Harry Belafonte Says President Obama & "Mission" Failed Because He "Lacks Moral Courage and Vision"

"Day, me say day oh, daylight come and me wan go home....," Harry Belafonte belted out decades ago, in his signature song. He has never been shy about letting his true feelings be known. This time he said that  President Barack Obama and his "mission" have failed because of a lack of moral courage and vision.

The president is "not a stand-alone," Belafonte said Thursday. Regarding the debt-ceiling crisis, Belafonte said he would ask Congress, the president and other U.S. institutions of power "what happened to moral truth" and moral courage.

Well, if that's not a smackdown to our political leaders, then I don't know what is. Harry Belafonte is a civil rights icon in his own rights. He knows a thing or two about compromising and working together, which it is clear our elected officials don't have the will to do.

Belafonte made his remarks to the Television Critics Association during a discussion of "Sing Your Song," an upcoming documentary about him set to air this fall on HBO.