In Chicago in 1984, I was involved with running then and there the Reagan-Bush '84 Ethnic Voters Division; I myself scored so many "silver" and "gold" certificates for goals/voters secured we laughed that I was the wallpaper man; I worked with Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, African-Americans, Caucasians of every stripe, and every type of Hispanic there is...in those days, we came together on issues important across-the-board and didn't have political parties that basically presented "it's down to us or them" whoever the "us" or "them" might be in any way(s) or by any "-ism"s...that year, even in predominantly Democrat Illinois, Reagan won by a landslide and we took six contiguous wards of the City of Chicago as REPUBLICAN.

Times appear to have changed drastically. As a "Teddy Roosevelt" Republican and "William Frank Buckley, Jr" Conservative, I am appalled the McCain campaign has allowed itself to be portrayed in media and otherwise as some sort of "whites-only" club; at the same time, Obama's campaign has focused almost exclusively on Latinos as the only "non-intellectual-rhetoric-based" ethnic group they see in America, as if to say it's them versus everyone else.

Our officials in both parties, and at all State/Local/Federal levels, seem to imply it's Latinos to be given government-owned housing and close social rights/liberties monitoring versus everybody else "clinging" to "old ways of equity", and that if Obama wins thusly so do Latinos who "deeply desire to expand their ways in the USA and by Christian compassion we must urge them to step up to houses they did not build, fields they did not plow", on further ruse "multi-racial old Christians and Jews provoke Muslims abroad with such views of equity/freedom/trade, and are hypocritical to boot for not obeying REAL Bible citations only government faith-funded preachers can see and favor Latinos".

The problem is, that's not what the manifest majority of religious, Caucasians, Hindus, Latinos, and African-Americans, and others see from campaign ads and calls...which again just imply it's whites versus everyone else in a last-man-standing, winner take all battle for what the "bailout" leaves for the everyday people...want to do better, fight between yourselves and please don't notice what government marches on with despite it all. For the McCain camp to so easily play to that, and for PFAWs and such to say it's thus "okay" for ACORN and others to let ANY Latino vote in a "Christian civil war" of some kind trumping all law, is a great dis-service to ALL people of ALL origins, considering what we're to "win" as a result.

For the record, most Latinos aren't even eating up such palaver, nor are many others...we hear Obama say "CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!", we hear McCain as saying "aw heck, let 'em have it, I'll help in the Senate and have run to block Bushies from running to HELP change", and when Obama or McCain is President, despite what media and officials might prefer to insist we "really" mean we're going to have the same common interests we did before and approve/disapprove of legislation as we did before...most of us regardless of religion could at least agree with Christ in John 15:17, where He tells God not to remove from this world those who would not listen to or be like Him, just to protect them from the evil one.