Posted on 11/13/2012 7:52:58 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Despite some commentators’ giddy excitement about President Barack Obama’s reelection, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West took a different stand, calling out the president for some of the shortcomings of his administration and his reelection campaign on the issue of poverty. Of course, Smiley and West have their own critics, in part due to West’s occasional propensity to use highly charged language, such as his 2010 contention that Obama’s policies led to racist effects.
Speaking on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! show, Smiley and West tore into the president. Calling Obama “a Rockefeller Republican in blackface,” West charged “that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion—poverty, trade unions being pushed against the wall dealing with stagnating and declining wages when profits are still up and the one percent are doing very well, no talk about drones dropping bombs on innocent people. So we end up with such a narrow, truncated political discourse, as the major problems—ecological catastrophe, climate change, global warming.”
West didn’t let up: “Richard Nixon is to the left of him on healthcare. Richard Nixon is to the left of him on guaranteed income. And the same policies in terms of imperial foreign policy is at work.” Calling the president’s use of unmanned drones to attack al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in other countries “war crimes,” West went on to describe Obama’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act as “crypto-fascist.”
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I suggest that Freepers dust off that stack of old John Birch Society literature in order to find out exactly what a “Rockefeller Republican” is. And while you are at it, Google these terms- “oligarchy”, “aristocracy”, “fascism”, “republicanism”, “synarchy”, “Nazi 5th column in the US during the 1930’s”. One day we may actually figure out who really is America’s chief enemy and his name ain’t Karl Marx.
What the hell are you talking about? That is wrong in so many ways.
Except for that guy on “Batman”, of course.
- America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
- Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
- They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
- Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
- The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
- They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
oh shoot, I got him mixed up with someone else my mistake sorry
Who is West? What is his ideology? He is a black militant in the 1960s mode.
To people of West's ideology, Nelson Rockefeller is the fascist who put down the people's rebellion in Attica. To West, he is the right wing ideologue who passed the Rockefeller drug laws, which were a grand conspiracy against the black community. To West, he is the racist who presided over New York's cooperation with COINTELPRO - yet another white supremacist plot.
In the hate literature of the 1960s black left, Rockefeller figures much more prominently in their demonology than Reagan ever did.
He’s right about the signing of the NDAA, anyway. Sometimes they are so far left they meet us coming the other way.
In the hate literature of the 1960s black left, Rockefeller figures much more prominently in their demonology than Reagan ever did.
Okay. Rockefeller is also short-hand for "rich White guy." Maybe there's also a dig at Colin Powell here.
oh shoot, I got him mixed up with someone else my mistake sorry
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