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was founded on the freedom of religion, belief or not, pursuit or not - our country's dreams, pursuits and endeavors cannot be based on one religion or another. Put another way, in Colin Powell's endorsement of Senator Obama, he cogently expressed an important point - in the course of this campaign, Senator McCain was given some credit for refuting claims that Mr. Obama was an "Arab" or a "Muslim" - the question posed by Mr. Powell was why does it matter? What if he was an Arab-American or a follower of the Muslim faith? None of this can exclude him from office nor should it be relevant any more than any other topic of discussion in passing. And, these considerations, none of which pertain to Senator Obama, an American of Christian faith, are far less relevant than Senator McCain being chastised by a Senate ethics panel for his support of Charles Keating in the Lincoln Financial fraud schemes and of Governor Palin's abuse of state funds for her personal benefit in Alaska.

The campaign and its final days have shown the worst of what little the Republican party offers the American people - in the past few months, Senator McCain and his incredibly unqualified and socially unacceptable running crony, Ms. Palin, have resorted to the lowest forms of personal attacks on Senator Obama, bringing up issues that are of no relevance to this campaign other that to win for the sake of winning with no honor or benefit to the American people. Sarah Palin's selection as the Vice Presidential candidate was and is an absolute affront to the intellect and beliefs of Americans, apparently in an attempt to capture the female vote that would have been cast with Senator Clinton and to capture the hearts and minds of "Joe Six-Packs" and "Joe the Plumbers" around the country. During this same time, Senator Obama has continued the masterful, focused course of his campaign and his plans for getting this country and its economy back to working order and to restore the good name of the United States of American worldwide.

The good news is that this regime can and will change in four days, but as any good Democrat will tell you - "power will not cede control easily or willingly" - a paraphrase of Senator Obama's recent remarks. The Republicans will do what they can, in any way they can, but as far as the elections are concerned, "you can't steal a landslide" - vote, campaign, contribute, do what you can in these last few days before the course of these United States of America is restored to its just and rightful purpose for its citizens and the citizens of this world.

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