Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/17/2011 10:02 PM, Michael F wrote:
> Cornell West, a moral philosopher?  A moral Marxist exists out there?
> I heard the man speak when I was in college 10 years ago at the state
> university that I attended and I was lured in, enamored and angry!,
> hell, I went out and read everything available at the local Barnes and
> Nobles(Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and the Cornell West Reader).
> It was funny, everyone he referenced were recently-distanced from the
> academy, and by today's standards, antiquated Marxists from Europe:
> ideologues, which appear and disappear within 40 or 50 years.  Chomsky
> and West are of similar sophistic natures.  They are celebrities, not
> philosophers.  Amazing how they turn their back on Obama.  They are
> typical of the "revolutionaries" that particular(not all) institutions
> and departments are creating.  I actually prefer Ward Churchill to the
> turn-coats!  Ward could put on a show and his histrionics are much
> more entertaining and humorous than West's preaching/ hip-hop act and
> Noam's solemn delivery.

What boggles the mind is how West could ever have thought Obama was in 
sync with him and was going to appoint him Secretary of State or something.

It might have been O's affiliation with that Trinity United Church of 
Christ in Chicago and its fire eating pastor, but Obama eschewed that 
fairly early on.

West must have been very piqued when Obama gave Larry Summers the 
important job.  Summers as President of Harvard had taken West so 
unceremoniously to the woodshed over West's failure to produce any 
academic scholarship, which is what professors are supposed to do. At 
least professors without an adoring entourage like West seems to have 
built up for himself.

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> Mike
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Joseph Tracy<brook7 at sover.net>  wrote:
>> Here is a more comprehensive critique of Obama and the Democrats by Cornel
>> West, who knows Obama well.
>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-1#comment-1831028
>>
>> On May 17, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Henry M wrote:
>>
>> Few people in the world will ever read Chomsky's comments (only a very small
>> percentage of the country read well enough to understand his academic
>> prose).  Some number more than those few will listen to Amy Goodman's
>> similarly provacative but impracticle shows.  Nader and Moore at least get
>> their divisive messages out to the people.
>>
>> I think the best couse for the forseeable future is for people to hear and
>> read the stalking-horse American left, but to come back to supporting the
>> Dems as the only practical bulwark agains a very long, dark theocratic
>> totalitarian era.
>>
>> AsB4,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Mu
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>>