He's not right about Obama. He's wrong about Obama. He's correct about larger issues over the years past. He's an ultra-leftist , demanding too much from Obama. And he's ignoring the fascist danger the Republicans have become. When West came to Detroit three years ago or so , he was blaming Obama for not doing anything about poverty in Detroit , and failed to say that the REPUBLICANS in the STATE , Snake Snyder and the rest, had just cut state welfare ! West does not base his criticisms of Obama on a realistic idea of how the party system works in government, and how the Congress is necessary to do anything big in the federal government. He's being a left demagogue.
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The political spectrum has been shifted way to the right over the last 30 years. Obama is a liberal Republican sort of from 40 years ago. Obama is a progressive Democrat for the political spectrum of 2014. The coalition that elected and re-elected him is what's important. His candidacy and presidency have halted the decades long shift to the right. And we are on the verge of starting to move things left if we can crack the Republicans over the head in November.
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John Halle Adolph Reed had him pegged in 1996: "In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices: one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable credentials and vacuous to repressive neolib...See More
Charles Brown This is ultra-leftism. I call it Peter Pan Politics: Never Never Land; See Lenin's _Leftwing Communism: an Infantile Disorder_. When West was on a talk radio show in Detroit 4 years ago, I criticized him for this ultra-left stance on Obama. He came to ...See More
Earle Horton Anyone who applied for mortgage relief knows, this president is fake. Also, where's my 125mpg car?
Larry Artman West wanted a pony and he didn't get one. If anything, Obama is a moderate Republican...- John Halle Black Agenda Report refers to him as "the more effective evil". Not an unreasonable position: http://www.blackagendareport.com/.../why-barack-obama...
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We ask our readers to kindly forgive the temporary absence of our menus and pict... See More - Charles Brown The political spectrum has been shifted way to the right over the last 30 years. Obama is a liberal Republican sort of from 40 years ago. Obama is a progressive Democrat for the political spectrum of 2014. The coalition that elected and re-elected him is what's important. His candidacy and presidency have halted the decades long shift to the right. And we are on the verge of starting to move things left if we can crack the Republicans over the head in November.
Jeri Henson Dies I like Cornel Cornell West. And I always will. And, yes, Obama was raised by his Republican grandparents. And it stuck.- John Halle West is wrong that Obama "posed as a progressive". As I wrote here, in 2008 "he ran a fairly honest campaign". http://www.counterpunch.org/.../whither-progressive.../
- John Halle He's also wrong that "everyone was saying at the time" that he "could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility." Some of us got it right. See http://asitoughttobe.com/2010/03/04/politics/
Louis M. Kyriakoudes Obama's obeisance to Wall Street is a fact could be known by anyone who read the newpapers in January, 2009. When I read that Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner would be serving in the administration, I thought to myself, "great, we just elected Herbert Hoover and Ogden Mills will be running treasury."- Michael Brown Back when he was elected to the Senate in 2004, the black intelligensia and leadership class looked at him as a curiosity who would likely become a good role model for their young people but would unlikely progress beyond the Senate. It was mainly white liberals who looked upon him as a messiah.
- Bruce Bartlett One reason I voted for Obama in 2008 is because he was so conservative. http://www.washingtonpost.com/.../06/25/AR2008062501942.html
- Charles Brown That's correct, Councilperson John Halle. Any true and honest leftist or progressive knew that Obama did not run as progressive. John Edwards was to the left of Obama, though most Democrats were not progressive coming out of the Clinton DP. My brother and I were supporting Edwards. Those leftists who claimed, as West does , that Obama ran as a progressive and betrayed it, are lying. West is not telling the truth about Obama.
- Charles Brown Recall Obama's speech on race. It was very insightful , and importantly expressed understanding of the mass white point of view. But it wasn't a progressive position. Recall Obama's split with his Reverend , who had an anti-imperialist, left , progressive view of US foreign policy. That was another indication Obama was not running as a leftist.
- Jeri Henson Dies My favorite question and answer from the article:
You remember that enthusiasm in 2008. I’m from Kansas City. He came and spoke in Kansas City and 75,000 people came to see him.
Oh yeah. Well we know there were moments in Portland, Oregon, there were moments in Seattle. He had the country in the palm of his hand in terms of progressive possibilities. - Bruce Bartlett I've told people for yeas that there is a book to be written about Obama's conservatism.
- Louis M. Kyriakoudes The lost opportunity in the Obama administration was the opportunity of restraining the power of the finance industry. It contributes nothing to economic efficiency or growth, and holds a terrifically deadly Sword of Damocles over the American economy....See More
Stacy Fuller I don't think any president is true to either side of the political spectrum and why would they?- Michael Brown Looking back at his address to the Democratic convention from 2004, it comes across as incredibly naive and foolish. I was never really impressed with it to begin with.
- Charles Brown Those leftists who claimed, as West does , that Obama ran as a progressive and betrayed it, are lying. West is not telling the truth about Obama.///////// And I've been dealing with this for 6 years "debating" my comrades on my left email lists. False equivalency of the Democratic and Republican Parties in this period is the main fallacy of the left today, and it ruins their political analysis. West, Black Agenda and the rest are worthless, even fifth columnists for the rightwing, which is dangerous , given the fascist tendencies of today's Republican Party.
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