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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Obama Is Like Biblical Joshua, Boxing Promoter Don King Says 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 nations 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 dont 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 Washingtons 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. Its 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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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.
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