Slick Barry Obama and Democratic Shame

Today the Democrats in the Senate gave the drafters of the Constitution the finger, and passed the FISA bill with a grant of amnesty to the telecoms.

Barack Obama, despite repeated promises to filibuster against the bill, voted for it. Hillary Clinton voted nay. Obama , unlike McCain, thought it so important he be on record, interrupted his campaign to come in and stick it to the constitution.

Obama, in an argument worthy of Slick Willy's linguistic hair splitting over the definition of “sex” and meaning of "is," says the revised bill is a compromise that removes his objection to granting retroactive amnesty. I am sorry, that is just a lie. I don't think we need another president who thinks he is so smart, he can lie with impunity by playing bizarre lawyerly word games.

This is the same Barack Obama who campaigned on a promise to never vote for an extension of the Patriot Act. But once elected did just that. He is the guy who keeps making nuanced slippery linguistic refinements to get the votes of gays and lesbians.

This all comes on the heels of a ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco last week, who through a strange set of circumstances, became privy to a classified document, and ruled that it appeared the President had committed a federal felony in ordering domestic wiretapping.

So the legislation is also, effectively, a grant of amnesty to Bush, Gonzales, Ashcroft, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of them.

I am sure George Bush and Dick Cheney never imagined that a Democratically controlled congress would be their protector and savior. An attempt to get the same thing out of Bill Frist and the Republicans actually failed.

Today we saw an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment at the hands of the Democrats:




They did it only for political gain, which is why they should be buried.

Barack Obama is the most unprincipled one of all. He, a Harvard Law graduate, and former professor of Constitutional law, knows better.

But he just doesn't care. The Constitution , integrity and principles are secondary to the importance of putting him in office.

We don't need another president like that.



P.S.--

Today I received an email from Senator Chris Dodd:

Yesterday was a sad day for the United States Senate.

It is my hope that the courts will undo the damage done to the Constitution.

But let us stand tall, knowing that by working together we were able to make wiretapping and retroactive immunity part of the national discourse these last number of months.

We came together – all of you, Senator Feingold, bloggers like Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald, organizations like the EFF and ACLU, and untold hundreds of thousands of Americans who simply wanted to make sure that this one, last insult did not happen with ease.

I'm sorry we weren't successful.

I just hope I'm lucky enough to have you by my side in the next fight, whatever that may be.

Thanks for all you've done.

Chris Dodd