Progressive Bumper Sticker » fisa http://progressivebumpersticker.com Writing about bumper stickers for progressives Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:40:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Why Did Barack Obama Turn His Back On the Constitution? http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/14/obama-pao/ http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/14/obama-pao/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:39:31 +0000 The Sticker http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/14/obama-pao/ Watch out, Barack Obama – progressives have endured seven years of hearing from Democratic politicians that the Democratic Party would stand up for strong progressive change, but only after the current election, during which certain compromises of progressive values would have to be made. Every time, after the election is over, we get the same excuses. They say that the Democrats can’t act now, that we need to wait, that they need just a little bit more power.

They must think we’re pretty stupid, because they’re trying to pull this trick on us again.

This time, Barack Obama promised unequivocally that he would filibuster the FISA Amendments Act and its retroactive immunity for telecommunications corporations that helped George W. Bush illegally spy on millions of law abiding Americans. Then, Obama went ahead and voted to kill the filibuster, and voted for the FISA Amendments Act.

Barack Obama turned his back on civil libertiesThis broken promise has inspired a huge progressive backlash against Barack Obama. It’s spawned bumper stickers like this one, asking, Why did Barack Obama turn his back on our civil liberties?

It’s also spawning a new network of anti-Obama web sites by political progressives. See Progressives Against Obama.

This FISA Amendments Act vote has got to be the most obtuse piece of political triangulation I have ever seen. It has cost Barack Obama his image as an idealist, lost him progressive votes, and hasn’t brought Obama any more support from Republicans.

If Obama loses the election, it will be the FISA Amendments Act that did him in.

It’s like Lucy, telling Charlie Brown that she promises to hold the ball still for him to kick this time.

Sorry Lucy, but you’ll have to find some other sucker to play around with.

]]> http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/14/obama-pao/feed/ 0 The Most I Can Muster Lately On a Barack Obama Bumper Sticker http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/07/the-most-i-can-muster-lately-on-a-barack-obama-bumper-sticker/ http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/07/the-most-i-can-muster-lately-on-a-barack-obama-bumper-sticker/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:20:50 +0000 The Sticker http://progressivebumpersticker.com/2008/07/07/the-most-i-can-muster-lately-on-a-barack-obama-bumper-sticker/ What with Barack Obama breaking his promise to actively oppose the FISA Amendments Act, I’m pretty downhearted about the Senator as a presidential candidate. The Constitution is kind of sort of the core document of our nation and all, and if he won’t protect and defend it, what can we depend on him to do?

This is the closest I can come to designing a pro-Obama bumper sticker lately:

Obama Sucks Less Bumper Sticker

Sigh. At least he’s not John McCain.

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