Posted on 08/24/2014 6:32:07 AM PDT by IncPen
Full title: "Cornel West: 'He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency'”
No, the thing is he posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency. The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair. And that’s a very sad moment in the history of the nation because we are—we’re an empire in decline. Our culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of our civil life. You would think that we needed somebody—a Lincoln-like figure who could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility.
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Gee, the “intellectual, smarter than the rest of us” are outing themselves as rubes. Ha, us Rush Limbaugh, talkradio listening, wingnutjteabaggers had Obama pegged from the beginning. I’m horrified by the Obama Presidency. I said when he took office that we’ll be lucky to get through his term(s) without a major catastrophe. 9/11 was planned and launched under Clinton. We’re not out of the woods by any means, indeed the woods seem to have caught fire. And we have no idea what our enemies are planning for us or our allies or against whirled peas.
Cornel's upset that Obama isn't doing it fast enough.
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