I found this the other day at Joe.My.God. and it made me chuckle:
Then today, I read this post and discovered how true that little cartoon was. Obama voted to pass FISA with the telecom immunity. I can understand Gordon Smith doing something like that, because Gordon is a twat who doesn't want to get re-elected. But Barack fucking Obama? What the hell?
I gather most presidential candidates at various points during their campaigns have to pander to some extent toward the opposite end of whatever platform they're running on. That's really to be expected. In the United States today we are about as divided as we were back in the 1860s. This time it's not between Northern and Southern states, but between "Red states" and "Blue states." (Check out this article over at io9.com. It's interesting and depressing at the same time.)
With a country as divided as ours, it's no wonder that presidential candidates start reaching across the aisle as it were. (Of course, the Dems tend to lean to the Right much farther than any Republican would ever lean toward the Left. I imagine that has something to do with the Right's general refusal to budge any more than a nanometer on pretty much anything.) But what pisses me off particularly about Obama's pandering to the Right is that he seems to be confirming to all the hard-core conservatives out there that the only correct way is the Right way, effectively negating the concerns of the other 49% of the country that call ourselves Progressive.
So I'm pissed off at Obama for giving his yea vote to such an invasive (and no doubt unconstitutional) bill. I'm sure he did this as some sort of PR stunt in order to get votes from the uneducated backwater bumpkins in those Red states. This is not the guy I gave my vote to, is it?
We're so fucked.
