Bob Fertik has a nifty idea:
Now we are asking you to use your money to ensure that Barack Obama lives up to his promise to deliver "change we can believe in. "
How? By creating a progressive "escrow" fund that you control.
Many progressives were shocked last week when Obama flip-flopped on wiretapping immunity for the phone companies with this simple explanation:
"My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people."
So if a President unilaterally decides it is in the "security interests of the American people" to defy the Constitution, the Law, and Congress, (s)he can do whatever (s)he wants?
George Bush believes that, as do Dick Cheney and John McCain - and every dictator in the world. How is that progressive? And how is that change we can believe in?
Don't get me wrong: we fully support Obama and will do everything we can to elect him President. But will also do everything we can to protect the Constitution and hold Obama to his promise of real progressive change.
And that's why we are launching our Obama Progressive Escrow Fund. We're asking you to put some of the money you plan to give Obama "in escrow" until he demonstrates progressive leadership on the issues we care about, like warrantless wiretapping.
http://www.democrats.com/obama-escrow-fund
We are absolutely not trying to hurt Obama - we'll give him our money at some point. We're just asking for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T like Aretha Franklin sang about.
I hope that account is interest-bearing, since I have the feeling we're going to be waiting for a l-o-o-o-o-o-n-g time!
Still, it's something to tell the telemarketers!
- lambert's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- 1+[CSE]+#b94+
Front page
Comments
Money is speech
Now that relatively small donors have figured out how to bundle money in ways that can have an effect, I wonder how long it will be before the Supreme Court discovers that campaign contributions are bribery instead of free speech.
As I've rejoined the leverage crowd, I have to ask...
How much leverage is there in "we'll give him our money at some point"?
Not we may, we might, or we would, but we will give him our money.
"At some point..."
Like, when Hell freezes over?
[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
i don't he's trustworthy enough to do
anything more than just switch positions again with no intention of following thru-- and he's holding million dollar fundraisers every other day now too --
"... But Mr. Obama’s stepped-up schedule of big-money fund-raisers — the campaign has more than a dozen events planned over the next two weeks — showcases a formidable high-dollar donor network ..." -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/politics/03donate.html
Obama Switching positions again...
with a page torn out of the GWB playbook: Let the news out late before the weekend:
Obama Might ‘Refine’ Iraq Withdrawal Timeline
don't waste your time w/escrow-he's reaffirming his FISA
stance now-- http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7...
Kos is full of very pissed-off diaries--many of them.
Obama holds WORM presser to clear up earlier change statement-
The Change Candidate changing before our very eyes.
Damn.
Protean* Man, babeeeeee!!!!
*Very variable; easily changing; or continually changing
Change comes in a crock? Who knew!
BTD has Obama's odious statement. These are my two favorite parts:
Translation: You've got no place to go.MR SUBLIMINAL Now send money.
[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi