Anne, I despise anti-choice, anti-environment, pro-animal cruelty (the worst record in Congress), cockeyed economist Ron Paul. And you are talking about what the Democratic candidates say, and I am talking about their personal histories--what they have said and done before they were big-time candidates (and in Obama's case--even after becoming a candidate). Since you brought up LGBT issues as an example, I don't know about Biden, but Obama has shown on more than one occasion how he really feels about the LGBT community; he is a typical kind of modern "liberal" who has a number of prejudices but convinces people he does not have them.
Many LGBT citizens will support Obama because he is the better choice for them, yes, but that doesn't detract from his history. I'm not saying Obama would not help people in oppressed positions; I'm merely saying his commitment to many of them is not real. We have seen this before: Jimmy Carter, the so-called champion of women's rights, tossed women into the trash pile as soon as one of his advisers told him to. Bill Clinton, supposedly a supporter of LGBT rights, gave us DOMA and Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The commitment was not there.
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