There's a great article on this over at http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/07/02/is-there-anything-worth-defending/ of all places.  Directly addresses the point of whether the matter is trivial, damaging, or worthwhile to debate among Obama partisans.  Definitely worth your time

I brought this up in a comment on another post, but I think it deserves a post of its own.

There has been a tenuous thread wending its way through the posts at TPM that the sudden appearance of previously unseen posters castigating Obama indicates some sort of organized Republican trolling operation.   I don’t buy it.  To me it’s blogospheric paranoia.  It’s a fearful position and it excuses the holder from examining any other motivation.  I think this sprouting of new voices signals something much deeper, and far more positive.

Speaking for myself, I have been reading TPM for a long time but only recently began posting.  The reason I did is because this issue crosses the line in terms of allowing me to luxuriate in my ‘lurkingness’.  And by issue I mean two distinct things, although intertwined.

1. The vast balance of contents (not just immunity) of the FISA bill with its nefarious widening erosion of our civil liberties, and
2. Obama’s complete about-face on his commitment to veto ‘any bill containing immunity’.

If I expect my candidate to stand tall and fight, then I damn well better be willing to do the same – if only to demonstrate the necessity of doing so.

So I decided to start posting and to call Obama out on his surrender and let him know it is unacceptable.

I’m not limiting my response to TPM, or to the blogosphere in general and I encourage and exhort everyone else to take the additional steps I have taken.  I have written the Obama campaign directly.  I respond to each email request for donations with an explanation that no funds will be donated until Obama publicly opposes FISA.  I have joined the group on his web site asking him to stand up to FISA - http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA

The emergence of posters like myself means this issue has hit a nerve.  It’s not some trolling operation but rather a genuine recognition that is issue is critical and that a large number of heretofore silent Obama supporters will not abide his cave-in on this.  That’s important for him to know and in doing so it is not a sign of weakness.

Efforts to portray this as trolling, or talking family business out into the street are ill considered and reflect a failure of arguments on the merits of accepting the FISA bill.