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Being a born and bred Chicagoan, I seldom get scared. After all, we are the ones whose city has been synonymous with the mob for years, we are the ones who have lived through rugged winters, the Daley Dynasty, and we are the ones from the city where the dead once voted and often.

But now I am getting scared. It isn't the kind of fear you get from walking down the street at night, but the kind you get when you see a funnel cloud inching ahead in the distance.

It's the kind of fear over what will happen should Barack Obama become president. It's not because of his race because I am not a racist. It's because of his politics and the fact that he leans so far to the left that I am waiting for him to fall into the Pacific Ocean one fine day.

I am afraid of his affiliations and the paltry excuses he uses to cover them up. First there was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright debacle. It is almost impossible to believe that one person can associate with one another for twenty years and have no idea of his politics. Yet Obama said he knew nothing about it. What did they talk about all those years, carburetors and the weather?

As a Jewish person and the daughter, granddaughter and niece of Holocaust survivors, I am afraid of his politics as well. Earlier this year, he said that "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," which is hard to believe coming from a group that settles their grievances with others by blowing up and murdering civilians and children. I am afraid that even they want him to become president.

I am also afraid for the economy. Some may say that the housing market and all those forfeited loans, which nearly caused the world economy to collapse was because of the Republicans. What most people don't realize is that it was President Clinton who pressured the banks to give loans to those who could barely scrape together the month-to-month rent on an apartment let alone a mortgage.

Barack Obama's campaign slogan is "Change we need." With a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President with questionable affiliations and politics including a bill he sponsored making it illegal for a person to defend himself in his own home with a gun that is not registered, the concern is that they may be the wrong changes.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi loudly claims that the Democrats should get no blame for the Wall Street financial mess. That's laughable. Democratic president Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and Congressional Democrats just as eagerly as the GOP cut sweetheart deals with financial industry lobbyists to gut lending and stock trading regulations, winked and nodded at the banks and brokerage houses as they engaged in an orgy of dubious stock swapping, buys, and trading, conned millions of homeowners into taking out catastrophic sub prime loans, and watered down the oversight powers of government regulatory agencies.

In 2005, Senate Democrats killed a bill to give regulators the power to require companies to shed their investments in risky assets. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Banking Committee Chair Christopher Dodd and other Congressional Democrats have been on the Wall Street dole to the tune of millions.

Make no mistake, when the phony Bush bailout swindle passes, Pelosi, Dodd and other Congressional Democrats will be its biggest cheerleaders.