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Title: Obama Is Like Biblical Joshua, Boxing Promoter Don King Says
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CNSNews.com
URL Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=42227
Published: Jan 21, 2009
Author: By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer
Post Date: 2009-01-21 14:47:51 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Obama, Biblical Joshua
Views: 295
Comments: 12
Obama Is Like Biblical Joshua, Boxing Promoter Don King Says Wednesday, January 21, 2009 By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama is similar to the Biblical character of Joshua and Martin Luther King Jr. was like Moses, boxing promoter Don King told CNSNews.com on Tuesday. Celebrities, including Jay-Z, Smokey Robinson, Don King, Denzel Washington, and Oprah Winfrey, spoke with CNSNews.com in the hours before the inauguration just a few feet from the rostrum where Obama was sworn-in as the nation’s 44th president. They spoke about how Obama had changed their lives and which Biblical character they think he most resembles. “I would say that he would be Joshua going across to the Promised Land,” King told CNSNews.com. “Martin Luther King Jr. went to the mountaintop like Moses, and he said, ‘I might not get there with you, but I can see the Promised Land.’ But we gonna’ get to the Promised Land. So Joshua carried them across. Martin Luther King, Jr. was prevented from going into the Promised Land.” “There are so many Biblical figures who had the same task,” popular R&B singer and songwriter Smokey Robinson told CNSNews.com. “I really don’t know. I just think he is himself and he will go down in world history – not Biblical history – as a world leader who brought people together. Look around you. The world is here.” “I would say any one of the Biblical leaders,” said Denzel Washington’s mother, Lennis Washington, who was attending the inauguration with her son on Tuesday. “The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist – any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.” Other celebrities present at the ceremony shared thoughts with CNSNews.com on how Obama had specifically changed their lives. “Obama changed my life in the same way he has changed your life,” hip-hop artist Jay-Z told CNSNews.com. “He has changed my life just like he has changed your life,” agreed Robinson. “If you are an American citizen, he has changed all of our lives. America has changed our lives. “We are at last showing the world that we are who we say we are,” said Robinson, when asked to be more specific. “It’s truly a wonderful day for the world.” “He makes me want to be a better human being,” said media mogul and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Only King told CNSNews.com that Obama had not changed his life. “No,” said King. “America changed my life. Barack Obama is just a part of the American scene, and what this means to me is that America is looking colorblind. They are no longer suffering from myopia. What we are talking about here is much more profound than just a guy who happens to be American and happens to be black.”
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#1. To: Original_Intent (#0)
Moses didn't write his own material, but he at least attributed his source.
Why do people care what celebrities think? I never could understand that. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
Myopia is mostly genetic and correlates with intelligence. Granted, blacks have better eyesight on average.
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho, Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, And the walls come a tumblin' down!___neegrow commie Paul Robeson
An actual thought would bust the heads of most of the folks mentioned in this article. They didn't do that much thinking, just emoting.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Dumbass negras. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Countries Without a Draft circa 2001 (You'll need this soon if you have kids) RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP you have got to be sh!tting me
Myopia is mostly genetic and correlates with intelligence Turtle wears glasses two feet thick and has an IQ of 271.
In politics there is no murder.
Makes no sense. This reminds me of when Sheila Jackson Lee kept saying 'pacifically' for specifically.
"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude." -- Richard Mitchell (1929-2002) Professor at Glassboro State College, NJ, author, founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian Source: The Underground Grammarian
Don King is living proof that an afterbirth can be kept alive even if the baby dies. King was convicted of stomping to death an employee who owed him six hundred dollars. Although he then embarked on a campaign of hush money payments and witness intimidation, he was convicted of second degree murder and given a life sentence. The judge reduced the conviction to nonnegligent manslaughter. Some found this ruling suspicious, as it was made during a private meeting with King's attorney in the judge's chambers, without the presence of the prosecutor or a court stenographer. King has been investigated for possible connections with organized crime. During a 1992 Senate investigation King took the Fifth Amendment when questioned about his connection to mobster John Gotti.
#2. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
Martin Luther King Jr. was like Moses
#3. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
#4. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
They are no longer suffering from myopia.
#5. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
#6. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
#7. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
Other celebrities present at the ceremony shared thoughts...
Lord Acton
#8. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
President Barack Obama is similar to the Biblical character of Joshua and Martin Luther King Jr. was like Moses, boxing promoter Don King
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#9. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
“I would say any one of the Biblical leaders,” said Denzel Washington’s mother, Lennis Washington, who was attending the inauguration with her son on Tuesday. “The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist – any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.”
#10. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#4)
#11. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
and what this means to me is that America is looking colorblind. They are no longer suffering from myopia.
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