Bernie Heading Back to South Carolina with Cornel West in Tow

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You said this!

And I don't think he says "crazy shit." He may just say shit that needs to be said,

Cornel West Takes on Obama

Philosopher and Princeton Professor Cornel West sparked controversy this week with comments he made about President Obama. In an interview with Truthdig, he lambasted the President for failing to deliver on alleged campaign promises and took aim at the President’s connection to the black community. West complained that Obama hadn’t called him back and refused to provide inauguration tickets for West’s mother and brother. He also said that Obama is “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.” West didn’t immediately return requests for comment.

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Melissa Harris-Perry writes in The Nation:

“Furthermore, West’s sense of betrayal is clearly more personal than ideological. In Hedges’s article West claims that a true progressive would always put love of the people above concern with the elite and privileged. Then he complains, “I couldn’t get a ticket [to the inauguration] with my mother and my brother. I said this is very strange. We drive into the hotel and the guy who picks up my bags from the hotel has a ticket to the inauguration… We had to watch the thing in the hotel.” Let me get this straight—the tenured, Princeton professor who collects five figures for public lectures was relegated to a hotel television while an anonymous hotel worker got tickets to the inauguration! What kind of crazy, mixed up class politics are these? Wait a minute…”

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/05/20/cornel-west-takes-on-obama/

Things that need to be said....K?~