ANGELA DAVIS: Again, I would return to the election of Barack Obama. Barack Obama was elected despite that kind of a lobby, despite the power of money. And so, we have to continue the campaign for a better world, drawing upon all of our resources.
It should be pointed out that Angela Davis is a member of an organization that was very instrumental in organizing "Progressives for Obama" along with the poster boy for the Israeli killing machine, Tom Hayden and the biggest bully on the "left," Carl Davidson who viciously attacks everyone and anyone who so much as asks the question: Does Obama work for Wall Street or Main Street? By-the-way, Tim Wise is also a member of the "Progressives for Obama."
Angela Davis should be challenged for the ridiculous and totally false claims she is making about Barack Obama. She and her outfit the Committees of Correspondence for Peace and Socialism like to make the claim that they helped to elect Barack Obama when in fact their role was to intentionally confuse people and lead people to believe that Barack Obama, if not actually liberal or progressive, the he at least "leaned" in this direction... obviously, this was a completely wrong assessment, and a totally dishonest assessment because I had sent Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Tom Hayden and Danny Glover all a copy of the essay Barack Obama had written in Foreign Affairs Magazine in 2007... except for Danny Glover, each of them responded back to me with a litany of insults obviously intended to try to bully and badger me into stop circulating this Obama essay with the very short and simple question:
"After reading this essay written by Barack Obama for the publication of the Council on Foreign Relations' magazine, Foreign Affairs Magazine, do you believe Barack Obama is liberal, progressive or left and do you really believe Barack Obama is going to work for anyone other than Wall Street and the merchants of death and destruction--- Wall Street's military-financial-industrial complex?"
In fact, what Angela Davis refuses to discuss is an organization and outfit called:
ALEC...
http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=History&Template=%2FCM%2FHTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13643
Members of ALEC contributed millions of dollars to Barack Obama's campaign... anyone can check out this organization's website. This outfit is one of the principle lobbyists for the prison-industrial complex. I posted this information to Angela Davis' FaceBook page and after a couple days it was deleted by the administrators.
I am still trying to figure out how it is that anyone, Angela Davis or anyone else, can make the claim that Barack Obama was elected as a result of "Again, I would return to the election of Barack Obama. Barack Obama was elected despite that kind of a lobby, despite the power of money. And so, we have to continue the campaign for a better world, drawing upon all of our resources."
In fact, Barack Obama never would have been elected president unless big Wall Street money purchasing the best Madison Avenue and Hollywood could provide was backing him. In fact, Homer Simpson could have been elected to the presidency with this kind of backing from Wall Street.
Tim Wise is dishonest in failing to state that he is a member of the Progressives for Obama as he defends Angela Davis' pathetically dishonest remarks about Obama as quoted above.
Everyone should read what Angela Davis had to say here, and instead of trying to intimidate and bully people like Angela Davis' colleague Tim Wise has done here towards people who raise questions... these questions should be welcomed and completely discussed because Obama is either going to have to be "primaried out," forced to resign in shame as the liar and Elmer Gantry that he is--- not unlike Richard Nixon, or we are going to have to run a ticket--- a united liberal-progressive-left ticket outside of the two-party system--- what Angela Davis, when she was campaigning to run for Vice-president on the CPUSA ticket called "the two-party trap... a trap she has apparently been caught up in herself as she so cavalierly rattles off the issues with Barack Obama with which see claims to disagree. Where are those issues upon which see sought the Vice-presidency when she ran on the Communist Party USA ticket with Gus Hall? Certainly not in the interview below---
AMY GOODMAN: Angela Davis, I wanted to ask you about building a new world and ask you about your thoughts on the eve of the election of President Obama, what you were thinking, the hopes you had at the time, and now, two years later, where we stand today. I mean, November 4th, 2008, this remarkable moment, an African American man elected in a land with the legacy of slavery, you know, the land of Frederick Douglass. Where we came from then and where we are today, Professor Davis?
ANGELA DAVIS: Well, of course, initially, few people believed that a figure like Barack Obama could ever be elected to the presidency of the United States, and because there were those who persisted, and, you know, largely young people, who helped to build this movement to elect Barack Obama, making use of all of the new technologies of communication. And so, on that day, November 4th, 2008, when Obama was elected, this was a world historical event. People celebrated literally all over the world—in Africa, in Europe, in Asia, in South America, in the Caribbean, in the US. I was in Oakland, and there was literally dancing in the street. I didn’t—I don’t remember any other moment that can compare to that collective euphoria that gripped people all over the world.
Now, here we are two years later, and many people are treating this as if it were business as usual. As a matter of fact, many people are dissatisfied with the Obama administration, because they fail to fulfill all of our dreams. And, you know, one of the points that I frequently make is that we have to beware of our tendency here in this country to look for messiahs and to project our own possible potential power on to others. What really disturbs me is that we have failed. Well, of course, I’m dissatisfied with many of the things that Obama has done. The war in Afghanistan needs to end right now. The healthcare bill could have been much stronger than it turned out to be. There are many issues about which we can be critical of Obama, but at the same time, I think we need to be critical of ourselves for not generating the kind of mass pressure to compel the Obama administration to move in a more progressive direction, remembering that the election was, in large part, primarily the result of just such a mass movement that was created by ordinary people all over the country.
AMY GOODMAN: We have fifteen seconds.
ANGELA DAVIS: Again, I would return to the election of Barack Obama. Barack Obama was elected despite that kind of a lobby, despite the power of money. And so, we have to continue the campaign for a better world, drawing upon all of our resources.
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