06.22.08
Now Leaving Jonestown
Glenn Greenwald, who makes online comments on his own work using false names, nevertheless recognizes —or, perhaps, naturally recognizes— how “deeply unprincipled” is Obama’s flip-flop on the FISA compromise bill (emphasis mine):
People who spent the week railing against Steny Hoyer as an evil, craven enabler of the Bush administration — or who spent the last several months identically railing against Jay Rockefeller — suddenly changed their minds completely when Barack Obama announced that he would do the same thing as they did. What had been a vicious assault on our Constitution, and corrupt complicity to conceal Bush lawbreaking, magically and instantaneously transformed into a perfectly understandable position, even a shrewd and commendable decision, that we should not only accept, but be grateful for as undertaken by Obama for our Own Good.
Hmmm. Looks like Glenn’s Kool-Aid may need a little more sugar to help it go down.
