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Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move
ya really notes a blog posting up at Wired reporting that foes of the Telecom Amnesty Bill have mounted a campaign on Barack Obama's own website. Though the group was created only days ago, on June 25, it has grown to be the fifth largest among 7,000 such groups, just short of Women for Obama. Although it is widely known that Obama changed his stance from opposing telecom immunity to supporting it, many have not given up hope of getting him to switch once again. Meanwhile, left-leaning bloggers and libertarian activists have joined forces to raise $325,000 in the fight against the legislation. "Their Blue America PAC is already targeting House Democrats who voted for the bill, including placing a full-page ad in the Washington Post [an image appears in the Wired story] slamming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who claimed credit for creating the so-called compromise bill. The coalition plans to follow-up with a Ron Paul-style money bomb, which will be used to target key Senators..."
He's just a big a fear-mongering demagogue as anyone else. Ironic that the first black man running for President would adopt the same fear-baiting strategy that kept men like Ben Tillman, George Wallace, and Strom Thurmond in office for so long.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Rather than whining that the 'system isn't fair' and that 'oh no only people who have got off their arses and made a little money have any say' why don't you spend the time you would have spent pointlessly voting, take a look at the American Dream and start to do some work and earn some money so you can maybe, if you work hard enough, some day be able to afford some influence.
Maybe once you do you might think a little differently about letting lazy, good for nothing poor people run the country and make sure that everything you have worked hard for and earnt goes to do a little good for you and your family now and again.