Re:no, we wont give him a break (Score 1)

I respect very much what you have to say -- very logical and, yes, very principled. Thanks! HOWEVER: 1) I disagree with your "Reid's ploy" description of the Dodd Amendment -- 60 votes were necessary to block a (certain) Bush veto on FISA; 2) I think the Dems writ large have slept through the 2006 elections and its aftermath -- to their well-deserved discredit; 3) I am very much keeping in mind the Constitution, which has been grossly eroded in the name of "executive privilege" and the "unitary executive" theory -- there is much work to be done here, but if, as you state, there was "no voter constituency pushing for immunity," then I'm not convinced FISA was a strong enough reed to warrant an Obama attack; and, 4) I'm not willing to await the next coming of the left's Goldwater (who was, or should have been, RFK, in my book) -- make no mistake, McCain's winning would be a flat-out disaster for this country, and I'm too old now to hope for other mirages out there someplace!