Reply #281: Sad to say...Professor West is reaching irrelevant, irrational buffoon status.

[jefferson_dem]

What a pitiful crock this is...

“What it said to me on a personal level,” he goes on, “was that brother Barack Obama had no sense of gratitude, no sense of loyalty, no sense of even courtesy, sense of decency, just to say thank you. Is this the kind of manipulative, Machiavellian orientation we ought to get used to? That was on a personal level.”

But there was also the betrayal on the political and ideological level.

When did Cornel morph into an sad, out-of-touch fool? Obama is not now and never was an ideologue. In fact, his candidacy was rooted in a rejection of dogmatic ideology.