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CB# 393 chopelA/Xl, ^ C(D1] C29i1 VOLUME 87 - NUMBER;?^^.^ Cli^Can Black Voters Strain to Hear What Presidential Candidates Are Not Saying TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS I By Hazel Trice Edney WASHINGTON (NNPA) - The day afterDrefumntivr'n’^''*®*^ • historic victory, the monthly jobs report showed th^African-Zer^ln Barack Obama announced his than all other racial groups. Jobless rate as being once again higher At 9.7 percent, black unemployment is almost five noints ahr.,» fu u-. Jove the Hispanic-American rate of 6.9 percent, and more than four po;t‘:bre ^^nlSu^S oS health care, now that the Primaries^arrover Md Sct'’Hdirry^Cfi^^^^^^ “ ‘''''"’'"a'Jast'ce system to African-Americans across the nation are looking to hear from Obama Id R Obama, McCain exactly how they will change the disparate social impacts on the^hG nominee John Some say they're not speaking loud enough abourthoseTsLe that fl r “They’ve got to talk abut job creation,” says Bill Spriggs chairman ofThe 2:s j?- ■'•i ” 1-™ 2“ K.7J rs; .!»d..i wift it means you’re going forward, but you’re still the last car ” ^ caboose. It you’re in the caboose, Spriggs says it will be difficult for either candidate to sDeakahr„.tti,„d- • • during the campaign except from a policy standpoint “That’s why it’s^moortam'"h°'^ the jobless rate says, stressing the need for policy-oriented staffers on any campaign he (Continued On Paged) t NCcirL'eTory m. cf As Presumptive Nominee, Obama Prepares to Choose Running Mate By Zenitha Prince Technology EnterpriserBRITETTcCu‘tnents'*wilfteeduca\^d''ard“ra^^^ 'IdT" “■'’■"“"“■‘'c’tnring nesearcn inttitute ano thief legal counsel, NC Office of CoveTnof ’ LEAF Foundation; Reuben Youn^^, Obama slams McCain on economy, says U.S. debt would double under WAcun,^.,. By Steven R. Hurst lican ■ “^^ffcat Barack Obama slammed his Repub- policies he called the “most fiscally irresponsible in history.” Pended'her''hiH Clinton sus- E Obama focused on the economic onempioyrennhafne ri;"'- """''8^ "°sts and growing House from Repubhcms ««rmin'’e?oV R^Pt'Wican strongholds and swing Arizona distinctions between himself and McCai in, the CPnoFev,. Jiz ailU IVlCV^aill, me tvictorv b^nL^h Obama is banking on building lihtwis^ is^work^'"F Republican regions. McCain ’ ™tking to undo Democratic control in America’s cn-caiic. Iitcw se is r . ■sspus,,,,aii legions. ivici_ain, hluestates ^ ® Democratic control in America’s so-called hiiliontothenaH implemented, they would add $5.7 that’s wha ^ o ■Lbat isn’t fiscal conserva- "t'junior Illinoa *b® ^'gb* years,” Obama, voted forTn I North Carolina, a state that has 1 Obama off 0™°^ratic presidential candidate since 1976. hnphasizehirZn™ ^P^ch.He used the occasion to "proposals Ind a- differences with McCain and to summarize earli- "8 a $ I 000 tax r t',"® income taxes on wealthy Americans, grant- «lit card remuL "''"‘*'"8 ‘b® 'mq war, tightening 'i’efuelsanH iof pumping more money into education, altema- McCairn, ‘"/’■f‘■■“eture such as roads and bridges. ‘'Ill’s tax cuts Obama’s bid to end the Bush administra- *'"88ling econom^yAmericans would only worsen the already b"r originally opposing Bush’s first-term tax upporting their continuation. He said he would place a windfall profits tax on oil companies while McCain would reduce their t3X6S. “This (the U.S. economic crisis) was not an inevitable part of the busi ness cycle that was beyond our power to avoid. It was the logical conclu sion of a tired and misguided philosophy that has dominated Washington for far too long, ’ Obama said from a lectern flanked by two American flags and a blue backdrop inscribed with the word “change.” And in a nod to the U.S. generation known as the baby boomers, those bom in the prosperous years after World War II and now reaching retire- ment, Obama vowed not to tinker with Social Security government retire- ment benefits. While John McCain wants to pick up where George Bush left oflf bv trying again to privatize Social Security, I will never waver in my com mitment to protect that basic promise as president. We will not privatize Socia Security we will not raise the retirement age, and we will save Social Security for future generations by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share,” said Obama, who would be America’s first African American president. McCain, meanwhile, reversed course Monday and allowed the media into a private fundraiser, where he chided Obama for his reluctance to agree to a senes of joint town-hail meetings. The $10.000-per-ticket reception for the presumed Republican nomi nee, the national party and several state parties marked the first time Mc Cain, a champion of open government, had allowed reporters into his fund raisers. The four-term senator had kept such events off limits to the ma'ia lor months with little or no explanation. The event and a $ 1,000-a-ticket luncheon raised $800,000 for McCain and the Republican Party. • bleCain reiterated his offer to Obama to join him at a town-hall meet ing and field questions from voters. McCain said he would meet Obama wherever and whenever, then suggested this week in New York (Continued On Page 4) ‘he Afro-American Newspapers WASHINGTON (NNPA) - On June 3, Sen. Barack Obama defied his- toiy. becoming the first African-American candidate to head a major party ticket and having a viable chance of taking the helm of the White House. America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to Ukti the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country that we love,” said Obama from a stage in St. Paul Minn “The journey will be difficult,” he added. “The road will be long.” After ending the 5-month primary season Tuesday the way he began - with a victory in Montana - and accumulating enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, Obama can now turn his attention to picking a vice presidential running mate. ° It s a simple and difficult thing at the same time,” said David Bositis senior analyst for the Joint Center on Political and Economic Studies, a Washington. D.C.-based think tank. "The simple part is knowing what the calculations are that you’re go ing to be looking for the vice president has to be someone who is qualified to be president if something happens,” he said. “But it’s not like there’s a checklist that you can go down and check off.” Especially since the rubric used to guide the choice of running mates seemed to have changed given the almost universal disenchantment caused by the two-term Bush administration; the war on terrorism; the historical overtones of a race m which a woman and an African-American both stood good chances of piercing the ultimate glass ceiling but mostly, analysis say because of shifting population and, therefore, voter demographics For Obama, the stakes will be especially high. Still seen by voters as an enigmatic candidate with limited Washington experience, the senator’s choice of a running mate will be used to gauge his decision-making pro- cess and partly define his candidacy. '■[That choice] tells us a great deal about the candidate his judgment and w hat values are important to him,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Obama s signature message of change and a post-partisanship White House will be best served by picking someone such as Republican Sen Chuck Hagel, said political analyst Ronald Walters. , TfRepublican senator who is leaving and who has been at odds with his party for most of the time that he’s been in Congress ” Walters explained. “He s likely to bring along some Republicans and inde pendents and would strengthen Obama’s point about being bi-partisan.” But before Obama makes nice-nice across the aisle, he’ll have to con sider how to bring unity back to a party that has been divided by his some times acrimonious contest with Sen. Hillary Clinton. According to one participant in a Tuesday afternoon conference call among Clinton and members of the New York congressional delegation she was asked whether she would become Obama’s running mate and Clinton reportedly replied, "I am open to it.” Clinton has announced she woffid suspend her campaign and endorse her erstwhile rival on Saturday. Democratic leaders, pundits and votqrs have long advocated a shared ticket as a sure-to-win combination that will repair a breach formed be tween women, white working-class and older voters, who support Clinton and the African- Americans, college graduates and young voters who side With Obama. If It works out that Sen, Obama is the nominee, the strongest ticket would be Sen. Clinton as vice president. No question in my mind be cause the constituencies in the votes are different,” California Sen Dianne beinstein, a Clinton supporter, told the New York Post. “The weight of the states he carried versus the states she carried it’s different. And, therefore It you combine them both, you’ve got the best electoral path ” Not eveiyone agrees. Detractors say Clinton would bring more liabilities to Obama s campaign than assets. Not only would she not fit into Obama’s theme of change, there would also be the political baggage of Bill. “I’m not crazy about an Obama-Clinton ticket because it brings with it the past president of the United States and that’s a problem for Obama,” Walters said, “The question will be, 'Whose administration is it? Is it Obama s or is it Bill Clinton’s third administration?”’ Walters noted, ‘‘We’ve seen what he can do in this campaign. He has a lot of bodies buried in Washington and around the world. He can pick ' up the telephone and interfere in a way that would muddy the water about who’s in control.” Generally, the president and his VP should have good chemistry. How ever, too much III will may have developed between the two candidates some say. I ■■ i. k il
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