Comments on: Barack Obama Statement on FISA

By: negemail53@gmail.com

negemail53@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:02:14 +0000

Dont know how many others are as incensed as I am about these chain emails being sent to religious groups and others that question Sen. Barack Obamas patriotism and religious beliefs. (See press link to last weeks open letter from Jewish groups being bombarded with these emails: http://www.adl.org/internet/Letter_obama.asp)

The use of the Internet to spread false information about a political candidate— and thus to affect the outcome of an election— is particularly abhorrent to me.

We cannot regress to old-style dirty tricks. In the public interest, we need to get behind these emails—and identify who originated them.

If you have received such an email, please forward it to me.

negemail53@gmail.com

By: dsalexan

dsalexan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:37:15 +0000

I believe [recollect] that Bush recently sent out a memo to executive agencies instructing them to adhere to any terms within his signing statements that were applicable [poss also referred to other memoranda to be sent separately], such that he is pressuring agencies to desist from moving forward on any funded item that he disagrees with.

It’s all a bit blurry now but it was a truly disgusting read.

By: jayackroyd

jayackroyd — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:05:18 +0000

It’s worth remembering that there is no constituency, none, for telecom amnesty. There is nobody, other than telecom shareholders or executive who benefits from this. Withholding amnesty has no effect whatsoever on national security. The only purpose is to protect the administration from scrutiny.

By: CarolynU

CarolynU — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:14:36 +0000

Great statement.

By: Larue

Larue — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:31:18 +0000

A well done to Jane, Greenwald (thanks for the email) and FDL on this one.

WHO shifted and were swayed? Blue Dogs?

Unfortunately, Senator Feinstein won’t take my calls, and only responds with dribble to my emails. *G*

By: wigwam

wigwam — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:25:55 +0000

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....2/14/reid/

See above. I was writing a long reply and it got wiped out, but most everything I had to say is in the Glenzilla posting cited above.

By: Mukei

Mukei — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:20:24 +0000

His injury in the War, and wearing his medals to the hearing, made all the more meaningful his questioning of North, who had sold weapons to a government that was by any measure, short of open warfare, an enemy of the United States, and then used the profits to illegally fund insurgents in Nicaragua.

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:15:44 +0000

Dodd made the statement today taht we need to have the opportunity…blocked by Rethugs…to fix the FISA law. Would that happen if it went back to committees for rewording and addressing the problems Dodd sees. Will you and bmaz and cboldt be compfortable with what details. Marcy would sure add to the discussion as well as Christy.
May I call for a another thread you all could do tomorrow before the vote. We have no direction on what to ask of our congress critters now unless oppose any bill/amendment and tackle it back in committee.
I see Reid asking Bancy to rush something tomorrow that shrub will like.?

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:15:12 +0000

Not to harp or anything, but I don’t see how nuking the earmarks now is in Team W’s interest, PAA-wise. Ain’t gonna help keep the R’s together any.

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:14:22 +0000

I think it was Tweety that mentioned it, Siun! Impeachment would be pure sweetness, but, not the means to rectify that abomination of stripping earmarks out… Aloha!