Trashing the Base

It is the season when, in the old kinda politics, a candidate who knows he's going to be the party's nominee starts dumping on the people who got him the nomination and moving toward the center. It appears that things are no different in the new kinda politics.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.

This is nothing, of course, compared to Barack's grotesque betrayal of everything he's claimed to believe in by opting out of public financing, but this hits at the heart of the moonbat wing of the party that actually fell for Barack's salespitch on change.

In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party's base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week, despite misgivings about legal provisions for telecommunications corporations that cooperated with the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program of suspected terrorists.

Not that they'll say boo. They're in love, and love is blind.

"Given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as president, I will carefully monitor the program," Obama said in a statement hours after the House approved the legislation 293-129.

A show of hands please. Who trusts the pledges made by this slippery character?