Comments on: Lessig, Obama, and Grassroots Political Strategy http://techliberation.com/2008/06/22/lessig-obama-and-grassroots-political-strategy/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alex Steed http://techliberation.com/2008/06/22/lessig-obama-and-grassroots-political-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-49513 Alex Steed Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:21:26 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10965#comment-49513 I don't get, though, that Lessig is giving a free pass, or whatever it is that people are saying he's doing on FISA. What is the response to his final statement about acknowledgment of some limits of power in the context of compromise? <br><br>"Please, fellow liberals, or leftists, or progressives, get off your high horse(s). More on this with the next post but: it is not "compromising" to recognize that we are part of a democracy. We on the left may be right. We may be the position to which the country eventually gets. But we have not yet earned the status of a majority. And to start this chant of "principled rejection" of Obama because he is not as pure as we is, in a word, idiotic (read: Naderesque)." I don’t get, though, that Lessig is giving a free pass, or whatever it is that people are saying he’s doing on FISA. What is the response to his final statement about acknowledgment of some limits of power in the context of compromise?

“Please, fellow liberals, or leftists, or progressives, get off your high horse(s). More on this with the next post but: it is not “compromising” to recognize that we are part of a democracy. We on the left may be right. We may be the position to which the country eventually gets. But we have not yet earned the status of a majority. And to start this chant of “principled rejection” of Obama because he is not as pure as we is, in a word, idiotic (read: Naderesque).”

]]> By: Alex Steed http://techliberation.com/2008/06/22/lessig-obama-and-grassroots-political-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-42793 Alex Steed Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:21:26 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10965#comment-42793 I don't get, though, that Lessig is giving a free pass, or whatever it is that people are saying he's doing on FISA. What is the response to his final statement about acknowledgment of some limits of power in the context of compromise? "Please, fellow liberals, or leftists, or progressives, get off your high horse(s). More on this with the next post but: it is not "compromising" to recognize that we are part of a democracy. We on the left may be right. We may be the position to which the country eventually gets. But we have not yet earned the status of a majority. And to start this chant of "principled rejection" of Obama because he is not as pure as we is, in a word, idiotic (read: Naderesque)." I don’t get, though, that Lessig is giving a free pass, or whatever it is that people are saying he’s doing on FISA. What is the response to his final statement about acknowledgment of some limits of power in the context of compromise?

“Please, fellow liberals, or leftists, or progressives, get off your high horse(s). More on this with the next post but: it is not “compromising” to recognize that we are part of a democracy. We on the left may be right. We may be the position to which the country eventually gets. But we have not yet earned the status of a majority. And to start this chant of “principled rejection” of Obama because he is not as pure as we is, in a word, idiotic (read: Naderesque).”

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