Forget Sex! Forget Race! What Issue Stance Does Your Candidate Have...

[allinktup]

Forget Sex! Forget Race! What Issue Stance Does Your Candidate Have that makes you want to vote for them.

Voting for someone because it would be the first African American or first woman should not be your primary decision for picking a candidate.

So my fellow DUers... why are voting the way you are?

PLEASE refrain from slamming other candidates.

[Avalux]

1. Obama will restore habeas corpus, close Guantanamo.

His health care plan which focuses on children; his driver's license idea for illegal immigrants; his stance on Iraq from the beginning.

Those are just a few.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. My candidate neutralizes pukes on national security. Her opponent can't.

[allinktup]

5. This is not an attack thread

stick to your own candidate

[BelgianMadCow]

3. Forget sex?!

sorry, no can do

[allinktup]

7. lol... just for political purposes

[Drum]

4. Check here:

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

:patriot:

[allinktup]

8. thanks! great link!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. The Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution.

[EFerrari]

9. No. Don't forget "race" and don't forget sexism. Deal with it.

Until you deal with discrimination in America, you aren't dealing with America, you're doing something else.

We have an opportunity to do better, today.

Deal with it.

[allinktup]

11. You just don't get it

And you offer nothing to the conversation. Sex & Race are not issues to choose your candidate over.

How about some real issues? Noone is suggesting that there isn't sexism or racists... That's not the point here.

[EFerrari]

14. If you think discrimination isn't an issue, you need to do some rethinking.

Or, you need to go lobby for "American Idol".

Real issues? Wow.

[sfam]

10. I want someone who brings us together, otherwise we have stalemate forever

This truly is more important to me than any issue. My belief is that if we don't get actual dialogue, then any policy position is Dead-on-Arrival when it hits congress. I really don't see the differences in the democratic positions to separate them out all that much, but unless they can convince others, I'm not sure it makes a difference. Incidentally, Hillary certainly has shown the ability to work with others on the right in the Senate, although this hasn't come out much in the campaign.

BTW, I am more of a left-leaning independent than a straight Democrat. I vote for John Warner in the Senate, for instance. I would FAR prefer having lots of moderates on both sides than polarization at the ends. I feel we as a country would make far better decisions if both parties formed a working consensus. And by that I mean we wouldn't end up with these truly bizarre positions we have now like supporting torture, the removal of Habeas Corpus and all the rest.

[rateyes]

12. I tried forgetting sex once...

I'm glad to say it didn't work. :evilgrin:

[sandnsea]

13. Health Care as an IL Constitutional Right

Obama had the courage to introduce it.

Nobody has a record like Barack Obama's.

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