Story Of Anti-FISA Group On Obama's Web Site Goes National
The networking group set up on MyBarackObama.com to oppose Obama's support for the FISA cave-in started as a mere trickle last week. But the group has grown and grown, and now it's gone national with a story about it in this morning's New York Times:
Senator Barack Obama's decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration's program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters.Thousands of them are now using the same grass-roots organizing tools previously mastered by the Obama campaign to organize a protest against his decision.
In recent days, more than 7,000 Obama supporters have organized on a social networking site on Mr. Obama's own campaign Web site. They are calling on Mr. Obama to reverse his decision...
Today's New York Post also has a story today on this that generously quotes yours truly. I hear another reporter for a major national daily is working on a story on it for tomorrow.
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