It's like ray-eee-ain on your wedding day

On my way home from work, I was stopped at a red light and noticed that the car in front of me had two bumper stickers.

One of them said "Got Hope?" in big letters, and I knew even before reading the smaller text underneath that it was a Barack Obama sticker.

The other consisted of the following fantastic quote, which happens to be one of my favorites:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Oh, the irony. I almost wanted to get out of my car, tap on his window, and ask him if he knows that Barack Obama voted to renew the patriot act a few short years ago. The patriot act is pretty much the embodiment of what Franklin warned against, and the fact that this moron had both of these bumper stickers on his car shows that he lacks a basic understanding of the things he so proudly claims to believe in. I've found that most Obama supporters either don't know about his vote for the patriot act or have deluded themselves into thinking that it was somehow ok for him to completely compromise what he claims to stand for.

I also would have liked to point out to him that Obama is failing again by supporting the latest FISA bill and by refusing to stand against the attempts to grant retroactive immunity to telecom companies for cooperation with illegal warrantless wiretapping.

If you follow the link above, take note of who voted nay on the re-authorization: particularly Russ Feingold and Chris Dodd, both of whom have also been opposing the recent FISA bill and telecom immunity attempts. Not just opposing it with words, but opposing it through their actions. I'm quickly gaining respect for both of those men. They're showing what it truly means to be a leader in Congress and to stand up for what you believe is right. Obama could learn a lot by watching them.