Obama Staff "Literally Reviewing FISA as we speak"

[Hope And Change]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/19/172928/234/413/538615

[MissWaverly]

1. Go Obama, glad I sent in my donations

I am putting on my neat Obama button and running upstairs to get my Obama t-shirt, I called Steny Hoyer's office, (got
a standard response (YAWNS in the background), sent letter to my Rep. Elijah Cummings(D-7th), who I respect, he is a native of Baltimore City. I will be really glad to have Obama put some pressure on Nancy Pelosi and Steny H. Hoyer (D-5th), our representative from the Maryland burbs.

:-)

[JimGinPA]

2. Good!

K&R

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Good job!

[Catherina]

4. Is this related to the disappointment about the Barrow endorsement?

I'm curious.


Gosh they're good.

[caledesi]

5. Fired up. Ready to go! NT

[kentuck]

6. I hope he comes up with the right response...

The Party will follow his lead.

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. What does he need to review it for? To vote Yea this time instead of not vote?

[gkhouston]

10. he voted in February...

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00015

[Guaranteed]

8. This is great. nt

[MasonJar]

9. A little late I'd say. He should have been out front against the immunity

a long time ago. He is the leader now.

[karynnj]

13. I believe that he and several other Senators running

all had a letter saying they were against immunity.

[TheWraith]

19. He HAS been against it. He's been publicly opposing it since February. nt

[Orsino]

25. I've been hoping , though, for one of his famously enthralling speeches on the subject.

I think he could turn it around; he's that persuasive.

[Tatiana]

11. I'd love to see Obama and Clinton jointly take a firm, public stand against immunity.

Time to put pressure on all the Blue Dogs, Steny Hoyer, and Rockefeller.

[Marie26]

12. Don't hold your breath waiting for Obama

If he was going to release a statement on this bill, he'd already have done it. The vote is TOMORROW - call your Representative to oppose it.

Email Congress here - http://www.stopthespying.org/

[Hope And Change]

14. Kick!

[jgraz]

15. They're reviewing it NOW?? Didn't Obama know this was coming?

You mean the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader didn't give the nominee advance notice of their capitulation on this? You think they didn't already run this by him?

[Hope And Change]

16. Absolutely.I`m with you.

[TheWraith]

20. What do you want? They just decided that they were going to have the vote YESTERDAY.

Even if he got advance notice, that's still a lot of stuff for the campaign to look over.

[MrCoffee]

21. I think the bigger question is why are they having the vote at all?

Why are Pelosi and Reid in such a rush to pass this bill?

[jgraz]

24. Bingo -- I can't believe they're trying to just slip this in under Obama's radar.

Obama knows what they're doing. He had to have given some sort of approval for this to happen.

[jgraz]

23. He's a constitutional law expert. You think this isn't a big issue for him?

[IndyOp]

17. That was yesterday afternoon - Thursday, June 19th at 2:42 p.m.

Obama has since come out against the bill - I read somewhere here at DU last night. Sorry I don't have time to find the link for you, I have to go teach a class.

:hi:

[Hope And Change]

18. Ok.Thanks for the update!

[EVDebs]

22. Right now I feel as if Obama's group is a 'shadow govt'

Because the main reason I'm voting for him is his promise to investigate the crimes of Bush & Co. The Constitution is down to just the third amendment, according to Keith Olbermann's analysis, they've shredded the rest with executive orders and defense bills that remove habeas corpus, and enact martial law at the whim of fools.

God help us.

[uponit7771]

26. What is Pelosi et al get out of the "compromise" (aka copitulation) ?

I can't tell and this "compromise" BS is just that...BS