Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post.com and the author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream, discusses whether or not President Obama has betrayed his base. Then, later in the show, Dr. Cornel West, University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University; co-host of Smiley & West; and author of Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir, weighs in on the topic. Jami Floyd, broadcast journalist, legal analyst for cable and network news, and blogger at It's A Free Country, chimes in with her post on whether Obama abandoned his base.
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), and she basically said that now is not the time to just live a decent life, as Stewart was asking or even alluding to. She basically said that America is at a turning point, and that everybody has to rally (literally, on the streets); she's arranging buses everyone around the country that needs and wants a lift, and she's really advocating a call to arms, basically. We'll see what happens