Posted on 08/15/2011 3:32:54 PM PDT by neverdem
African-American leaders fear academic rebel Cornel West’s fierce attacks on the president could spell trouble in 2012.
How did Cornel West become the administration’s No. 1 gadfly? The noted African-American scholar and radio host may have helped Barack Obama into the White House, but he has spent the better part of the president’s term taking shots at him, calling him a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs,” among other names. “These last few weeks have only proven my point about Brother Obama,” West says in his signature “one love” voice as he talks about the debt-reduction debacle on Capitol Hill. “He simply caved in again.”
Never mind the slings and arrows of Tea Partiers. The most politically problematic criticism of Obama these days is coming from his base. And there’s no question that there is a deep reservoir of frustration, confusion, and even rage among many in the African-American community for West to tap into. With unemployment hovering near 17 percent for African-Americans (the national average rate is 9 percent) and 11 percent of black homeowners facing imminent foreclosure, African-Americans have ample reason for anxiety about the coming budget cuts that Obama reluctantly signed into law this month. The Congressional Black Caucus chairman called the recent debt deal “a sugar-coated satan sandwich” that will do little to help communities already struggling.
West and his longtime friend, radio host Tavis Smiley, have taken their criticism of Obama to the streets, launching a two-week, 15-city “poverty tour,” aimed at forcing the powers that be to once again focus on the “least among us” and getting the president to “wake up.” Their efforts are increasingly stoking fears among some African-American leaders that West and Smiley could discourage black voters from turning out when the nation’s first African-American president stands for reelection in 2012...
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And we all know who Cornel West is going to be voting for in 2012. And it ain’t going to be Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, or Michele Bachmann
No. 1 gadfly? A lot of people will take issue with that.
Reminds me of the two British politicians, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison: The story goes that someone once remarked of Morrison that he was his own worst enemy, and Bevin immediately butted in to say "Not while I'm alive, he ain't".
Or maybe other critics just don't like being called flies.
West is a barely articulate saliva-spraying racist who has been AA'd to prominence. He's never going to vote anything but the straight black race reparations ticket. His complaints are solely aimed at urging Obama to squeeze a few more drops out of Whitey.
What else would anyone expect of a nation whose people prove that they are not racist by electing a President for no reason other than his race?
It's always a shock when truth shatters delusions!
Can someone please list for me the qualifications to become an africanamerican scholar.
Can one be a CaucasianAmerican and be an africanamerican scholar?
“Poverty Tour” That’s good.
Why didn’t the Obama team think of that one?
17% black unemployment under Obama. More than double that under the “racist” Bush “who doesn’t care about black people”. But his approval rating is sky-high in the black community. I think there could be 50% black unemployment and his approval ratings woudn’t budge in that group. And what are they bitching about anyway? We have the richest “poor” people on earth. What else can literally be given them? They already get “free” everything.
Likely so...but the more he ramps up the criticism the less likely the lazy, apathetic, Obama-voters are likely to make the effort to go to the polling place...and there are plenty of them.
Only if Rush has joined a monastery or a commune.
All that money he "makes", and like Leon Spinks, "Brother" Cornel can't get his mouth fixed!
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Just about a perfect post, especially your last line!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad..............
Anyone who calls cornell west a “noted African-American scholar” is either a racist, a commie or an imbecile - probably all three.
As president of the United States, obuma needs to represent all Americans, not some sub-class of politically-correct, knuckle-dragging savages. And I include the drooling commie west in the above description.
Rojbert kenedy is po,d over not getting special treatment for his oil spill movie
Forgive me, oh PC Speech PolicePersons, for when I read ‘Cornel’ West I assumed it was a written reference to Col. West and the line had been written by a pooblic skool graduate.
Turns out there IS a Cornel West.
Thanks neverdem.
This is nonsense. Obama will get at least 95% of the black vote. Period.
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