{"id":10057,"date":"2011-09-22T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2011-09-22T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:16:29","slug":"cornel-west-leads-liberal-search-for-obama-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10057","title":{"rendered":"Cornel West Leads Liberal Search For Obama Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online community known as the New Progressive Alliance (NPA) is looking for a primary challenger to <strong>President Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>President Obama<\/strong> has to be accountable to his base. The progressive party got him elected,&#8221; said a Brooklyn native who once supported <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> and volunteered as a deputy field organizer during <strong>Pres. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> presidential campaign in North Carolina and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA expects a nominee to fully support the organization&#8217;s comprehensive progressive platform ratified in August. Platform tenets include full employment at a living wage, environmental sustainability, social welfare and fair trade.<\/p>\n<p>And while the NPA is trying to make headway, one of its members is also rallying for a similar cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Cornel West<\/strong> has teamed with consumer advocate <strong>Ralph Nader<\/strong> to bring progressive ideals to the forefront with a challenger to face <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>.<strong> West<\/strong> and <strong>Nader<\/strong> are leading a group of liberals and academics, seeking candidates to debate <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> on key issues.<\/p>\n<p>Though <strong>Dr. West<\/strong> is on the steering committee of the NPA, the alliance&#8217;s facilitator<strong> Anthony Noel<\/strong> does not view his collaboration with <strong>Nader<\/strong> as any sort of threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online community known as the New Progressive Alliance (NPA) is looking for a primary challenger to President Obama. &#8220;President Obama has to be accountable to his base. The progressive party got him elected,&#8221; said a Brooklyn native who once supported Pres. Obama and volunteered as a deputy field organizer during Pres. Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}