The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

From the last part of Chris Hedges' May 16th interview with Cornel West:

“We have got to attempt to tell the truth, and that truth is painful,” he says. “It is a truth that is against the thick lies of the mainstream. In telling that truth we become so maladjusted to the prevailing injustice that the Democratic Party, more and more, is not just milquetoast and spineless, as it was before, but thoroughly complicitous with some of the worst things in the American empire. I don’t think in good conscience I could tell anybody to vote for Obama."

The whole interview is here: https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-1