Two days ago, I wrote about the position Obama had managed to pander himself into. The MoveOn crowd demanded that he vow to filibuster the latest version of the FISA Bill. This is what I wrote then:<\/p>\n
Last fall he vowed to not only not support FISA reform that includes any kind of immunity; he made the MoveOn crowd swoon by promising to go after the telecoms and administration legally.<\/p>\n So to answer the question of whether or not he\u2019s planning to filibuster the bill; no frigging way.<\/p>\n He may be the Messiah to the far left base but he is JV in the Senate. <\/strong><\/p>\n According to the Washington Post <\/a>today, I was 100% correct:<\/p>\n Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party’s base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week, despite misgivings about legal provisions for telecommunications corporations that cooperated with the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program of suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n In so doing, Obama sought to walk the fine political line between GOP accusations that he is weak on foreign policy — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called passing the legislation a “vital national security matter” — and alienating his base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Back in January his position was loudly applauded by the far lefties. Here is a sample comment from Firedog Lake:<\/p>\n He also wants Guantanamo closed yesterday, the signing statements to end and the “Unitary Executive” mindset dumped. He will advocate to end these illegal wiretaps, and make it clear to the American public that we don’t need to sacrifice our freedoms to be safe.<\/p>\n Our Constitution is in good hands with a President Obama. His knowledge and commitment to the Constitution was my primary reason for supporting him. If you have a President who not only “gets it” but is a expert on the Constitution—so many of the BushCo wrongs will be righted the day that person takes office.<\/p>\n Very, very pleased to hear this and I look forward to more stellar, patriotic decisions like this from Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course that was when there was still a primary to be won and he had to stay left of Hillary Clinton. And the childish clowns on the far left swooned over every socialist position the Messiah announced.<\/p>\n