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Cornell West's War on President Obama - Princeton professor Cornel West has lashed out at President Obama yet again. This go ‘round West comments on the president seeking congressional approval to invade Syria. West has made headlines over the course of Obama’s tenure while blasting the president on foreign policy, his stance on race in America, and more. A look at West’s top quotes on the Obama administration. — Dominique Zonyéé(Photos: Richard Alan Hannon/Getty Images; Sergey Guneev/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)

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Obama Makes History, West Supports 2008 Campaign - Cornel West had high hopes for President Obama when he was elected president in November 2008. In an opinion piece for U.S. News, West outlined the monumental election praising Obama, and also put his future into prospective. He wrote, “We now have an American president-elect of vision, courage, and maturity who also is black.”(Photo: Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images)

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“Obama Obsessed With Being on Mount Rushmore” - Remember the President Obama face on Mount Rushmore rumor?  Cornel West does.  “I think at this point he’s obsessed with being on Mount Rushmore, he wants to be a great figure in the pantheon of American presidents," West told the Financial Times in May 2012.(Photo: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

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"Rockefeller Republican in Blackface” - West made headlines in November 2012 while appearing on Democracy Now. “I’m glad there was not a right-wing takeover, but we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface,” he said.(Photo: Courtesy of C-Span)

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“Al Sharpton Is Obama's House Negro - Following the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington in August, West had nothing good to say about Al Sharpton, whose National Action Network was instrumental in the anniversary events. West said the events were "the coronation of the bonafide house negro of the Barack Obama plantation, our dear brother Al Sharpton."(Photo: Courtesy of Democracy Now)

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“Obama Is a Global George Zimmerman” - When Trayvon Martin was killed, the nation was at odds.  West condemned Obama’s response on the tragedy, once again blasting the Obama administration’s foreign policies.  “President Obama is a global George Zimmerman because he tries to rationalize the killing of innocent children, 221 so far, in the name of self-defense,” West said on Democracy Now in July.(Photo: Courtesy of Democracy Now)

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Obama’s "New Jim Crow" - After George Zimmerman’s acquittal shocked the nation in July, President Obama addressed the nation, and Cornel West attacked Obama. Obama compared himself to Trayvon, but West bashed the president’s response telling Democracy Now, “Obama hasn’t said a word until now — five years in office and can’t say a word about a 'new Jim Crow.'”(Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)

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Obama “The Drone President” - Obama’s use of drones to spy on and attack other nations has been met with controversy by conservatives and liberals. West, of course, was against Obama’s policy when he said, “Bush was the capture-and-torture president. Now we’ve got the targeted killing president, the drone president,” in a Democracy Now interview in July.(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Obama’s Syria Strike Is “Grounds for Impeachment” - West, who has publicly disagreed with the White House’s foreign policies, said on his syndicated radio show Smiley and West on Sunday that if Obama strikes Syria without congressional approval the move would be “dictatorial … and grounds for impeachment.”(Photo: Reuters)