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News & Notes: West says Obama abandoned Democratic positions

“I think that he has aligned himself with forces that promote the abandonment of poor people and the neglect of working people,” West said, according to The Princeton Packet. “I would characterize Obama as a charismatic version of American exceptionalism with a Keynesian neo-liberalism at home and a liberal neoconservatism abroad, which is to say, he is the friendly face of the American empire abroad and internally he is a centrist now leaning to the right.”

Despite Obama’s early adoption of Democratic rhetoric, the president is now “sadly becoming a pawn of big finance and a puppet of big business,” West said.

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