Obama reconsidered

Obama is meriting some reconsideration, with his recent decisions to opt out of public financing, and to support telecom immunity in the FISA bill.  I had been impressed by his rhetoric regarding change, unity, and the “Audacity of Hope”.  Something made me put aside my usual skepticism that politicians can actually care about more than obtaining and retaining power.  But I guess the system got to him.  So he’ll win because he can raise more money than God, which is just how everyone else wins.  And he’ll win because he’ll give in to corporations and their special interests, which is just how everyone else wins.  Standing up for the little guy, huh?  I can’t overstate how angry this FISA thing makes me.  Immunity for telecoms, which gives them even less incentive to treat us – their customers – with any semblance of respect.  Might as well just forward all my email directly to the NSA.  I’m voting for George Washington.

~ by ashok on July 2, 2008.