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Re: Cornel West & Tavis Smilely on Obama
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, August 10 2011, 0:20:33 (UTC)
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Marcello wrote:
>Cornel West & Tavis Smiley on Obama: "Many of Us Are Exploring Other Possibilities in Coming Election”Share130
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>http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/9/cornel_west_tavis_smiley_on_obama
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>We speak with veteran journalist Tavis Smiley and Princeton University Professor Cornel West about President Barack Obama and the 2012 elections. "He’s rightly associated much more with the oligarchs than with poor people," says West. Adds Smiley, "I don’t think the President would be hurt, necessarily—the country certainly would not be hurt—by a primary challenge that would refocus him on what really matters. It would refocus him on what’s happening to too many people in this country. It would refocus him on a more progressive agenda." [includes rush transcript]


...I don;t think that's true at all...Obama has been consistent...it's we liberals and starved progressive who fooled ourselves into believing Obama was what he was pretending to be....and these two are making the same mistake again if they think there is a "real" Obama...there is and it's the one we've come to know...he was always working for the Man, always...he just did the Man's dirty work for him down in the hood....He has NEVER sided with the poor, probably not even when he was one himself....he has always looked to join the rich and powerful...the poor and "liberal" were merely his vehicle and politics the highway.



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