LEFTIST WHACKJOB – AT 9:51 A.M. ET:  We recall with great warmth Bernie Sanders's appointment of Dr. Cornel West to the Democratic Party's platform committee.  West, whom I personally diagnose as borderline insane, is a hard-leftist African-American academic who wound up "teaching" at Princeton after the president of Harvard, where he'd been employed, suggested he do some serious work.  Racist!

Now West is taking another walk, after enjoying the hospitality of the Democrats.  From The Hill:

Activist Cornel West is endorsing Green Party candidate Jill Stein after previously backing Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid.

“This November, we need change,” he wrote Thursday in an op-ed for The Guardian. "Yet we are tied in a choice between [Donald] Trump, who would be a neo-fascist catastrophe, and [Hillary] Clinton, a neo-liberal disaster."

West then said he would back Stein over the alternatives.

“I am with her – the only progressive woman in the race – because we’ve got to get beyond this lock-jaw situation,” added West, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) platform drafting committee.

West said he could not in good conscience follow Sanders’s lead in supporting Clinton’s campaign earlier this week.

“I have a deep love for my brother Bernie Sanders, but I disagree with him on Hillary Clinton,” he said of the independent Vermont senator.

“I don’t think she would be an ‘outstanding president,’” West added of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. “Her militarism makes the world a less safe place.”

West added the presidency of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, is responsible for many of the nation’s problems today.

COMMENT:  What a loyal Democrat.  I wonder if Bernie had ever met him before appointing him to the Platform Committee. 

The beneficiary of West's new love, Jill Stein, makes Bernie Sanders look like an arch-conservative.  She's as far left as they get without getting arrested.

I love the factionalism of the left.  Just like the circus.

July 15, 2016