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    OBAMA TELLS TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS TO UNITE DURING PARTY PRIMARY
    Kris Alingod

    Gant Daily
    http://www.gantdaily.com/news/35/ARTICLE/275 91/2008-08-07.html
    Aug 7 2008
    PA

    Washington, D.C.(AHN) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) weighed in on the
    racially charged race for the Democratic nomination in Tennessee's
    9th congressional district on Thursday as voters in the state went
    to the polls.

    "These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics,
    and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee," Obama said
    in an emailed statement. "It's time to turn the page on a politics
    driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to
    lift up our communities and our country." Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
    is in a bid to seek a second term as the only white U.S. congressman
    to represent a predominantly black district. He faces Nikki Tinker,
    an African American, who has ignited controversy by launching an ad
    criticizing Cohen for not supporting efforts to remove a statue of
    Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Klu Klux Klan leader.

    Fliers asking, "Why do Steve Cohen and the Jews Hate Jesus?" and
    written by an African-American minister who supports Tinker have also
    been distributed in Memphis.

    Cohen, who is Jewish, sponsored a recently passed bill in the
    House "apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of
    African-Americans." He has reportedly been accused of assault after
    he threw out a filmmaker from his home on Wednesday.

    Cohen says Tinker has the support of Armenian-Americans and that the
    filmmaker, Peter Musurlian, has inaccurately reported about his House
    bill condemning Turkey's treatment of Armenian during World War II as
    "genocide."

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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