I'm an unabashed moderate for Obama

[ripmolly]

First thread. Wooo hoooo!

[WI_DEM]

1. Welcome to DU!!

[bigwillq]

2. Hello

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. welcome to du.

[ripmolly]

4. Thanks

Thank you everyone.

I have friends on the right who say I'm not a moderate if I support Obama. I have friends on the left who say the same thing.

I'm sick of everyone telling me what I am. I know I am a moderate and I know I loves me some Barack!

[WI_DEM]

5. well I'm a liberal and I also tend to support Barack

[ripmolly]

10. Good!

Good for you. He is a true leader and can unite this country.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. what makes you moderate?

[ripmolly]

7. I am not as far left as some

I'm "moderate" because I'm not as far left as some. I am not a fan of socialism. I don't think special interest groups of either side should have as much power as they do. I like some Republicans. I think tax policy should be more about government revenue instead of class warfare.


Ok, flame on.

[bigwillq]

8. Where do you stand on social issues?

Abortion....gay rights....etc..

[ripmolly]

13. Social Issues

Abortion is settled law and should stay that way.

Gay marriage is something we should have done 50 years ago.

[bigwillq]

14. DUH!

Stupid question.
I think you want Obama.

[ripmolly]

16. Duh?

Just another reason to say it.


OBAMA!!!!!!!

[bigwillq]

19. I had asked before edit

you was your choice for the DEM nominee for Prez but obviously it is Obama, right?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. you say flame on as though someones doing that.

i just wanted to know what you meant by moderate.

[ripmolly]

15. Sorrry

Sorry, I've just been warned a little about here.

I am not so good at this but I am learning. I've kept my mouth shut for a long time, but now that my daughter is in school it's time to speak out a bit.

Thank you for making sure my first thread doesn't die.

[Blue-Jay]

11. No flaming.

Welcome to DU, you maverick moderate!

Tell us which republicans you like, if you don't mind.

[ripmolly]

17. Crist has been a pleasant surprise so far

But that's because the country is tilting left and he's a political whore (and possibly other type also).

I like Rudy. Pro-choice and pro-gay. He's too hamhanded to run the country. My cousin in New York loves him, and I tell her she should get him to be mayor again if she likes him that much. I don't think running a city is the same as running the nation.

[Blue-Jay]

24. ummmm. OK.

Rudy is an authoritarian, however. (Look it up yourself; I'm not gonna provide you with links) I have a real problem with candidates who think that an administrative position = blank check to do whatever they "feel" is right.

Do some research and get back to us, OK?

[LostinVA]

21. Who do you consider "special interest groups?

[ripmolly]

23. anyone that hires lobbyists

Special Interest Groups to me are anyone that hires lobbyists.

[hfojvt]

25. Progressive taxes and undoing the Bush tax cuts

are not about class warfare. Republicans are the real practitioners of class warfare as they wage war on the working class.

[ripmolly]

26. I agree about the republican

But I think some washington insiders in the DNC are just as bad. I also think Social Security is the most regressive tax ever invented.

[Chan790]

12. Welcome to DU

and welcome to The Lounge.

[ripmolly]

18. oops!

Another place I post doesn't allow politics in the lounge.










(embarrassed, but thanks for the reminder)

[Chan790]

20. I just meant welcome to the lounge.

We're low-key. GD tends to be brutal. Any idea or POV you have, somebody in GD will find stupid and tell you so...usually rudely.

[ripmolly]

22. thanks

thanks for the heads up