Posted on 06/28/2008 9:07:35 AM PDT by ricks_place
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.
Disappointed over his position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the online activists feel jilted and betrayed and have taken to questioning his progressive credentials. One prominent blogger, Atrios, has even given him the moniker “Wanker of the Day.”
“He broke faith,” said Matt Stoller, a political consultant and blogger at OpenLeft.com. “Obama pledged to filibuster, and he is part of that old politics, in this case, that he said he wasn’t. It will spur us to challenge him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
When anyone on the left makes a promise, it’s only good for one day ~ if that long.
ROFLOL! Surprise he’s a politician afterall who will say or do ANYTHING to be elected. Since Chicago politicians have a long reputation for not telling the truth I’m sure this will be just the first of many!
Maybe that's why he's only "Wanker of the day"
With these leftist folks, it’s their way or the highway.
When anyone on the left makes a promise, it’s only good for one day ~ if that long.
Which is worse? Breaking a promise or breaking faith? The demoncrats are certainly famous for the former. However, the repubicans have mastered the latter.
Fair to say, also, that God’s wrath falls harder on the latter.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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