SOPA
As a major donor to Obama’s last campaign, I get my regularly-scheduled call of them trying to get me to be a bundler. For the last couple months, whenever they call, I tell them that SOPA is a very big deal to me, and I will not donate until he takes a position against it, as written now.
“I understand you have a pet issue,” the caller said, “but at the end of the day, we both know that we want Obama to get elected.”
There were a lot of things that I wanted to say right then, most of them started with the F word. I was kind of appalled. Of course, she’s probably right, but my want and my money are two very different things.
Eventually I calmed down enough to say: “Look. The internet is my livelihood, and this bill is evil. I don’t know what you do for a living, but if Obama wasn’t actively protecting you from a bill that could kill that living, I seriously doubt you’d be making this call to me right now.”
That finally got through to her.
The NDAA was awful enough. I feel embarrassed that that happened. I get it though. We needed to pass a defense appropriations bill. Pragmatism. Signing statements.
But this bill. We don’t even NEED it. It’s ridiculous. Even without the patently offensive, miserable parts of the bill, it is utterly unneeded.
