Well, that’s it. Barack Obama has failed to support the filibuster of H.R. 6304, the bill to gut the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and legalize warrantless wiretaps and physical searches. A number of people are asking themselves how they can support a presidential candidate who fails to protect and defend the Constitution […]

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Shakowsky said, “The Bush Administration has put forward the idea that Congress must choose between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I disagree wholeheartedly with this premise. The Congress can and must take stronger steps to protect the civil liberties of ever American, to do anything less is simply contrary to everything for which this country has stood.”

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Under this law, all the Bush White House has to do is present a piece of paper to a court claiming the privilege of granting legal immunity to a corporation, and then the court has no choice but to grant that immunity. Thanks to John Dingell for sharing this unfortunate truth.

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Barack Obama, who promised during the primaries to uphold the Constitution and end Bush’s spying programs if elected President, flip flopped and announced that he would support the law to allow government spying against American citizens without a search warrant. Then he added a real kicker - Obama said that he would continue the Bush spy programs if elected President. Obama said that he would “monitor” the spy programs himself - just like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney monitor them now.

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This is the section of the law that allows physical searches of your home or office at the President’s whim. It starts out looking like a protection from unreasonable physical searches, but please read all the way to the end. There, you’ll find a couple of clauses that strip away all protection from physical search without a warrant, and put the power right into the hands of the President’s top aides and political appointees.

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They found that George W. Bush and John McCain agree on an overwhelming majority of the issues - 80 percent. You don’t get much closer than that, so yes, it’s very fair to say that a vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years of Bush.

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