Reply #5: not claiming to be the expert on LGBT, [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

and no offense intended, but on this and probably other issues we'll have to get used to Obama using the big tent approach, no matter how he personally stands on issues. I mean, he doesn't seem to want to do the stereotypical liberal politics thing and only throw red meat to the left.

It will take a little getting used to on the part of some of us older Dems (well I'm older, anyway!), but it just may be the way to win a fraud-proof majority--by reaching out to all sides. To lot of Lefties this will look like selling out, but as I understand it, Obama is simply trying to gather people together and not exclude people. It means letting everyone on board who wants the same things for America. It means not separating people into acceptable or unacceptable catagories while campaigning. I don't know if I'm making sense--it's late, I'm tired and I haven't tried to articulate this before. I just know that Obama is trying something new.

No doubt a lot of us will be taken out of our comfort zones on this or that issue. Some of them will be picked up and exaggerated and distorted by the media, making them seem worse, too. But the kids seem to get him. They seem to be seeing the big picture.

added: My number one would have been Kerry, and after him Biden,too. But I'm settled that Obama would be a great president--and Kerry's endorsement has made it final for me!