I’m halfway through David Kindred’s Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship, a dual biography of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. They had a "professional friendship." Basically they were good for each other’s bank accounts.

The most powerful figure in the book is Malcolm X, "done away with" by Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of the House of Islam. Ali, by now a Pekinese on Elijah’s leash, says: "(Malcolm X) had to die for the things he said."

All it took to make it big in the 20th Century was bottomless narcissism, and both Ali and Mao Zedong certainly had that. There’s more in common between these two, certainly more than between Cosell and the former Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.

Malcolm X – after pointing out Elijah Muhammad’s hypocrisy – was put on parole as a minister of Islam, increasingly excoriated by the brothers, made a virtual pariah and then marked for Jihad. After touring Equatorial Africa and the Sahara, Malcolm X returned to tell us that he now understood Man’s Rainbow Nature. He buried his hatchets against the white races, saw good in all and was promptly assassinated by black racists. Had Malcolm X been allowed to live, he would have saved us from Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Barack Obama.

What are America’s elites up to? What is it about them that Malcolm X would have seen through?

America was a Rainbow Experiment with many agonizing growing pains. The central core of the American soul has been to bless the Rainbow and loved it for the sake of its beauty.

Sonny Liston going down in the sixth round of his first championship match with Cassius Clay was a blatant fix, and everyone knew it. Liston’s worst fate was to realize, from his stool in the corner of that sixth round, that the fight never had to be fixed in the first place. Clay was without question the better fighter.

I wonder now, after realizing how Ali had so quickly turned his back on one of his best friends, Malcolm X, who was the better man? Ali or Liston? Albeit, Liston had a felony record and Ali promised to help his buddy out of his despair. I’ve yet to find out if he did.

Regardless, the extraordinary man in Sound and Fury is Malcolm X.

The salt-and-pepper duo of Ali and Cosell were essentially entertainers. There’s a whole chapter on ABC’s decision to fold sports into the entertainment division. As one of the executives notes: "Hell, news has to be entertainment. We all know that. Why not sports? Get inside the drama with close-ups, running commentary, interviews interlaced throughout." Well, to do that you need larger-than-life characters like Ali and Cosell.

Malcolm X was a sound-and-fury signifying more about the future of human consciousness than anyone in the 20th Century. Shedding centuries of growing hatred of whites – the hit song for Ali in that period was Louis Farrakhan’s A White Man’s Heaven Is a Black Man’s Hell! – Malcolm X saw in Islamic and Equatorial Africa the very Rainbow Human Race that Dr. Martin Luther King had spoken about so eloquently. No one in 20th Century America remained MORE true to himself than did Malcolm X. By the end, he saw the Rainbow for its own sake.

For the Clinton/Bush Pax Americana, the Rainbow is sitting there, to be used, crossbred and experimented with in order to build a Superhuman Race. The Liberal Progressives and Hypocritical Conservatives are out to create a New and Improved Human Race. Why do you think Senator Hillary Clinton ties Science and Women’s Rights together so umbilically? Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to abort her children are not only the salesmen of the New World Order; they are the Siamese twins who literally broke the American door down and destroyed our "inalienable right to life"…when created, not gestated.

If and when I meet Senator Barack Obama on a debating platform, I’ll simply read this to him. Let’s see if his dreams aren’t more closely wed than even the Power Friendship between the Bush and Clinton families.

As he ponders the presidency, Obama may well be asking himself: "Is this a Malcolm X I see before me?"

Rainbow Dreams, indeed!