Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHow Cornel West hurts Bernie Sanders~ This is from Jan 22.. Let's see how much came true..
Many of us said this very thing last year when Cornel West started campaigning with Bernie.. and here we are..
By Jonathan Capehart
Much has been written about the Vermont independents appeal to black voters and whether he can pry them away from Hillary Clinton. And all I can say is good luck with that. I and plenty of other African Americans wont soon forget the deranged ravings of the revered Ivy League professor against President Obama.
I think most of us know the racist rantings of Cornel West slung at the President so I won't repost them from the article.. but, they're @ the link if you need to see them. So, to continue.. I did Not know this about "Killer Mike"..
Okay.. I will post this here..
Oh, so not only does cornel hurl gratuitously ugly insults @ our President but he wants to "slap him", too.. And, he goes on and ******* on.. @ the link..
Ta Nehisi Coates nailed what was and remains wrong with Sanderss approach. Using the senators opposition to reparations as a trampoline, the writer for the Atlantic challenges Sanderss revolutionary mien. He writes that some of Sanderss positions address black people not so much as a class specifically injured by white supremacy, but rather, as a group which magically suffers from disproportionate poverty. Then he adds this: Jim Crow and its legacy were not merely problems of disproportionate poverty. Why should black voters support a candidate who does not recognize this?
The rest of the article's caption. "Which leads me to Hillary"..
President Obama speaks as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)
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"Because of her loyalty to the president, lasting affection among African Americans for her husband and his presidency, not to mention her own assiduous efforts to earn the black vote with realistic plans, I expect Hillary Clinton to blunt whatever impact Cornel West and Killer Mike might have for Sanders".
Much More~https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/01/22/how-cornel-west-hurts-bernie-sanders/?postshare=1591453489950529&tid=ss_tw
I saw and appreciate that this was posted in the AA Group on the 22nd but I'm still going to post it here in Hill's Group because it is very much about her, too.
UPDATE: I never did post this.. but just ran across it again and decided.. no time like the present.
to Jonathan Capehart who knew exactly what he was talking about.
[font color=blue]Hillary's Group~Mahalo~[/font]
The latest from cornel west.. no surprise from me.
Justin Wolfers Retweeted Cornel West
Something has happened to Cornel West.
Justin Wolfers added,
Cornel West @CornelWest Brother Bernie and Brother Trump are authentic human beings in stark contrast to their donor-driven opponents.
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https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers
Alycee ??@jazziz2
Nothing's "happened" 2 @CornelWest. Three bigtime grifters. Game respects game! https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/734916656422477824
4:19 AM - 24 May 2016
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/05/24/early-bird-chat-vietnan-version/
Cha
(297,378 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,980 posts)To capture any idiocy he pushes as well as any non involvement.
Cha
(297,378 posts)trust him?
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)I think he brings him on there to expand his vocabulary.
Cha
(297,378 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Cha
(297,378 posts)The Op is kinda long.. mahalo for reading until the end.
Like your sig line.
sheshe2
(83,815 posts)Thanks for bring it here, Cha! Great read.
Cha
(297,378 posts)Something has happened to Cornel West.
Justin Wolfers added,
Cornel West @CornelWest Brother Bernie and Brother Trump are authentic human beings in stark contrast to their donor-driven opponents.
Retweets 33Likes 72
https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers
Alycee ??@jazziz2
Nothing's "happened" 2 @CornelWest. Three bigtime grifters. Game respects game! https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/734916656422477824
4:19 AM - 24 May 2016
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Thank you, she~
I am just appalled. It will be over very soon, Cha.
sarae
(3,284 posts)Bernie Panders?
Did you ever see that tweet BS sent out, over a month ago, where he said:
"As president, I would formally apologize for our country's deplorable practice of slavery."
Not only is it a really EASY and EMPTY promise for him to make, it also kinda sounds like he's implying, "unlike our CURRENT president". Am I alone in seeing this as a really obnoxious pandering gesture??
BS's tweet: https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/718202901366185985
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Cha
(297,378 posts)up to be.. as we know.
trump isn't 'cause he's a Billionaire or so he says.
But, to say trump or even burnie are "authentic" is BS fiction.
sarae
(3,284 posts)Cornel West and Bernie Sanders both seem to be all about themselves. I think it's so disrespectful of BS to name Cornel West to the DNC platform committee, after the crap he's said about the President.
West seems like a child who will never get over the fact that he wasn't invited to the Inauguration. His comment about "Brother Trump and Brother Bernie" being authentic human beings is NAUSEATING. He's so petty. I don't even think he's sincere about calling Trump "authentic" it just seems like another way for him to be passive aggressive towards Obama and Hillary.
Every week that goes by, BS does something even more annoying than the week before. What's he gonna do next?!
Cha
(297,378 posts)on an important committee for the Dem Platform.. someone who thinks "trump is authentic".. which part? The racist shite?
Obama didn't invite him to the inauguration but BS got him to the DNC on the platform no less. I hear Elijah Cummings is the head of it or something.. I can't imagine he thinks much of cornel.
My wish is for cornel to be humiliated like he tried to do to President Obama.. that would be Karma with Just Desserts.
BS's latest is ..
The Hill
✔ ??@thehill
JUST IN: Sanders: Democratic primary is not a "monarchy" http://hill.cm/BiV8E7O
5:03 AM - 24 May 2016
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/05/25/president-obamas-wonderful-day-in-ho-chi-minh-city/
Hell right burnie.. that's why you're the hell not going to get coronated.
Mahalo, sarae~
Koinos
(2,792 posts)I thought that royalty was decided by birth, whereas winners of primaries are decided by popular votes.
Bernie is sounding more and more confused. He is losing because he has fewer votes. What about that does he not understand?
Cha
(297,378 posts)burnie got his talking points mixed up..
He's the one who wants to be anointed even though he didn't get the votes or the delegates.
I can imagine how the Congress People and Dem Senators have had it up to HERE with him.
He can't quite wrap his head around the fact that he lost to a woman and especially "that woman".
to Hillary, Koinos~
He has a lot of nerve talking about "the anointed one". If BS really cares about the "democratic process", why isn't he talking about how undemocratic caucuses are?
sarae
(3,284 posts)For him to go on about "billionaires buying the election" when he's the one trying to steal the nomination...there are no words. The man seems to have completely lost it.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)Otherwise, the so-called "voters" are uninformed and unenlightened, and their votes should be overridden by some sort of extraordinary superdelegate decree.
This is despotism he is advocating and has nothing to do with democratic process. He is not a democratic "socialist"; he is an authoritarian "socialist." His dream is that he and his socialist disciples should compel everyone else to believe and act according to his ideology, even if those unwilling others should happen to constitute a majority.
What he is calling for is a socialist aristocracy. He has contempt for the majority who do not accept him. These are the same anti-social tendencies he has displayed all through his life and in his career in the senate. That's why he has few friends among his senate colleagues. They simply do not like the way he talks down to everyone he disagrees with.
Those same relationship problems with fellow senators are the reason they are supporting Hillary Clinton and not Bernie Sanders. They know that Hillary has the social skills required to get along with others, including Congressional Democrats and world leaders. Hillary knows how to work well with others. Bernie never acquired that human skill.
A socialist loner who thinks he is right and everyone who disagrees with him is wrong, is not a suitable candidate for the presidency of the United States.
Even if many of his "positions" happen to be right, his very contempt for democratic methods for achieving those ends or ideals vitiates his approach and contradicts the meaning of being president.
✔ ??@thehill
JUST IN: Sanders: Democratic primary is not a "monarchy" http://hill.cm/BiV8E7O
5:03 AM - 24 May 2016
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/05/25/president-obamas-wonderful-day-in-ho-chi-minh-city/
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)"Brother Bernie and Brother Trump" Can he get any more obvious in his Hillary hatred?
Cha
(297,378 posts)he think is going to be okay with him calling trump "authentic" and lumping him with BS?
LOL.. I have to keep going back to the OP to remember what cornel called him.. I just can't remember "authentic" as a description for DT.
"Brother trump" from cornel west.. more proof he lost it irrevocably when President Obama didn't invited him to his Inauguration.
Mahalo, Riff~
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Those two were more like repellents as surrogates! They just confirmed: " ah, no!"
Cha
(297,378 posts)West's egregious, vicious, racist insults towards our popular, successful President had only made African Americans not think much of cornel west anymore.
And, all because Obama didn't invite him to his Inauguration in 2008.. long time to carry a grudge.. but hey now he's calling trump "authentic" like burnie.. That's actually not such a compliment. lol
Mahalo, HS~
I am in an unbelievably foul mood after my foray into GDP.
Cha
(297,378 posts)Kicking!
Hope you're in a better mood now!
Cornie is like those pills they used to give kids to make their cavities show up. If someone finds Brother West's views palatable they are probably not the progressives they advertise themselves as and that goes double for Amy Goodman of Democracy Now who predictably is a Sanders surrogate.
Cha
(297,378 posts)not acceptable.
Just as the African Americans who decided BS wasn't for them because he got corn as a surrogate.
p.s. glad BS is so tone deaf.
Mahalo, urc~
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)as far as I'm concerning he is an ultra leftist zealot
Cha
(297,378 posts)from sitting on any Democratic committee @ the convention.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)his hate is undeniable....same kind as sanders....frustrated old men striking out from all the rejection they have endurred
unless west is removed....I will not send DNC any funds, they will go down ballot democrats only....thats what I been writing on all the DNC mailers when I return them....
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Cha
(297,378 posts)for keeping it going..