 

If your argument is that it’s a necessary evil in order to get Obama to the White house, you have accepted the false choice of FISA …

 

Obama must support FISA or the big bad Republicans will smear him as soft on terror and that will be insurmountable in terms of winning the election

 

That’s a position of fear, of handing power to your opponent, and finally it just plain doesn’t hold up.  Do you actually believe that if FISA passes as is, that the Republicans will not attack Obama as soft on terror.  Do you honestly believe that having taken a principled stand to oppose and defeat the FISA bill that this fact alone will sway an undecided voter that Obama is ‘soft on terror’?  Do you think that voter would have been untarnished by other false Republican smears and would have voted for Obama otherwise?  Sorry folks it just doesn’t add up.

 

Obama promised to ‘change the way things are done in Washington’.  He’s in Washington now.  He can demonstrate that change now, by standing up for the people and the Constitution.  People, if he’s afraid of the Republicans now, that isn’t going to change.  We’re going to get one capitulation after the next if we don’t forcefully demonstrate that we expect him to keep his word, to us, that I “will stand with you in the fights to come”.   Stand now Senator -  and stop kneeling in front of the Republican altar of security trumping liberty.

Ever since 9/11, this Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. … Secrecy must not trump accountability. ... I share your commitment to this cause, and will stand with you in the fights to come.

Barack Obama, 08/01/2007

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Which would you rather have …

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A.)     President Obama without the new FISA bill

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B.)      President Obama with the new FISA bill

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C.)     President McCain without the new FISA bill

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D.)     President McCain with the new FISA bill

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If you honestly believe that our country is better off with A than B, then why on earth are you working so hard to tell everybody to shut up about FISA?

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If your argument is that it’s a necessary evil in order to get Obama to the White house, you have accepted the false choice of FISA …

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Obama must support FISA or the big bad Republicans will smear him as soft on terror and that will be insurmountable in terms of winning the election

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That’s a position of fear, of handing power to your opponent, and finally it just plain doesn’t hold up.  Do you actually believe that if FISA passes as is, that the Republicans will not attack Obama as soft on terror.  Do you honestly believe that having taken a principled stand to oppose and defeat the FISA bill that this fact alone will sway an undecided voter that Obama is ‘soft on terror’?  Do you think that voter would have been untarnished by other false Republican smears and would have voted for Obama otherwise?  Sorry folks it just doesn’t add up.

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Obama promised to ‘change the way things are done in Washington’.  He’s in Washington now.  He can demonstrate that change now, by standing up for the people and the Constitution.  People, if he’s afraid of the Republicans now, that isn’t going to change.  We’re going to get one capitulation after the next if we don’t forcefully demonstrate that we expect him to keep his word, to us, that I “will stand with you in the fights to come”.   Stand now Senator -  and stop kneeling in front of the Republican altar of security trumping liberty.

I can't help but notice the parellism between the geral tactics of the Republican neo-con base and the defenders of Sen. Obama's FISA surrender.

The Republicans  want the voters to ignore their civil liberties and shove aside the Democrats so that the Republicans can save us from 'tehe terrorists'

The Obama apologists want us to ignore our 4th amendment rights and give a blank check to Sen. Obama on any position he takes so that Obama can save us from the terrors of a McCain administration.

Both tactics are calculated to speak to our fears instead of our principles, to ignore the reality of specific issues in favor of the safety from the bogeyman, be he Bin-Laden or McCain.