Bob Ostertag: Obama Web Site Protest Grows

Online protest has continued to grow against Senator Obama's decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration's program of wiretapping without warrants. As I wrote about yesterday, the protest is taking place on the Obama campaign's social networking site, MyBarackObama.com. The site allows Obama supporters to create online IDs for themselves, and blog and network in a manner similar to Facebook and MySpace. The largest group on the site now is called "Senator Obama -- Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right." When I wrote yesterday, it had 12,261 members. As I write this it is approaching 18,000. Many members of the group are actively recruiting new members, with the objective of making the group as large as possible by the time of the... [read full story]