and standing up against the political machinery there -- a good guy, loving the Constitution and the American Way. But Obama was involved with ACORN, a Rathke group -- and Wade Rathke was (surprise!) a member of the SDS. As was Bill A. and "Mrs. Bill." And I listened to clips on the internet to Rev. Wright "god ***n America." Now I know that Obama claimed that he didn't know Bill A. well (which was most certainly -- based on reportage -- not the case.) But his work for ACORN? That's the experience on which some Americans voted for him. (We don't know how many of those votes were legitimate, since ACORN has been busy for quite some time now. We know that a certain amount of voter fraud has stemmed from that source.) But what REALLY made me wonder was ow could a junior senator, with no real experience in legislation, raise more money than Hillary or even -- in the past -- W. and Al G. put together, how could this junior senator get SO MUCH FINANCIAL SUPPORT? From where did that money come? And then there's the hidden records -- we don't really know his school record; we don't even know for sure that he's a natural-born citizen, do we? McCain had an entire group of men study pages and pages of documents before he was considered Constitutionally-speaking a natural-born citizen. Obama's mother was a minor -- whether he was born in Hawaii or not. Was his