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Emeritus and Chairman of the Board Originally posted 2/28/2008 The time is fast approaching _When America has to decide who its next President will be. The way things are going now, one would believe that Senator Barack Obama has a shot. We say this with eyes shut and fingers. crossed because we never expected to have a | Senator Barack Obama in - our time. We thought—most_ of us, that is—that he was a fiction, something out there somewhere who had come to rescue us from white folks at some later date in some later time. There is a song from a poet and songwriter entitled “Send In The Clowns.” In one of the phrases he concludes, “Don’t bother;:~ They are here.” And‘in a very real sense, we are clowns pretending that we _ can pick a man or a woman Farrakhan fallout from Obama-Clinton debate to run a country and then we answer, indeed we can. _ Senator Hillary Rodham _ Clinton and Senator Barack Obama are our presidential _ many instances, hey have now. - Every time Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama candidates. We win, no matter ‘debate, there is something — which one of these wins. It would be a blessing, if one can call it that, if they ran. between them that is not anger or hostility, It is a , regard for another human against each other and finally being whose measure one has then decided that if one of them, it really doesn’t matter which one, becomes taken and said to oneself he or 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 all possible worlds for those of the liberal bent in America who have hungered for honesty and decency in government in America for a long time. We have not had that. We have had a series of . regard Senator John McCain at all. Perhaps it would be wise to call him a patriot, although a patriot does not appear as crazed as Senator John McCain seems to be. It _ would be difficult for any ~ human being who happens to be Black to. trust that man with the key to anything, crooks, really, who, if they are especially the kingdom that. not selling out to the Saudi,s they are selling out to a series of little men in pinstriped suits who call themselves expeditors on the one hand ~-and consultants on the other while they wind up being _ what they actually are, crooks, who wish to rob America of er integrity. In we know-as.the United States - of America. "We are told that within the next few days, after the primary vote in Texas and . Ohio, that we will know who the Democratic nominee will be for President. Let us hope and pray that it is our Hilary , ‘continued, ‘’And it looked as Clinton or Barack Obama. No juncture, and certainly there are few who would be as" good for America as these © two. Every once in a while from out of nowhere—and certainly, Barack Obama springs from nowhere—there comes a knight in shining armor who is there to rescue the princess. This country, for all intents and purposes, is a princess and should be treated as such. Barack Obama can do that. So can Hillary Clinton. We have said so many times. the'trup ens of te Sak” that no matter which one of and Hillary Rodham Clinton those—Hillary or Barack—_ might just be the ones who wins the nomination and _ come to rescue us from the hopefully the presidency that . fascist crooks, thieves, big America wins and the rest of — business et al. . the world wins, too. We do not 2 say these words lightly, for we We must follow these see looming on the horizon ©: Movements in the political those who could become arena quickly. We can never fascist in our time whose goal _ tell when the lying and the it is to rule America. We are cheating and the stealing fortunate that it didn’t happen _Wil begin. Let us be on top yet, but it can and it might. of our game. Let us use our defense team wisely going Our heads are not yet cleared into the arena to fight for for our accepting the the America that Ought tc to possibility that Barack Obama, be. _ a Black African-American in iatinges te by NAYABA ARINDE Lott, he noted. though I might ‘ Blacks, whites, Mexicans, whoever i isgoingtobe the ough I might pay a price for ~ everybody. He sees him as.a-~ president, his hope is.in . , Hillary.to make him reje Amsterdam 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 0 7 people, this past weekend at —_ associated with people who something that ushers in the the hand ot Gade doingin Christiz istiay Signal Posted 2282008 the Savor’s 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 oy Nation of Islam leader Israel or Jewish people in our - teacher and he 7 looking “He is running apolitical who you are ating fe for the The sparks are flying after Farrakhan are eri coultry.” outside of all of this. 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It moment to make mischief. _ than “denounce” the 74-year- s4ic; Farrakhan said he did not everyone is Saying that he would be was 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 “anti- him also, litmus test in Barack Obama’s Charles Barron was livid on Barron added, “Many of been hammered by 11 straight Semite,” and as he pushed the Obama, an attomey pointed °ampaign, which he said Wednesday moming after Barack’ s Black supporters — losses to Obama since Feb. 5. point and called on Obamato “1 ha would be the plan of the watching the debate. like me, are also: ; heb out that Farrakhan hadnot * Son arrakhan biesicing te offered any help per se, and “"©My. Notice that Barack “I couldn’t have been more sare He isa While 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’s man who has saved 1 - in print and bi ds and that besides, the two irks phan beicadhanand, performance,” he boomed. rorked to print and on blogs unacceptable and i him, but Hillary Clinton mares Ce ec ) w help whole filibustered about which - reprehensible.” words were the same in bis be While he is going to be the ies: faaiitien ind Hillary Rodham Clinton tas effect, Yet in aquiescing to pressed bigs on it. nominee, it was despicable to individual ce if you say would show up-— emotional, _Stressing his “’stalwart her demand, he offered: ‘’But. you see Obama has a heart, US the way he played to white you don’t support combative, or . Support” for Israel and long- _ if the word ‘reject’ Senator ~ he is not cut throat like America and did a shameful everything he has said, you compassionate— they all standing relationship with Clinton feels is stronger than — Hillary Clinton, and that is “hing in denouncing Min. don’t reject the whole man agreed that she would have to members of the Jewish the word ‘denounce,’ then I’ ™M — why she lost ten states in a Fatrakhan at the behest of and his works, You come strong 80 as not tolose © COmmunity Obama said, “I happy to concede the point. ry, putting out pictures of Hillary Clinton. acknowledge his place in again 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 “Don’t 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 us unequivocally that if his wife Wright, Jr. of Trinity United of “denouncing” Min, > now proud ‘What made it worse Was not SP Re i 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 — - a So it was a sometimes reiterated that he has “some _him the benefit of the doubt. - anything to win.” belligerent and Pa me ee vat support from ae, confrontational Clinton who vewisn community," 8 rigs 0 owe ‘i -_ Clinton decided that she bie aH be any : Animated, Min, Muhammad when thodertor Tim Russert WOU Ad her two cent, Muhammad , head of then declared, “Barack has a rsked him tat old stale Din ber 2000 Senate ru Harlem's Mosque Number 7, different type of politics that [Min. 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