Why Did Bernie Sanders Put an Obama-Hater on the Democratic Platform Committee?

[ericson00]

The liberal case against Hillary Clinton rests in large part upon her associations — people she surrounds herself with and whose judgment she relies upon. She has caught an enormous amount of flak, some of it fair, for her ties to figures in the finance industry or advisers with morally questionable worldviews. By the same token, what should we make of Bernie Sanders’s decision to appoint Cornel West as one of his advisers to the Democratic Party’s platform committee?

West, of course, has socialist views largely in line with Sanders’s own. But West also has a particular critique of the sitting Democratic president that goes well beyond Sanders’s expressions of disappointment. West’s position is not merely that Obama has not gone far enough, but that he has made life worse for African-Americans:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/bernie-sanders-cornel-west-and-obama-hating.html

Get West off the Platform Committee!

[bravenak]

1. Brother West sure seems to love 'Brother Trump', as he calls him.

Funny how these things connect up if you look at the whole picture. Haters stick together. Lots of folks seem to love hating Obama