Can someone explain why I should feel good about Obama's stand on wiretapping and secrecy?

[BigBearJohn]

I agree with most people here who support Obama and want to give him time
before making any judgements. However, if he makes a bad decision right
out of the gate, how do you reconcile that? I honestly expected more from a
constitutional scholar. A dear old friend used to say, "What good is it
if someone offers you an ice cream cone in one hand and throws a brick
with the other?"

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Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters.

Thousands are now using the same grass-roots organizing tools previously mastered by the Obama campaign to organize a protest against his decision.

In recent days, more than 7,000 Obama supporters have organized on a social networking site on Obama’s own campaign Web site. They are calling on him to reverse his decision to endorse legislation supported by President George W. Bush to expand the government’s domestic spying powers while also providing legal protection to the telecommunications companies that worked with the National Security Agency’s domestic wiretapping program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

During the Democratic primary campaign, Obama vowed to fight such legislation to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. But he has switched positions and now supports a compromise hammered out between the White House and the Democratic congressional leadership. The bill is expected to come to a vote on the Senate floor on Tuesday.

SOURCE: http://dyallo.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/obamas-wiretapping-stand-enrages-many/

[McCamy Taylor]

1. Not me.

[L. Coyote]

9. I doubt it.

But, "Intern from world's largest corporate law firm is President" might be a start.

[Demeter]

2. Me Neither

I am alarmed by it.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Because it is Obama (D) and not Bush (R)

That makes all the difference. :eyes:

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. .

:evilgrin:

[disndat]

7. Yes!

As long as Democrats are now spying on Republicans it's perfectly ok. LOL. Wonder what Mitch McConnell, John Boehner will have to say? And if it gets to the Supreme Court, how will Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Alito vote?

[ima_sinnic]

4. can someone give this Luddite a link to the "social networking site"

on "Obama's own campaign Web site" that the article is referencing?

If it is on change.gov, that site is no longer functioning. Does anybody know? I would even finally involve myself in "social networking" for this issue.

[Marrah_G]

5. People who put aside the issues they have been advocating for for years...

...just because a (D) is in office are hypocrites.

[HughMoran]

8. No support from me on this

I'm not sure what he's doing on this issue, but it looks just plain wrong.

[QC]

10. It's OK when our guy does it. n/t

[Echo In Light]

11. Institutional collusion, and neither party will ever break from obedience and servitude...

When it comes to supporting the National $ecurity State ruse {and guess who its real "enemies" are? ...that's why the police state BS isn't going away anytime soon}