YALLA VOTE ‘08 Our Voice. Our Future.

There’s an amazing sense of all being right in the world when a writer like Juan Cole pens a piece for Salon like his latest, “John McCain’s Arab-American Problem“.

If Arab Americans mature in the political process and begin to show some clout–through lobbying, campaign donations and PAC donations (yes, there is an Arab American Leadership PAC out there), as well as good, old-fashioned VOTING–we can change American foreign and domestic policy for the better.

As Mr. Cole puts it so succinctly:

But more important, Arab-Americans across the country are looking for changes in domestic and international policy that McCain seems unwilling to pledge — and they are concentrated in swing states that he will need to win this fall. Does John McCain have a problem with Arab-American voters?

Recent polls show a tight race between either Democrat and McCain in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio, all states where Arab-Americans account for an appreciable percentage of the vote. Such polls have limited utility with November so many months away, but that it will be a close election in those key states seems clear. In a tight election, the votes of a well-placed minority — Arab-American votes — can be crucial.

YALLA! VOTE!