Netroots feel jilted by Obama's FISA stand
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Netroots feel jilted by Obama's FISA stand
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 6/25/08 6:53 PM EST Text Size:
Barack Obama's support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies - a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster - has ended his honeymoon with the progressive Netroots.
When former Sen. John Edwards dropped out of the presidential race, the progressive Netroots took their affections to Barack Obama, defending him against attack from Hillary Rodham Clinton and others.
But with his support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies - a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster - the honeymoon has ended.
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Senate FISA Roll Call
Netroots feel jilted by Obama's FISA stand
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 6/25/08 6:53 PM EST Text Size:
Barack Obama's support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies - a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster - has ended his honeymoon with the progressive Netroots.
When former Sen. John Edwards dropped out of the presidential race, the progressive Netroots took their affections to Barack Obama, defending him against attack from Hillary Rodham Clinton and others.
But with his support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies - a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster - the honeymoon has ended.
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