Washington Post: "How Cornel West Hurts Bernie Sanders"

[Empowerer]

9. Funny that you say HRC's surrogates are irrelevant - and then you light into them, so they must

not be all that irrelevant . . .

It's also funny that you suggest Cuomo was out of line, but find Cornel West "interesting and entertaining."

FYI, Cornel West isn't keeping African Americans from Sanders. But he's not doing anything to draw them in. But for some reason, some white liberals are so enamored of him they haven't figured out that most black folks think that Cornel West is just a step away from being a buffoon. And, unlike surrogates such as Brock and Cuomo, who aren't expected to appeal to a particular racial demographic, Sanders and his supporters seem to think that West is: 1) proof that Bernie is "down with the brothers;" and 2) likely to attract more blacks to the campaign, both of which are laughable.

It's interesting to me that you and so many other Sanders supporters not only inject criticism of Clinton into ever discussion about Sanders and also have a very difficult time ever considering rational criticism of Sanders unless it also includes criticism of Clinton. Capehart's observations of Sanders/West stand on their own and do not need to be juxtaposed against criticisms of Hillary Clinton in order to be relevant. He doesn't need to mention her when talking about the problem that West poses for Sanders.