not have my vote. Not in the primaries, anyway. The general would be another story. 🤔

Please don't let anyone play with his DNA, we will have a Jurassic park recap.

Boom!

...Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to suffering.....

Yeah, Cornel West isn't an endorsement that would help convince me to support Sanders.

He also hated our first black President with a passion. Called him the first 'niggerized president'.

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Cornel West on Obama: "The First Black President Has Become The First Niggerized Black President"

.....is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy...."

So he says that about Obama and then he helps ELECT a white supremacist!!!

Then there was this.

Cornel West's Continuing Feud with Barack Obama

"Black puppet" and "black mascot" are in keeping with West's anthology of insults

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According to West himself, President Obama betrayed him on two counts after his election. The first was personal. It all started with a mix-up over inauguration tickets. Obama became increasingly hard to track down after his election but came through with a ticket for West. Tickets for West's mother and brother were nowhere to be found, and the three ended up watching the event from their hotel room. West told Hedges:

What it said to me on a personal level was that brother Barack Obama had no sense of gratitude, no sense of loyalty, no sense of even courtesy, [no] sense of decency, just to say thank you. Is this the kind of manipulative, Machiavellian orientation we ought to get used to? That was on a personal level.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/cornel-wests-continuing-feud-barack-obama/350794/

'The president was hard to track down after his election.' I know, he hadn't been sworn in yet, but could CW put his hurt feelings about tickets aside and see something other than himself? We were on the brink of a great depression. Pretty sure Obama was prepping before he took office.

sigh.

Unreal.

I had no idea we could even do that.

Enjoy.

So why not rec my own posts?

Peace to you.

Has Sarandon's endorsement come in yet?

she's still waiting to see if Nader jumps in

I'm flabbergasted.

I thought the smilie was unnecessary.

Thanks for the update Uncle Joe, appreciate your posts.

Nina Turner as well.

What galls me is their meme of "There is no difference between Clinton and Trump."

That line should be disqualifying for even a job of a dog-catcher as it shows a complete lack of judgment and logical reasoning.

It is not. This is Democratic Underground. It does not recognize or welcome third party voters.

the Democratic Party.

It would be ludicrous at best and politically suicidal for the Democratic Party not to welcome former Republicans, Independents, Green Party etc. etc. so long they adhere to the core Democratic Party principles.

People change and evolve as do circumstances and not everyone gets to the same place at the same time.

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Is far different than welcoming in converts that change and evolve. My Senator Warren proves that point and changed parties in her 40's. She has proven to be a solid Democrat and a true leader in our party. I have met and talked with her, she is awesome.

Democrat.


PS. Thanks I edited my post.

was equivalent to supporting Trump.

ESPECIALLY when that persona was a well-known, vocal supporter of Sanders, who then vocally supported "not Clinton" at a time it was crucial to defeat Trump.

(I will agree that in a non-swing state, a vote for third party was NOT the same as a vote for Trump. It's not the vote here, it's the vocal support that matters, the vocal rejection of Clinton as the anti-Trump that we needed.)

The damage Trump has done is irreparable, at least for a very long time, and in some cases forever.

West's endorsement should be considered poison. He needs to go away. If anything, speak out about how deluded and tragically wrong he was in 2016 (then still shut up about presidential politics, he has no credibility there).

Only one of two people on the ballot in November 2016 could possibly become president. Cornell West campaigned to take votes from one of them. Cornell West hence is either a knowing idiot or a complete damned fool.

political leader left standing that was in tune with his core beliefs.

Since 2016, the Democratic Party has done some serious soul searching in reaching out to the tens of millions of Americans that felt alienated or disenfranchised from the status quo.

West has exhibited very very poor judgement.

I really don’t believe this endorsement is a positive for Senator Sanders this time.

Yikes.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who did not support the Democratic nominee in 2016, and contributed to the horror we have today in the white house, has no business telling OUR Democratic Party what they should do or say.

I see the term you used mentioned all the time - what exactly is your definition of "status quo"? And why is it so bad?

My guess is the answers to your question will be crickets or a long spew of word salad, with a little oligarch thrown in for flavor.

Either one works fine with me.

....he lost all credibility when he said that.

Sanders should renounce Cornell West's endorsement immediately.

about the nation since 9/11 has been true.

The most powerful nation on the planet and we lost it, I believe to a form of national PTSD.

a vote for Trump was a vote for Trump.

BTW, a vote for Nader was also a vote for Bush

vote for Bush was a vote for Bush.

P.S. Except for the Gore voters that marked Pat Buchanan by mistake on the "Where's Waldo" butterfly ballot.

I will never forgive nader Rove funded Nader in 2000 and 2004 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html

his message, one wouldn't do well without the other.

The flame throwing Ivory Tower Republicans won't stand a chance in 2020.

Full of lies, half truths and false smears

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being the corporate media conglomerates by far.

They certainly had the motivation, Al helped to bring about the creation (via legislative means) which most threatened their bottom line and that's what it's all about with them.

A vote for Stein or a writein for Bernie was not only a wasted vote, it helped elect Trump as the poster said.

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Right there. Clear as day.

Spot on.

and now. SMH

I already knew better, but that's a pretty damning tweet for anyone who is still hanging on to some illusion that West has any political credibility.

Cornel West may have some good intentions on racial justice, but day-um he is out of touch.

It was rather clear as day that if West could not have Bernie elected, he was perfectly fine with Trump winning.

Sanders base is going to be really excited whe HA Goodman comes back home to brother Bernie.

Don't forget about Susan.

CORNEL WEST: You can't talk about wealth and inequality, you can't talk about education, you can't talk about massive unemployment and under employment and you can't talk about drones being dropped on people in other parts of the world without talking about white supremacy and its ways in which it operates. It doesn't have to be overt. The president is right about that.

But too many black people are niggerized. I would say the first black president has become the first niggerized black president.

CNN ANCHOR: What do you mean by that?

WEST: A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy. So when many of us said we have to fight against racism, what were we told? 'No, he can't deal with racism because he has other issues, political calculations. He's the president of all America, not just black America.' We know he's president of all America but white supremacy is American as cherry pie.

We're talking about moral issues, spiritual issues, emotional issues. White supremacy has nothing to do with just skin pigmentation, it has to be what kind of person you want to be, what kind of nation we want to be. Democrats and Republicans play on both of those parties in terms of running away from the vicious legacy of white supremacy until it hits us hard. Thank God for Ferguson. Thank God for the young folk of all colors. Thank God for Staten Island and fighting there. Thank God in Baltimore, now the precious folk in Charleston.



https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/22/cornel_west_on_obama_the_first_black_president_has_become_the_first_niggerized_black_president.html

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I have listened to the guy, he is one of the most clueless people that I can imagine, he just covers up the foolishness with words.

....the endorsement by a man who spent eight years insulting President Barack Obama every chance he got and then wound up endorsing and voting for Jill Stein in the 2016 election is something to crow about.

What exactly are Cornell West's credentials anyway?

Deafening silence. No problem, we all get it.

One of many. He’s damn sure no Michael Eric Dyson, who has been a rival of West’s for some time, and who is an insightful and eloquent intellectual.

His vote helped to put Trump in office.

I think we can trust Bernie the Most to bring America back to the people. He's been an activist for many years and has always stuck to his guns. They had to drag him out of the civil rights movement back in '63. Other Dems are running as progressives as well. I like them too, but I think out of the Group Bernie is the most immune to being bought out by Wall Street and Corporate Lobbyists.

Welcome to DU!

walking out after all the fuss was made to accommodate Bernie supporters on the same committee.

Can't say I have much respect for a guy like him.

I have ZERO respect for anyone like him who supported and voted for Jill Fucking Stein. That was a vote that helped to benefit Trump and Russia.

He's as contemptible as Susan Fucking Sarandon for her supporting and voting for of Jill Fucking Stein.

He's as contemptible as Roger Fucking Moore for his supporting and voting for Ralph Fucking Nader.

Fuck him!

a role in Trump's contamination of the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Hillary=Trump" was a colossal lie they all pushed, knowing full well it was a LIE. A lie that will cause permanent damage to our nation for decades.

Unforgivable.