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facing federal charges of extortion. Rezko raised money to help elect Obama to the Illinois state senate in 1996. Despite his shady dealings with Rezko, Obama will be the next president.

Obama will win the presidency, despite the fact that in the Illinois state senate, he voted present more than 100 times, instead of yes or no on an issue. This was party of a political strategy he used to avoid votes that could be held against him. Barack served in the Illinois state senate for eight years.

In his two years in the U.S. Senate, according to the Washington Post Senate vote tracking database, Barack Obama has missed 41% of his votes and when he did bother to show up he voted with his party 96% of the time. He has a terrible attendance record and he hardly has the track record of a uniter.

He will be the least experienced president we have ever had, and he will win because of one word; change. 2008 is a year for change, and with his "black" heritage and message of change and unity, he is in the right place at the right time, with the media giving him a free ride. The media has not challenged his image, they have accepted him for who he says he is. That type of press coverage is priceless. Obama's image has been amplified and sold to the American people by David Axelrod, founder of one of America's premiere marketing firms, Axelrod, Kupper, Plouffe and Del Cecato. Axelrod is to Obama what Karl Rove was to George W. Bush; the architect of his campaign.

He's going to have to adapt quickly to being president; there isn't a "present" voting option when it comes to political issues like the Global War on Terror, energy independence and foreign relations. When he's president he's going to have to be there 100% of the time, unlike his job in the Senate. If any normal person missed work that much, we'd be fired. Instead, he'll be made president. Hopefully, for America's sake, Obama is more successful at running the White House than he was at community organizing, he will make better cabinet choices than the likes of Tony Rezko and he will be a strong accountable leader as the voice of our nation instead of just one of many guiltless voters on the floor of the legislature.

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