Last night I, like quite a few others, I would imagine, followed links from Glenn Greenwald and other liberal bloggers and sent Christopher Dodd a letter of support for his principled stand on retroactive immunity for the telecoms and the constitution in general. He had not been my candidate of choice, but I had heard some things I liked in recent weeks.
I received a follow up email shortly thereafter with the lead sentence:
"Are you willing to go to the mat to restore the Constitution?"
Of course, 'going to the mat' meant contributing to Dodd's campaign. I did, and I feel fine about it. Feel free to do the same.
No doubt, given the high profile bloggers alerting their audiences to Dodd's stand, his campaign got a good injection of cash and hence 'vital spirits'. And good for him.
But it is weird isn't it? A second tier Democratic presidential candidate getting traction because he is willing to go 'to the mat' to restore the constitution.
Do you remember some years back when a judge in California ruled that the 'pledge to allegiance' is unconstitutional because of the phrase 'under God'? I do.
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