Oh Jesus, Obama caved on FISA

Yep, as we enter the general election, there will be times when I disagree with the man. (That fucks up your retard meme about Obamaniacs and blind allegiance, doesn’t it? Haha, you idiot.) But yeah, he caved on the bill, he’s willing to support the bill even if telecom immunity isn’t removed…which is really insane, from a purely Constitutional perspective. Here’s what he said:

“The bill has changed. So I don’t think the security threats have changed, I think the security threats are similar. My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.”

I respectfully disagree, Senator Obama, and would suggest that the removal of telecom immunity has nothing to do with security threats. This is simply politics. La di fucking dah.

This is the thing, though, as John Cole points out:

From a voting perspective, nothing really changes. McCain is for it, Hillary would have been, now Obama is. Obama is still the better of the three on a wider range of issues.

Yeah. This is what’s funny, though. Another one of the memes going around (as it does every four years) is that Obama is the “most liberal Senator.” Anyone who believes that is a fool, or possesses an extremely short memory, considering the fact that four years ago, John Kerry was magically the “most liberal Senator.” Any time the Democratic nominee is a Senator, he/she will be the “most liberal Senator.” But what’s funny is that people actually believe it about Obama, and they reveal that they’ve never studied his voting record, or that they can’t read, when they say that. Barack Obama’s record is what one would call “center-left.” Not very extreme at all. Anyway.

I’m not as pissed about this as some of the progressive bloggers are, honestly. Considering the doctrine of “You’ve got to dance with them what brung you,” I’m fairly confident that President Obama will be held accountable by we progressives who pay attention. Right now, the important thing is winning, and I have a feeling there’s a strategy at play here. John McCain, to all in the fact-based community, is untested and untried on matters of foreign policy and homeland security (Yes…getting captured isn’t “foreign policy experience”), yet, being a Republican, he gets to use the lie that Republicans are stronger on national security. It’s a ludicrous claim, of course, when one looks at Teh Facts, but most Americans don’t do that, do they? So it’s possible that he may have to “play a little politics,” simply so he doesn’t hand McCain’s desperate faltering campaign anything they could use against him in appealing to the not-paying-very-close-attention masses. I’m willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, until his inauguration.

That being said, John Cole appended this to his post on the subject, and I really couldn’t say it any better, so if you’re a disgruntled Hilltard, a Republi-tard, or god forbid, a Paultard, and you’re licking the cheeto powder off your fingers so you can type some dumbass bullshit, listen up first:

Obligatory Troll Protection: No, I don’t have buyers remorse, yes, he still is better than Hillary or McCain, no, I am not disillusioned (I never thought he was a flaming liberal in the first place). I am, however, disgusted, and I will caution the Obama campaign that “better than McCain” is not much of a rallying cry. We all remember how “anything is better than Bush” turned out in 2004.

You should be reading John Cole’s blog, by the way. He’s one of the really, really good ones.