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By Jeff Hartzer - Nov 4th, 2008 at 5:43 pm EST

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Today's the day-:-Tonight's the night.
¡OBAMANOS!

Barometric pressure is falling and the winds of change are rising in Albuquerque today...Truly a sense of strangeness in the air...A one time resident of 'burque, Jim Morrison penned these lines which are alive today in the high desert:

Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down...

Strange eyes fill strange rooms/Voices will signal their tired end
The hostess is grinning/Her guests sleep from sinning
Hear me talk of sin/And you know this is it

Strange days have found us/And through their strange hours
We linger alone/Bodies confused
Memories misused/As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone

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GOBAMA!

By Elsa Kendall - Oct 11th, 2008 at 2:32 am EDT

I've put together a site to show some of the photos I made during the Espanola, New Mexico rally in September, and to have links for voting, and articles, and other inspiring things to help our candidate. You can find it here and if you find anything to be inaccurate please let me know; or if you have any constructive comments at all, they are welcome.

It came out of this thought: Seeing red? See BLUE instead!

I'm also putting an audio/visual together for the Watch|Listen section. It will be done next week, so please check back.

The Blue Point of View can be found here: http://thebluepointofview.com

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Obamanos!

By Roseville City School Board Member - Aug 25th, 2008 at 9:13 pm EDT

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OBAMANOS! A Man With the Courage of Robert Kennedy

Steven-Ybarra.jpg By Steven J. Ybarra, JD

Finally, after eight years there is a budget and a plan for the Latino voter! It must really gall a bunch of folks within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) (who have bought off on the Dean theory of kumbaya and let us do a fifty state plan) to see that Obama gets it. You have to win Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.

The twenty million dollars is going to be a real squeaker. Lets face it 20 million is not really enough. I knew that if I said 40 million the east coasters would go crazy or think I was. Now there is barely enough time to get the real job done - this all needed to get started four years ago. But you go to war with the army you have, right?

So what is the question of the day? It seems that we Latinos need to step up to the plate and get ready to raise money for this earmarked effort. Not since Bobby Kennedy have we seen a real commitment from a presidential candidate to our voters and issues. Obama, in fact, looks like one guy who wants to go the distance.

I have seen courageous men and women in my lifetime. They are people who despite being afraid continue to do the job. There are certainly three people in this election year who by those standards are courageous.

One without a doubt is McCain. [Not for what he is doing in this race because he has surrendered his courage to the Republifacists who must now maintain their so-called honor. Even Sun Tzu in the art of War a thousand years ago knew that this was a weakness. No man of honor has to really maintain his honor, either he has it, or he doesn't.] The second person in the race with real courage is Michelle Obama.

Finally the person with all the courage is Obama, who is under constant attack now that he is the nominee.

Senator Obama has challenged us as Americans to believe that we can do what America has the capability of doing. Obama has challenged us as Americans to get back hope. Obama has challenged us as Americans to look into the better nature of ourselves and see the possibility and for all these things, he is being attacked. He looks at all of us and says let us get going or in Spanish vámonos.

He is being attacked for challenging America the way it was challenged in the Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II. Is this any reason for him to be attacked? I listen to the right wing nuts say that he is pictured as the messiah. I just want a president who cares about the people in this country and this hemisphere.

I am going out to help raise the money that Obama says he wants to commit to our vote. I know he has the money already, I just want to prove the point that loyalty is a two way street. The answer to each of the questions of the day is and has always been when someone stands with you - stand with them. We may lose this election but it will not be for lack of my trying.

My old friend Cesar Chavez used to say Sí se puede! He would go through the whole conjugation of the verb until he got to the statement no tengo poder. This means I have no power. When we as a nation admit we cannot do something, it means we are powerless as a people. I know, as did Cesar, that admitting that one is powerless means that others will control their existence.

No one controls my existence. I am responsible for my country and myself. I know we can as a nation do better, be better, and have hope again about our future for our children yet unborn.

Until today, I signed off all my DNC correspondence with the term Siempre Adelante, which means always forward. From today until my term in office ends, I will sign it off - OBAMANOS!

p.s. If you would like to contribute to the effort to get Mexican American and other Latino voters to vote in this election for Obama go to www.Obamanos.us for information on how to do that and for the links to many site already up and running.

Thanks Barak soy en su lado!

©Steven Ybarra Jis a retired civil rights attorney who operates a consultant company in California. He is a member of the Democratic National Committee and a long time political activist. Contact Steven at: sjybarra@aol.com. This article is copyright by Steven J. Ybarra JD, originally published in www.Hispanicvista.com and Obsnews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media if this entire credit paragraph is attached.

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