I spotted Charles "Charley" Gonzales, (D-Sleepyville) at "Charley's" restaurant (no relation) on Broadway tonight with the Mr's. Steve Spruster and and Steve Brown from KSAT were there too watching the Spurs game. I didn't bother them.

But I walked up to Charley, who was casually dressed but sharp. Stag. I reminded him I was a friend of a friend, and like any good politician, he remembered me. I asked him to make a prediction on the election and that I would keep it strictly confidential. He said it was to close to call.

I'm not so sure.

Some have remarked that O'bama might have been victim to the "Bradly Effect" in New Hampshire by voters lying to exit pollsters about voting for a black man. They say they did, but they really didn't. If such a thing exists, this seems a polite form of racism. And after all, it's impolite to ask a guy who he voted for.

Maybe the biggest hurdle will be bad old fashioned, George Wallace-style racism? We saw its ugly cousin in the form of the frothy boogaboo Cunningham, braying about "Bar-ock Hoo-sane O-baama!" over and over on CNN yesterday. What Barry wasn't counting on, maybe, was this unfortunate situation today, that nobody seems to report on, involving a phenomena I've observed: Mexicans don't vote for no zambo:

"Kris Alingod - AHN News Writer

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) distanced herself from another overexuberant supporter on Thursday, this time a Hispanic civil rights leader in Texas who said in an interview that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "simply has the problem that he happens to be black."

The controversial statement was made by Adelfa Callejo, an 84-year old Clinton backer from Dallas, when asked during an interview with CBS 11 News to comment about Obama's efforts to reach out to Hispanics.

"When Blacks had the numbers, they didn't do anything to support us. They always used our numbers to fulfill their goals and objectives, but they never really supported us, and there's a lot of hard feelings about that. I don't think we're going to get over it anytime soon," Callejo had said."

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Although many men (and women) of color fled to Mexico from the U.S., and a long time previously the Spanish brought some black men as slaves, they all became free by the time Mexico became a republic. Thus, encouraging more flight from the south. Even though these people lived free, they were to become victims of social prejudice that was not based on race, but rather cast. The problem is Mexico's insane caste system that is the madness dripping from the unhealed wounds wrought from Spanish murder of the Children of the Sun, and schitzophrenia when they then became their enemies by co-mingling their bloodlines.

To the extent that time has washed these foolish institutions away into the shadows is Mr. Obama's and America's journey to find.