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Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit...
Salon ^ | SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014 | THOMAS FRANK

Posted on 08/24/2014 6:32:07 AM PDT by IncPen

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To: DaxtonBrown

That’s it exactly. It’s “through the looking-glass” lunacy with so many on the left condemning Øbozo - but because he fails to meet their bat-shiite crazy standards.


21 posted on 08/24/2014 7:16:24 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: IncPen

Whas the problem bee? your homey not spittin out the benjamins fast enough?


22 posted on 08/24/2014 7:17:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: IncPen
I fear that leftists will never learn the lesson of repeated socialist failures until mankind overcomes Original Sin. It is a symptom of God playing to want to be the Wizard of Oz or the genius who controls the Global Skinner Box.

Their malady is untreatable with logic or with experience to which they are immune. In fact leftist do not need education but Reformation, a new birth.


23 posted on 08/24/2014 7:17:56 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: IncPen
No, the thing is he posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.

Cornell, he's both and your faux outrage isn't fooling me. I think you're gloating.

You and I both know he's the most progressive marxist you've yet put in the highest of places AND he's counterfeit.

Hiding behind a sealed past, he's a false facade, both like a Hollywood set and the actor reading his lines.

How else would he have been able to fool ordinary Americans into voting for someone embodying the ideology we once went to war with merged with allah?

Your faux outrage is boring, man. Just go back to rubbing our noses in it like usual.

24 posted on 08/24/2014 7:18:08 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

“What’s truly frightening is that if Obama is a defective Progressive, what kind of Hell on Earth are these people proposing to replace him?”
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They are proposing a total hell on Earth but in their pointy heads they may actually believe that the Earth would be a heaven if only Obama were MORE progressive. He has actually been called a conservative by some of them which is like saying that the late great Mickey Rooney was a giant because he was so much taller than Herve Villechaize.


25 posted on 08/24/2014 7:23:46 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: IncPen
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.

Obama governs as his international bankster masters demand - just like his predecessor. That's the Faustian bargain any candidate must make to obtain the office in the first place. The candidate understands he may have a bit of leeway to make changes in certain areas important to him, personally - but there are lines he dares not cross.

Obama may be a nasty, Islamist-sympathizing, neo-Communist thug with a visceral hatred for the white middle class - but the banksters do not care about what petty domestic actions he takes to warp the social fabric of America - only that he keeps his hands off of finance and uses the military as they direct him to.

26 posted on 08/24/2014 7:24:11 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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To: IncPen
He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.

Oh Hell No.

Obama is a progressive in every conceivable way. Cornel, you don't get to pretend that he isn't the living embodiment of your souless CryptoMarxism.

27 posted on 08/24/2014 7:25:02 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: GBA
No, the thing is he posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.

Cornell, he's both and your faux outrage isn't fooling me. I think you're gloating.

It's worth noting that this crowd doesn't use Clintonian Triangulation the way you'd expect.

For instance, Axelrod came out and said that the Texas indictment of Gov. Perry re: the drunk DA was wrong. In Clinton-land, you'd expect Axelrod to come out a few days later and say, 'well, I've looked at it closer and I think the indictment is justified'. That's how they push-pull opinion on the left; someone makes it ok to have an opinion and they all follow. But that's not what's happening here.

The old saying is that you never ascribe malice to that which can be explained by incompetence. I wonder if the left is coming to believe that they've got a dangerous incompetent narcissist on their hands? Will they remove him procedurally before he ruins the party for a decade or more?

28 posted on 08/24/2014 7:31:45 AM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: DaxtonBrown

They want to replace him with a rapid female liberal, who will make her Presidency theme “war on men and traditional male, female families”.


29 posted on 08/24/2014 8:02:42 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: IncPen
There’s a lot of disillusionment now. My liberal friends included. The phrase that I have heard from more than one person in the last year is they feel like they got played.

Liberals were played for fools... . One wonders... is it possible they'll wake up to the obvious?

That it's them - they ARE fools?

Obama never said he was "Lincoln' or 'the One'... it was his idiot foolish freaky butt-kisser followers who came up with the worship thing... same with Clinton.

Clinton was a President feminists bowed before - he was 'the one' who understood women - until he was boinking teenagers in the White House... and bullying low power women like Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick... Foolish liberal 'feminists' felt they had been 'played for fools' too. They weren't.

They weren't played for fools. They WERE fools.

The rest of us saw Clinton . We saw Obama.

And the real fun starts in two years when liberals will do the same with the next 'ONE' who they will worship without question - assured in their foolishness that he thinks 'just like they do'

Thomas Frank of Salon is a fool - waiting with baited breath to be fooled again... Hillary - he's ready to worship... he's buying his kneepads for the next 'one'.

30 posted on 08/24/2014 8:05:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (New York Times headline gaffe:'Obama Outraged Over Beheading, Vows to Stay on Course')
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To: ClearCase_guy

he isn’t doing it fast enough to suit the leftists


31 posted on 08/24/2014 8:11:46 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: griswold3
For example, they really believe that raising taxes will increase revenue

No they do not. Obama himself said he wanted to raise taxes even if revenues declined, for the "fairness" of it all.

32 posted on 08/24/2014 8:14:52 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: IncPen
Interesting observations and that's a good point about malice and incompetence.

We'll have to wait and see how things shake out, but I think they're a lot like surfers and the weather and water have changed a bit.

There are lots of styles and skill levels on display, but I like to watch how the experienced surfers change with the conditions.

A good surfer knows how to put him/herself in position to catch a swell and, depending how it develops, maybe ride it to shore or wait for the next one.

And even if conditions mandate they get out of the water and go home, in their hearts they're still surfers looking for a wave to ride.

And there's always another wave.

33 posted on 08/24/2014 8:19:07 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: IncPen

Can Spike Jones, Van Jones and Tom BrokenJaw be far behind?


34 posted on 08/24/2014 8:34:31 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: IncPen

But, you mean that Cornel West has finally admitted what anyone with at least an ounce of intelligence has long known, namely that West is little more than a dupe and a fool?

Say it ain’t so!


35 posted on 08/24/2014 8:55:15 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: NormsRevenge
Can Spike Jones, Van Jones and Tom BrokenJaw be far behind?

The crease is off the pant.

36 posted on 08/24/2014 9:09:00 AM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Bump post 26

Still, most grovelling lickspittles—such as Salon writers—don’t possess the intelligence to understand your post but they do see that the object of their adoration did not care when one of their own kind was beheaded.


37 posted on 08/24/2014 11:03:52 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: IncPen

Progressivism itself is, before anything else, counterfeit.


38 posted on 08/24/2014 11:08:43 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Counterfeit is the essence of progressivism. And by the way—progressivism is the essence of counterfeit.

Look at Alinsky’s book dedication, for starters.


39 posted on 08/24/2014 11:11:17 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: GOPJ
Obama never said he was "Lincoln'

So I guess I just imagined his inaugural train ride from Springfield to Washington?

From Wikipedia: First inauguration of Barack Obama - Train ride: Commemorating Lincoln


On January 17, 2009, Obama hosted a whistle stop train tour in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth year of Abraham Lincoln. Obama reenacted the final part of Lincoln's 1861 train tour from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C. to capture the mood of the 1861 Springfield to Washington train tour traveled by Lincoln to his own inauguration. For his train ride to the nation's capital, Obama rode in the Georgia 300, a vintage railroad car used by past presidents and the same one he used for touring Pennsylvania during his presidential primary campaign.

Maybe I imagined Obama being sworn in twice using Lincoln's inaugural Bible?

From The Washington Times (January 10, 2013) - Obama to use Lincoln Bible at 2013 inauguration


President Obama says he never compares himself to Abraham Lincoln, but he’ll be sworn in again with President Lincoln’s Bible at his inauguration on Jan. 21.

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Asked during the “fiscal cliff” negotiations if it was his “Lincoln moment” to work out a compromise, Mr. Obama said he doesn’t compare himself to Lincoln. But there are numerous examples during his presidency of Mr. Obama evoking imagery of Lincoln.

The Lincoln Bible, part of the collection of the Library of Congress, was used at the swearing-in of Lincoln in 1861.

Mr. Obama also used it at his first inauguration in 2009.


-PJ

40 posted on 08/24/2014 11:29:19 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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