Don't Believe the Bullshit, Biden Wasn't a 'Great President': CORNEL WEST

Candidate says Biden will go down in history as the enabler of the Gaza genocide

Cornel West, the public intellectual and Third-Party candidate for president, brushed off claims by Democrats that President Joe Biden was somehow a great leader on Sunday after the president announced he would not seek reelection after his disastrous debate.

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“As I predicted last year, brother Biden has had his LBJ moment and he is now out of the race! Despite the lies of his fellow Democrats, he was not a great or excellent president,” West posted on X. “He was first and foremost an enabler of genocide in Gaza, with over 15,000 Palestinian children murdered! The same cold-hearted rich donors will now shift to sister Harris or someone else with the same policies that neglect poor and working people! We deserve better than Trump’s neofascist project and the Democratic Party’s militaristic agenda!”

Biden announced that he will end his campaign for president.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve you as president,” Biden said in a statement. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection calm I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.”

Biden endorsed Harris in a subsequent post on X.

"My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President," Biden posted. "And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year."

Biden’s debate set off alarm bells in the media and the Democratic Party.

The New York Times’s editorial board called for the president to step aside in 2024.

The paper wrote:

The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to Mr. Trump’s provocations. He struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence.

Maureen Dowd, the paper’s columnist, wrote in Sunday’s issue: The race for the Oval today is between two delusional, selfish, stubborn old guys, and that’s a depressing state of affairs.

West announced his candidacy on Twitter in 2023 and has been ignored by the war-whore media.

He said he is “running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself—fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education, and living wages for all!”

Democracy Now! called West an “iconic academic and social critic.” The report noted that he’s running as a Third-Party candidate for the People’s Party, which has been identified as a “progressive alternative to the two major parties.” The report said the idea grew out of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that the two-party system now is a major impediment for the empowerment of poor and working people,” he told Amy Goodman, the Democracy Now! host. 

The two spoke about the U.S. intervention in Ukraine. Goodman noted that West told The New Yorker in March 2022 that there must be an effort to stop the war.

He mentioned how the U.S. assured Moscow that NATO would not expand “one inch,” yet, in the following decades, 14 of the satellite countries of the Soviet Union are part of NATO, “that there’s missiles right on the borders and boundaries of the Russian empire.”