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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Largest Group on Obama's Site Urges FISA 'No'

clipped from rawstory.com

Barack Obama supporters urging the Illinois senator to vote against a pending surveillance law have formed the largest group on the Democratic presidential candidate's social networking Web site, my.barackobama.com.

The group, "Senator Obama - Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity - Get FISA Right," had more than 14,500 members as of Thursday morning. The group formed last Wednesday, June 25, making it perhaps the fastest growing user-generated group on the page. Sometime around 8 p.m. Wednesday, the group became No. 1 in overall membership, surpassing "Action Wire," the campaign-created group that is designed to fight smears and rumors hurled at Obama.

"Senator Obama, the my.BarackObama.com caption reads, 'I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington… I'm asking you to believe in yours,'" the letter says. "We're ready to put these words into practice."

Seems to me that Obama can deal with this pretty easily. Vote 'no' on telcom immunity say it's on behalf of his constituency. People do this all the time.

There's no downside -- only partisans care about immunity and they've already picked sides. He'd alienate no one.

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