From a Wahr, a member at BarackObama.com:
Following the house's caving to the bush administration and telco briber.. i mean "campaign contributions" (4x on average than those who stood firm for the american people), I would have expected Obama, whose speeches on change exuded a Kennedy persona, to stand up in the spirit of Spitzer demanding this betrayal of the public trust end, and shaming those who continue to support the outright illegal activities of the Bush administration and their cronies.
Instead, Obama's camp quietly supports this, condescendingly trying to push it over on the american public as a "compromise". The definition of this word seems to have become skewed by extremist interest in recent years. There is no such thing as a "compromise" when what was originally demanded was fundamentally unreasonable. They broke the law, period. If they were not huge corporations, would we even be having this discussion?
Further, the already outrageously conciliatory announcement that he will seek amendments to remove such immunity was also a lie. He not only paid absolutely no attention to this in the senate, he refused to support democratic efforts to filibuster this.
To this life-long democrat, this is a spit in the face to the memories of Kennedy and Spitzer. It's a disgraceful betrayal of the american people, who in previous elections gave the democrats control of congress to stop the criminal abuses of the Bush administration.
If Obama is going to side with these spineless, cowardly betrayers of the public trust and allow this farce, which makes the pardoning of Nixon look outright heroic, to continue, I will be voting republican across the board despite the personal anguish it will mean.
If democrats refuse to grow a spine, if their main candidate wants to "change" things by helping corrupt telecoms get away with crime against the people on a massive scale, then I say the democrats need a rude awakening. After all, If the democrats are nothing but rubber stamps for republican policy, why not actually vote in real republicans! At least then I'll get what I was promised, even if that promise was to shaft me. I think america needs another 4 to 8 years of republican rule. Maybe then democrats will actually follow their own, left wing platform.
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Source: my.barackobama.com
