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I know, Abba sang that a long time ago, but is it right?

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich mans world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich mans world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
Its a rich mans world

Now we have Obama with the money – and a lot of it. So is he playing in a rich man’s world or will he change that world, especially in the US?

Leslie Sanchez, a CNN contributor and a real Republican, looks at how Obama could squander all the money available to him – and, from what I read, she is looking towards a comeback from the Turtle and his Flip-Flop express.

I respect Leslie – I have watched her on CNN quite a bit and she does speak from the party line, which she should – but I am not convinced that she is really behind McCain as much as she says.

Despite all this, however, the cart still may be before the horse. Money isn’t everything. If it were, Mitt Romney would be the Republican candidate, not John McCain. Obama needs to remember he outspent Hillary Clinton two-to-one in Texas and Ohio and three-to-one in Pennsylvania and still lost in those states — badly.

I have to disagree, Mitt Romney isn’t the candidate because his religious affiliations hurt him badly, very badly indeed – he is a Republican who wasn’t evangelical. That said, neither is Turtle John, but by the time it came down to Huckabee and McCain, it was all but over.

The Republicans had a ‘bad lot’ this time around, but John McCain was the best of them, which says a lot about those who ran. I do believe that if Mitt Romney was the candidate the Republicans would have more chance of winning – but they don’t. The have a candidate that has yet to debate with Obama and that is when I really do feel the Republican candidate will loose the White House.

With his money, Obama can attack on many fronts – and one front that Democrats haven’t even thought about for the last few elections is the conservative vote – this is an area that Obama can fight toe-to-toe with McCain.

One thing that keeps coming up is the lack of experience that Obama has, but you have to look at the time McCain has in Congress and that time can work against him. Experience isn’t everything – but that war chest that Obama has could be.

Obama isn’t a brand, yet – but once that brand is out and being spoke about in the barbers shops in the rural areas of the US, you may find many more people buy a new brand.