OPINION SMinority VoleeFebreary 2-Mar 2008 pg5by WILBERT A. TATUM "Publisher. Emeritus andChairman of the BoardOriginally posted 2/28/2008The time is fast approaching_When America has to decidewho its next President willbe. The way things aregoing now, one wouldbelieve that Senator BarackObama has a shot. We saythis with eyes shut andfingers. crossed because wenever expected to have a |Senator Barack Obama in -our time. We thought "most_of us, that is "that he was afiction, something out theresomewhere who had cometo rescue us from whitefolks at some later date insome later time.There is a song from a poetand songwriter entitled oSend In The Clowns. ? Inone of the phrases heconcludes, oDon Tt bother;:~They are here. ? And in avery real sense, we areclowns pretending that we _can pick a man or a womanFarrakhan fallout from Obama-Clinton debateto run a country and then weanswer, indeed we can._ Senator Hillary Rodham_ Clinton and Senator BarackObama are our presidential_ many instances, hey havenow.- Every time Senators HillaryClinton and Barack Obamacandidates. We win, no matter debate, there is something "which one of these wins. Itwould be a blessing, if onecan call it that, if they ran.between them that is notanger or hostility, It is a, regard for another humanagainst each other and finally being whose measure one hasthen decided that if one ofthem, it really doesn Tt matterwhich one, becomestaken and said to oneself heor she is good.president, the other one would There is no reason for us to~ be chosen for vice president. .It becomes the best of allpossible worlds for those ofthe liberal bent in Americawho have hungered forhonesty and decency ingovernment in America for along time. We have not hadthat. We have had a series of. regard Senator John McCainat all. Perhaps it would bewise to call him a patriot,although a patriot does notappear as crazed as SenatorJohn McCain seems to be. It_ would be difficult for any~ human being who happens tobe Black to. trust that manwith the key to anything,crooks, really, who, if they are especially the kingdom that.not selling out to the Saudi,sthey are selling out to a seriesof little men in pinstripedsuits who call themselvesexpeditors on the one hand~-and consultants on the otherwhile they wind up being_ what they actually are,crooks, who wish to robAmerica of er integrity. Inwe know-as.the United States -of America."We are told that within thenext few days, after theprimary vote in Texas and .Ohio, that we will know whothe Democratic nominee willbe for President. Let us hopeand pray that it is our Hilary , continued, TAnd it looked asClinton or Barack Obama. Nojuncture, and certainly thereare few who would be as"good for America as these ©two.Every once in a while fromout of nowhere "andcertainly, Barack Obamasprings from nowhere "therecomes a knight in shiningarmor who is there to rescuethe princess. This country, forall intents and purposes, is aprincess and should be treatedas such. Barack Obama cando that. So can HillaryClinton.We have said so many times. the'trup ens of te Sak ?that no matter which one of and Hillary Rodham Clintonthose "Hillary or Barack "_ might just be the ones whowins the nomination and _ come to rescue us from thehopefully the presidency that . fascist crooks, thieves, bigAmerica wins and the rest of " business et al. .the world wins, too. We do not 2say these words lightly, for we We must follow thesesee looming on the horizon ©: Movements in the politicalthose who could become arena quickly. We can neverfascist in our time whose goal _ tell when the lying and theit is to rule America. We are cheating and the stealingfortunate that it didn Tt happen _Wil begin. Let us be on topyet, but it can and it might. of our game. Let us use ourdefense team wisely goingOur heads are not yet cleared into the arena to fight forfor our accepting the the America that Ought tc topossibility that Barack Obama, be._ a Black African-American iniatingesteby NAYABA ARINDE Lott, he noted. though I might Blacks, whites, Mexicans, whoever i isgoingtobe theough I might pay a price for ~ everybody. He sees him as.a-~ president, his hope is.in . , Hillary.to make him rejeAmsterdam News Editor In front of a crowd of 20,000 that. ButI would not be beraid oe that means but we sliool pine St hil eh 07 people, this past weekend at "_ associated with people who something that ushers in the the hand ot Gade doingin Christiz istiaySignal Posted 2282008 the Savor Ts Day gathering at ad such inflammatory and coming ofthe Messiah. Min. guiding Barack Obama,Chicago's McCormick Place, untrue charges against either Farrakhan is a spiritual oyNation of Islam leader Israel or Jewish people in our - teacher and he 7 looking oHe is running apolitical who you are ating fe for theThe sparks are flying after Farrakhan are eri coultry. ? outside of all of this. He is not re op a way hers have lency to push you toesday night T idential | campaign and vision. | he Mil | talked about how it should who iae biracial warned too that detractors With a focused glare, she like Mike Huckabee who isa 3 but he Ts act al he against a _ " 4: , ores pastor-turned-politician. mm, | ally doing. supporting you. ? eeDemocratic senators Barack would try and seize the called on Obama to do more aaObama and Hillary Clinton. It moment to make mischief. _ than odenounce ? the 74-year- s4ic; Farrakhan said he did not everyone is Saying that he would bewas do-or-die, oun Russert condemned = old Farrakhan, but to reject ? not want to be used as the impressed, Councilman penning a letter:to Obama,charged for Clinton, who has ' Farrakhan as an oanti- him also, litmus test in Barack Obama Ts Charles Barron was livid on Barron added, oMany ofbeen hammered by 11 straight Semite, ? and as he pushed the Obama, an attomey pointed °ampaign, which he said Wednesday moming after Barack T s Black supporters "losses to Obama since Feb. 5. point and called on Obamato o1 ha would be the plan of the watching the debate. like me, are also:; heb out that Farrakhan hadnot * Son arrakhanbiesicing te offered any help per se, and o"©My. Notice that Barack oI couldn Tt have been more sare He isaWhile talking heads on cable did just that, calling some of os there eat nothig si reject said that he would not reject dis saiiod Wi th Obama Ts man who has saved 1- in print and bi ds and that besides, the two irks phan beicadhanand, performance, ? he boomed. rorked toprint and on blogs unacceptable and i him, but Hillary Clinton mares Ce ec ) w help wholefilibustered about which - reprehensible. ? words were the same in bis be While he is going to be the ies: faaiitien indHillary Rodham Clinton tas effect, Yet in aquiescing to pressed bigs on it. nominee, it was despicable to individual ce if you saywould show up- " emotional, _Stressing his o Tstalwart her demand, he offered: TBut. you see Obama has a heart, US the way he played to white you don Tt supportcombative, or . Support ? for Israel and long- _ if the word reject T Senator ~ he is not cut throat like America and did a shameful everything he has said, youcompassionate " they all standing relationship with Clinton feels is stronger than " Hillary Clinton, and that is ohing in denouncing Min. don Tt reject the whole managreed that she would have to members of the Jewish the word denounce, T then I T ?"?M " why she lost ten states in a Fatrakhan at the behest of and his works, Youcome strong 80 as not tolose © COmmunity Obama said, oI happy to concede the point. ry, putting out pictures of Hillary Clinton. acknowledge his place inagain to the Illinois man who- have been very clear in my And I would reject and Obama in African Muslim our local, national and.would-be-president in the denunciation of his anti- denounce. ? The crowd garb as if there is something Se international community,March 4, Ohio and Texas Semitic comments. ? , seemed amused by his calmly wrong with being a Muslim, " Not quite wringing his hands ;ptimaries. Even former Asked to virtually condemn delivered response, or going after Michelle in distress, a vexed Barron oDon Tt keep ming |preside (ill Paar wiated his pastor, Dr, Jeremiah A, _ " In the aftermath, the statergy en n yori ep en ore at America, and give usunequivocally that if his wife Wright, Jr. of Trinity United of odenouncing ? Min, now proud What made it worse Was not SP Rei ght, ty offerin Barack Obama did he Min. nothing.lost in those states her Church of Christ who had Farrakhan, was lost on some, / mn a only d : denounce :campaign would be toast. praised Farrakhan, Ob whl some prepared to give | t rele " - aSo it was a sometimes reiterated that he has osome _him the benefit of the doubt. - anything to win. ?belligerent and Pa me ee vat support from ae,confrontational Clinton who vewisn community," 8rigs 0 owe i -_ Clinton decided that she bie aH be any : Animated, Min, Muhammadwhen thodertor Tim Russert WOU Ad her two cent, Muhammad , head of then declared, oBarack has arsked him tat old stale Din ber 2000 Senate ru Harlem's Mosque Number 7, different type of politics that[Min. Louis] Ftilban When the Independence Party oHe said to the people, if you *PPeals to the American hich political in New York State offered want a Black leader, look to. People. Min, Farrakhan saidrote Mi Swed support, she said she flat out ev, Jesse Jackson, Rev, tat We can Tt make him out tooe nied Oar All uows rejoins & pallid Sharpton, himself, He said : be what he is not. He has afol alra askof African Wider the control of people _ don Tt make Obama what he is @*tain make up that makesechrian 9 who were anti-semitic, bel him want to have justice forAmerican leaders, No one i hug a not, He is.a. man with a " !king John McCain Israel. , vision, running forthe both sides. The minister toldesi py " o8 t it ewer of the United us to vote our interests. Heme od iae ten a eee States Heisreching oto _ Said his hope is notin