Cornel West Sounds Off on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Brother_West_Living_and_Loving_Out_Loud

Cornel West congratulates President Obama on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, but cautions that the honor comes with tremendous responsibility. "It's going to be hard to be a war president with a Peace Prize," he says.

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In this intimate exploration, one of America's most gifted and provocative public intellectuals peels back the layers of a remarkable life. - Los Angeles Public Library

Cornel West is a philosopher, author, critic, and civil rights activist. His works include The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought, Race Matters, and The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century.

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[318MASTERMIND12]

Peace is the presence of justice

[carlmalmberg]

Great talk. Just for the record (as a Swede) I have to remind you that the peace price is given out by a Norwegian comittee... Swedes are responsible for the even more horrible price in Economy, that even Milton Friedman managed to get his hands on. Than c***smoker.

[RPenta]

Giving Obama the Nobel Peace prize was one of the greatest travesties in history; I am sorry that Dr. West and other "progressives" either could not or did not read the handwriting on the wall about Obama and his corporate shill nobody VP Democratic hack Joe Biden. If Ralph Schoenmen, Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald could read this guy like a book, why could not professor West?

[gurper707]

@TwiztedAnimator got ur back here bro:)

[gurper707]

@thenewmike2012 Hey FAG I HATED Bush and VOTED FOR Obama, and Twizted is right, and your a fuckin LAZY retard. Information with SOURCES is at your fingertips, YOU SLOTH.

Turn off the TV, Shut the fuck up, READ, and Wake the fuck up.

[gurper707]

@UnitedNewThinkers

1)About Osama: DUDE they DUMPED his "BODY" into the OCEAN. It is against the KORAN and ISLAMIC LAW to do a burial at sea except only for certain reasons! Chew on that.

2)And what the hell do you mean he hasn't started any wars? LYBIA. Money and black ops soldiers were sent there from the beginning. And TRYING to end them? C'mon man he hasen't done SHIT yet and I'm pissed because I actually voted for the P.O.S.!

Turn off the TV, and listen to The Corbett Report or something

[TwiztedAnimator]

@UnitedNewThinkers You seem to be under the impression that Obama is somehow "Different" than Bush and that he actually cares about the People of this country. Where have you been the last 2 years? Obama isn't doing anything to help the USA, he is doing everything Bush did and then some. I take it that you are not from the USA, so you have NO business commenting on something you know absolutely nothing about. Your theory about Osama is what you learned from watching TV...

[UnitedNewThinkers]

@TwiztedAnimator hey man, i disagree with you. 1) there were reasons why no pictures were shown of him dead, he had many more followers than his sons and S. Hussein, and a picture with his head blown off would have pissed off too many violent people. 2) Obama hasn't started any wars so far, he's trying to end 2 fucked up ones. So give him some slack, he has to deal with a bunch neo-con ass hole ignorants in congress and the pressure of healing your politically and economically fucked up country

[thenewmike2012]

@TwiztedAnimator Great, next time , THINK before you send a message to someone that isnt talking to you,

[TwiztedAnimator]

@thenewmike2012 Ok, I don't have the patience to deal with ignorant people today. Have fun living in your apathetic and ignorant world. Peace!