By GottaLaff
NOTE: I changed the title, it was misleading.
It's being spread that Barack Obama supports the FISA Bill. Randi Rhodes just read his statement, in which he opposes it in no uncertain terms.
UPDATE:
I'm confused. Now I see this. Still poking around.
Which contradicts this, from January.
UPDATE:
H/t Commenter Mainsailset for this (who posted a copy of Obama's e-mail statement) from Booman:
On MSNBC, where Rachel Maddow is substitute host today, they're saying that Democrats are angry, but that generally, Democrats are also less concerned about riling their own base than riling the Republicans. Booman's commenters are angry, and they're Dems. Example:Let's start with the positive news. Obama will work in the Senate to remove the retroactive immunity portion of this bill. Let me be clear about something. If Obama wants the Dems in the caucus to filibuster the bill, it will be filibustered. 'Working' to remove immunity means nothing unless it is removed. It will not be removed unless the bill is killed altogether. Obama can't play us for fools here.
He's also totally wrong about this bill's merits for oversight. I'm a little too angry right now to blog responsibly, so I'll just leave it at that for now. All I can say is that Obama's 'work' in the Senate better be 'work we can believe in'.
I had also heard the talking heads (it might have even been Thom Hartmann) say, right after Obama's nomination, that he would move to the right (meaning, more centrist) and that some of us should prepare ourselves. This must have been what he was talking about.Change. What change?
Obama clinched the nomination and has moved right of center.
He'd better not keep this up.