Posted on 02/15/2011 5:59:53 AM PST by flowerplough
The Huffington Post reports that Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun won the endorsement of Cornel West this weekend, while also making controversial remarks likening opponent Rahm Emanuel to Adolf Hitler:
The comments came at an event with Cornel West, the Princeton professor and author of such influential works as Race Matters and The Future of the Race. At the event, West spoke of the prerogatives of the next mayor and had some harsh words for another candidate ...
She made a reference to The Producers, the Mel Brooks play-turned-movie satirizing the cult of personality around Adolf Hitler. In it, one of the characters describes Hitler as "kind" and "gentle."
Braun made an analogy to Emanuel, the front-runner in the mayor's race, who is Jewish. The Sun-Times shared her comments about Rahm:
"The joke in it was, he was a kind man, a gentle man," said Braun about comments in Mel Brooks' satirical movie. "We are getting the kind man, the gentle man on television."
Braun has clarified, "I was not comparing him to Adolf Hitler; print that ... I was trying to say ... the kind, gentle concern for the public that is being portrayed in these ads does not square with the record."
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
this endorsement ought to move her from the mid-single digits into the low-single digits
And they both probably think Republicans are racists.
I have friends who have for a long time been strong Allen West supporters. His story relating to his military service is well known and if what I have read is accurate he has my respect.
Carol Moseley Braun is an idiot.
Now, this is coming form Huff Po??
Surely there is a credibility issue here.
In Chicago, it probably doesn’t really matter who gets elected. The Chicago Machine runs the city.
Rahm = Hitler? Shakey.
Rahm as Lorenzo Saint Dubois? Ok, I can buy it...
LOL real shocker there.
LOL...”probably”?
Eh. Cornel West <> Lt. Col. Allen West.
She would be the most entertaining choice. The woman is eat up with stupid and not afraid to show it.
Just curious, there aren’t any normal people in this race, by any chance, are there?
‘The Huffington Post reports that Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun won the endorsement of Cornel West this weekend, while also making controversial remarks likening opponent Rahm Emanuel to Adolf Hitler.’
Proving nothing save that, yes, Cornell West is a racist imbecile, and that the intellectually deficient Braun is, like most Democrats, given to nonsensical bombast.
Sorry, completely missed that. Should have known better, it did not compute.
Remember Chicago is only 42% white, and it was mostly the Chicago vote that sent Carol to the Senate. It is not too unlikely for Carol to win the Dem primary.
I was making the same correlation, but I caught the Princeton prof thing too. Thank God it wasn’t Allen West.
...I was just pointing out how is like Adolph Hitler."
...I was just pointing out how is like Adolf Hitler."
...I was just pointing out how he is like Adolf Hitler."
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