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In reply to the discussion: Re: Cornel West [View all]Whisp
(24,096 posts)41. West said that around the time everyone was piling on the President
and the likes of Jane Hamsher and those of her kind ruled most of the topics on DU, how Obama was a caver, do nothing President that sold us all out to Wall Street and deliberately and solo passed on the Public Option. Even the pundits that largely support the President now (msnbc) had their piece of him because it was the fashionable and easier thing to do. I remember.
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You missed his rant on his seats for the Inauguration? Epic fail for him. nt
msanthrope
Sep 2012
#23
Cornell West? CORNEL. Pet peeve of mine, and no thread on him fails to deliver. nt
msanthrope
Sep 2012
#22
calling the President a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet
Whisp
Sep 2012
#18
If I had said that very same thing, I would have rightly been called a racist.
Ikonoklast
Sep 2012
#32
We seem to have very few thinkers in our society, but Dr. West is one of them.
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#27