FISA

I’m at the Personal Democracy Forum conference today and tomorrow. I’ll be live blogging from some sessions later in the day. In the meantime, I want to remind you to please spread the word about our new user-blogs, and post up a few links that you might have missed this weekend:

• George Carlin, champion of free speech, is dead.. That sucks.
• The always interesting Colin Delaney (who I’m sure is here in the room somewhere) injects a little realism into the discussion in these 7 Lessons from the Obama Campaign.
• Screw the Millennials. Charlie Cook thinks this election is all about white, male, Baby Boomers. (I of course disagree).
• Most voters believe McCain is too old to be President, but younger voters are more accepting of his age than older voters.
• GOP youth are trying to put together their own convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul this summer.
• Obama made the news twice this week. First for withdrawing from the campaign finance system. Act Blue weighs-in on that decision (in favor of Obama’s decision). Second, Obama came out in support of the FISA “compromise.” Greg Sargent and Glenn Greenwald weigh-in on why this was extremely disappointing.

I don't write a lot about topical issues. Mostly this blog covers tactical and structural topics, or follows elections. But this was was pretty funny, and very cleverly done, so I thought I'd post it.

If you are really looking to dig in to FISA, you could do worse than reading Matt Browner Hamlin's blog, Hold Fast. Matt was the blogger for the Dodd campaign, and has been a real leader in the FISA fight. His blog is probably one of the best places on the net to track what is happening with FISA legislation.

Oh, and did I mention that at 25 Matt is a Millennial?