Cornel West Shockingly Says President Obama is “a Rockefeller Republican in blackface”

In a recent television appearance, Princeton University Professor Cornel West didn’t hold back his thoughts on the election and President Barack Obama.

On “Democracy Now with Amy Goodman,” Cornel West criticized Obama’s election campaign, specifically on the billions that was spent.

Cornel West also claimed Obama avoided discussing key issues like poverty and the use of drones on innocent people.

Read the excerpt:

I think 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 1 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. So it’s very sad. I mean, I’m glad there was not a right-wing takeover, but we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, with Barack Obama, so that our struggle with regard to poverty intensifies.

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