Joan Walsh: "working class people haven't gotten enough help from this too-close-to-Wall St. admin"

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Full paragraph from an article whose main topic is Cornell West. I agree: when evaluating politicians, cut out the personal attacks and instead get right to the heart of the matter.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/?story=/opinion/walsh/2011/05/19/cornel_west

The most tragic thing, to me, about West's meltdown was the way he tried to frame it as a universalist defense of poor and working class people – who in fact haven't gotten enough help or attention from this too-close-to-Wall Street administration – but then somehow descends into personal attacks on the president as "a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats." If that wasn't bad enough, West claims Obama's problem is that he is afraid of "free black men" due to his white ancestry and years in the Ivy League. “He feels most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want,” West claimed.