Yes We Can!

[macbdog]

As a Canadian, and as pretty much everyone who might read this is Canadian, this post might be kind of pointless.  But I'd like to take a minute to talk about the U.S. Presidential primaries, and specifically about Barack Obama.

I'm not sure how much people who read this follow U.S. politics.  I do, though, and for a couple of reasons.  Partially,

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[song_of_silence]

You might find this article interesting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/clinton-obama-and-clust_b_84811.html

[thespoom]

A very similar thing happened recently in regards to an amendment to the Protect America Act (I think? Had some trouble finding the name of the bill) that would strip out the sections of the bill that offer retroactive immunity to telecom companies that complied with the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.

Barack Obama voted for stripping the retroactive immunity portions. Hillary Clinton didn't vote at all.

Unfortunately the overall vote left the retroactive immunity portions in, but hopefully when it goes back to the House they'll vote them down.