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(Sung to the tune of "La Bamba" by Richie Valens)

Ai yi yi yi yi Obama
Ai yi yi yi yi Obama

It's no necessario to put him in office-ito
in office-ito

Ai yi yi yi yi Obama
Ai yi yi yi yi Obama

He has done things to toy with our coffer--itos
Coffer-itos

Ay yi yi yi yi Obama
Ay yi yi yi yi Obama
Yo no tengo dineros, yo no tengo dineros
Por capitol, por capitol

Ai yi yi yi yi Obama
Ai yi yi yi yi Obama
El ACORN-ito
ACORN-ito

Ai yi yi yi yi Obama
Ai yi yi yi yi Obama
When ACORN made the banc-itos
Give loans to the pauvricitos.
Who went belly-up-ito
Belly-up-ito

Ay yi mortgage
Ay yi mortgage
Ay yi mortgage
Out the window-ito, window-ito

Ai yi Obama
Ai yi Obama

Problemas for the domicilios
Domilicios

Ay yi yi yi Obama
Ay yi yi yi Obama
That man in Iran is no amigo
No amigo

Ay yi, Obama
Ay yi ,Obama
Ay yi, Obama, Obama

(Copyright, Gail Saunders, one day in 2008)

Google: Barrack Obama, ACORN, Home loans for the poor
or forget that and go to: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_voter_fraud/2008/09/22/133091.html

Being a born and bred Chicagoan, I seldom get scared. After all, we are the ones whose city has been synonymous with the mob for years, we are the ones who have lived through rugged winters, the Daley Dynasty, and we are the ones from the city where the dead once voted and often.

But now I am getting scared. It isn't the kind of fear you get from walking down the street at night, but the kind you get when you see a funnel cloud inching ahead in the distance.

It's the kind of fear over what will happen should Barack Obama become president. It's not because of his race because I am not a racist. It's because of his politics and the fact that he leans so far to the left that I am waiting for him to fall into the Pacific Ocean one fine day.

I am afraid of his affiliations and the paltry excuses he uses to cover them up. First there was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright debacle. It is almost impossible to believe that one person can associate with one another for twenty years and have no idea of his politics. Yet Obama said he knew nothing about it. What did they talk about all those years, carburetors and the weather?

As a Jewish person and the daughter, granddaughter and niece of Holocaust survivors, I am afraid of his politics as well. Earlier this year, he said that "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," which is hard to believe coming from a group that settles their grievances with others by blowing up and murdering civilians and children. I am afraid that even they want him to become president.

I am also afraid for the economy. Some may say that the housing market and all those forfeited loans, which nearly caused the world economy to collapse was because of the Republicans. What most people don't realize is that it was President Clinton who pressured the banks to give loans to those who could barely scrape together the month-to-month rent on an apartment let alone a mortgage.

Barack Obama's campaign slogan is "Change we need." With a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President with questionable affiliations and politics including a bill he sponsored making it illegal for a person to defend himself in his own home with a gun that is not registered, the concern is that they may be the wrong changes.

You could feel the history of it all.

Seeing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama deliver a rousing yet measured acceptance speech to a packed arena, how could you not feel the moment?

Even if you're a Republican, Libertarian, Clintonian or other, seeing an African-American accept a major-party nomination for president and, in the long process leading up to this moment, change the political landscape of America, is nothing short of momentous.

During the speech, I heard the theme of responsibility tied to government, business and the individual. He had the line about Republican's telling people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, along with the paradox of not having said boots or the straps that go with them.

But Obama made it clear that America is the place where fairness can and should reign and where dreams can be realized.

He mentioned helping displaced workers some two decades ago, but he also recalled pushing welfare reform while in the Illinois statehouse.

Obama didn't come out against abortion, but he did talk about how to discourage the practice.

He pledged to support the Second Amendment as far as gun rights go, referring specifically and positively to hunters in Ohio, but deliberately excluded assault rifles from what he'd consider OK.

As far as an energy policy goes, he veered into "land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth" territory by pledging to make the country to become foreign-oil-free in a scant 10 years.

He wouldn't support gay marriage but instead called for equal rights and protection for all.

On many of these issues, he's counting on his base to look the other way.

Let's face it, Obama is middle of the road.

He didn't want to be in Iraq, wants to get out, but is hell-bent on the fight in Afghanistan.

He wants to pay teachers more (I don't know quite how the federal government could make that happen) and said that some kind of federal standards would go along with any federal money. I waited for him to mock "No Child Left Behind" by name, but he didn't take that bait. Maybe he likes it.

He talked about the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. and the importance of the March on Washington some 45 years ago.

But Obama was careful to say that all Americans — the ones who aren't rich, anyway — are hurting.

He talked about opportunity not for any specific racial group or gender, but in a different way. OK, he did mention women, veterans, college students, teachers, auto workers, steelworkers, parents, grandparents ...

The whole "leaving behind the politics of the past," and "politics of hope"? It could be a lot of smoke.

I don't know if presumptive Republican nominee John McCain really thinks you need to drag in $5 million a year to be considered rich, or if he just has a very dry sense of humor, but did that really need to be in Obama's speech?

It sounds pretty "politics of the past"-ish. Effective but not the high road.

Obama's challenge leading up to November is to get specific. What does he want to do? Where will the money come from? Can he get anything out of Congress?

Speechmaking ability matters. Organizational discipline matters. Obama and his campaign have those two bases covered.

But can Barack Obama close the deal? A whole lot depends on how detailed he's willing or able to get over the next couple of months.

As far as who will prevail in November, Obama or McCain, much depends on what happens in this country and around the world.

Falling gas prices won't help Obama. Nor will unrest around the world that the current administration deals with effectively.

If Iraq makes any progress whatsoever, it favors the pro-surge McCain.

If the mortgage crises and the overall economy worsens, that would help Obama. And does anybody see the economy getting any better any time soon? That's a good enough reason to campaign on McCain's $5 million blunder.

And with the Republicans setting up shop in Minnesota next week for their convention, John McCain and the GOP have a very tough act to follow.

The rule of thumb in picking vice presidents is that they must do three things. They must balance the ticket, make up a real or perceived deficit that the presidential contender has, and hopefully help him win the presidency, or at the very least don't help him lose it. This rule of vice presidential thumb applies more than ever to presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain.
If Obama or McCain had been able to widen the poll gap comfortably over each other, the vice presidency would still be important, but not as crucial. That hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So this election the VP will do something that seldom happens, he will help seal or sink the deal for Obama or McCain.