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Who's Side Do I Take ? My Candidate or My Senator ?
I'm torn. On the one hand , I see where my senator, Russell Feingold is coming from , but I also see where my candidate, Barack Obama is coming from. Now, this is not about which one I agree with the most or who I trust on the issues the most because the truth is, I agree with them both the exact same. Neither has been perfect. I mean, Russ voted for Chief Justice Roberts and Obama didn't. But Obama is helping to pay off Hillarys debt soooo....
Like I said, neither of these two are perfect and even Sen. Russ Feingold pretty much admitted that he sort of understood where Sen. Barack Obama and others were coming from in an interview with the Young Turks. Feingold said that basically , the argument may be that we should just compromise now, and wait till we have a Democratic President and let him fix it rather than have this fight.
Feingold stated that he thought the approach was wrong even though he expressed that understood it. At the same time, what Barack Obama is saying is that this compromise , even though it doesn't go far enough in that it still grants immunity to Telecom , at the very least , outs and end to some of the worst provisions that had allowed Bush to break the Law.
I personaly am going to withold judgement untill I watch CSpan later today and see what both my senator and my candidate do and what all transpires because as of now, no votes have been taken on this bill, only lots of speculation. But part of me is with Sen. Russ Feingold and part of me understands where Sen. Barack Obama is coming from.



Period.
The Democratic Party caved again; less these 15 Honorable Senators. Even with the GOP in free fall and the potential to get it right with a new president (Obama) in 2009.
This was one more failure, in a long string of failures, to stand up to the GOP.
Before Hillary supporters jump on Obama, she wasn't in that list of 15 either.
With a Democratic President, the remainder of the Democratic Congress may finally locate its backbone.