Newly minted Dem Party Platform Voice & Sanders surrogate slams Pres Clinton/endorses Stein

[misterhighwasted]

(((Regina W))) – ?@regwag2003

Cornel West slams President Obama and endorses Jill Stein. Surprised?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/14/barack-obama-us-racism-police-brutality-failed-victims?CMP=share_btn_link …


So much for Sanders' endorsement.
Unity is not their gig.

Cornel is still stumping against the Dem Party & unity necessary to keep us from a Nation under Trump/Pence.
Would THAT make him happier!!

Hello Bush/Gore/Nader
Yuk!!

[Gothmog]

1. Prof. Cornel West is not a democrat and does not care about the Democratic Party

[misterhighwasted]

2. Then what the hell was he doing on the Dem Platform Committee?

Apparently life under Trump/Pence will please C West where Dems couldnt. Because that is what he will get with his new voice.
fking yippee.

[brush]

3. And what the hell was he doing on the Sanders campaign?

Many of us warned them about him when he was first bought onto the campaign.

After the vile things he said about the president, we knew he was not to be trusted.

And here he was on the platform committee and now backs Jill Stein.

That just about amounts to treachery.

[misterhighwasted]

5. Yup. Snake in the grass treachery. Will Nina Turner follow Sanders or West?

Your warnings should have been heeded.

This is precisely why we must hold onto our Super Ds.
West was a nobody until Sanders generously gave him a voice. 3rd Party standing on principle, will f this up & give us Trump/Pence.

[Gothmog]

4. A good question

I am glad that West is not a delegate and I hope that he is not in Philadelphia

[misterhighwasted]

6. If he's speaking against the Dems then he speaking for Trump

That's how it is at this stage of the game.

Jerk.

[riversedge]

7. Grrrrrlllll

[misterhighwasted]

9. West has spent the last 9 months damning Hillary and now he's

continuing his Clinton hate with Bill.

Keep the Dems divided. Isn't that what the whole thing was always about? From the RW playbook..divide & conquer.

[Hortensis]

17. I think you're taking this way too seriously.

Everyone knows what West is. Big deal. Seriously.

[Iliyah]

8. Not a suprise and I'm pretty sure Nina Turner, Susan S. X,

the women that played in "Unstoppable", Danny G., et al., will follow suit.

[still_one]

13. I don't think Nina Turner will follow suit

[still_one]

10. Another person who is essentially voting for Trump. No surprise coming from a Barrack and Hillary

hater. He isn't going to get the attention he craves with this

[zazen]

11. do you agree with his statement below?

I'm really sad to see this community move in lockstep to condemn anyone who criticizes the Party, like we're the USSR and this is Pravda, if in fact that criticism could be legitimate.

West says, "Obama has power right now to enact the recommendations made after Ferguson. Better training, independent civilian oversight boards, body cameras. But he has not used executive orders to push any of these changes through."

You know, it has seemed to me that Cornel West's criticisms have been pretty over the top and that he's got some personal thing about Obama. BUT he has a point that 1) Obama didn't travel to the places where these citizens were shot (to my knowledge) and 2) that if he's got the power West says he has, above, and hasn't exercised it, that's not cool.

But, West could be wrong. Does anyone know whether Obama actually COULD use executive orders to push any of these changes through and if he could, why he hasn't?

Could we actually have a reasoned, respectful conversation about whether this is a legitimate criticism?

[still_one]

12. Since he has decided not to vote for the Democratic nominee, no

[brush]

15. You do know this is the general election season, right? Starting on the 16th of June . . .

we unified behind the nominee.

West is going over to a third party. Not acceptable.

[zazen]

16. what I quoted had to do with Obama's ability to change policing practices now by EO

This has nothing do to with the nominee.

The article quoted (which I excerpted) Cornel West's comment that Obama had the ability now, by executive order, to mandate improved community policing, body cameras, increased accountability, etc, and that West felt he wasn't. All I wanted to know was, does Obama in fact have that authority or was Cornel West misrepresenting it? Since when do we abandon a debate about reducing police violence against unarmed citizens because the person raising the questions supports a third party candidate?

Do we trash whatever other points a person raises because they don't support HRC for President? Are you kidding?

[geek tragedy]

18. to answer your question very, very unlikely that the President has the

unilateral authority to do something like this, and it's unlikely that the federal government has the unilateral authority to force states to do it.

Perhaps Cornel West has listened to too many Donald Trump speeches.

[DemonGoddess]

14. Cornel West doing this is not a surprise n/t