FISA Opponents Create Group On Obama’s Web Site
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Law, TechnologySome may see this as a negative, but one benefit to Obama having social networking available for his supporters is it gives people an opportunity to state their opposition. Obama probably won’t change his position, but at least people feel that they have a voice, and can find likeminded people to organize and spread the word.
Here’s more via TPM:
Over on Barack Obama’s Web site, someone has set up a new social networking group devoted solely to getting Obama to oppose the FISA bill he announced his support for earlier this week.It’s got almost 500 members, which is dwarfed by other MyBo groups, though it’s only been existence for 24 hours. This is perhaps suggestive of what this machinery could be used for on occasion if Obama makes it into the White House.
The group, called “Senator Obama - Please Vote Against FISA” is now 551 members strong since TPM posted about it an hour ago.
More as it develops…
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June 28th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Repeal FISA is up and running. Anyone who wants to is welcome to sign up and become a blogger on it. The purpose of the blog is to organize a drive to repeal the FISA laws and all laws that pardon or give immunity from prosecution anyone who has violated the Constitution during the Bush Administration.
That is why we want everyone to be able to Post so they can start a conversation about an idea they have to make this happen.
Stop on by and check it out. By all means leave a comment and sign up to blog with us as we figure out what needs to be done to return our Fourth Amendment Rights and our rule of law.
If you have a blog already and you become a poster we will link to your site.
http://repealfisa.wordpress.com/
repealfisa@gmail.com
June 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Sorry… but any politician that must have his arm twisted to oppose FISA doesn’t deserve your vote or your time. In view of Obama’s flip to the right, this voter will not support him in any way, shape, or form. If you want to get his attention, don’t join a group on his blog… unsubscribe from his email list, tell him why, refuse to work for him, and vote third party in the fall. If enough of us would do that, maybe we could toss all these slimy, lying politicians. Obama is a sell-out.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
[...] I covered this back on June 27th, and at that time the group had around 550 members. What a difference a week makes, eh? [...]
July 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
[...] note, this group started around June 27th, so it has grown to this size in less than two weeks. Also, the pace of members joining seems to be [...]