Cornel West finds Obama kind of ungrateful

Though Princeton University Professor Cornel West campaigned hard for President Barack Obama in 2008 their relationship has been on ice the past three years.

Last year West called Obama a "black puppet of corporate plutocrats" and last week he said that a second term for Obama would be "a disastrous response to a catastrophe" (though he said a Mitt Romney presidency would be worse).

What happened between the two? It looks like Obama failed to express proper gratitude at the help he received from West in '08. From a profile on West in New York magazine:

[A]fter Election Day, the man whose character and judgment West had so enthusiastically lauded at the Apollo never called to express his gratitude, and West found himself unable to procure tickets to the inauguration—something he desperately wanted to do for his mother. West was infuriated. Even now, when he talks about the break in their relations, West uses the language of a jilted lover. “One of the reasons I was personally upset is that I did not get a phone call, ever, after 65 events. It just struck me that it was not decent,” West says to me. “I don’t roll like that. People would say, ‘Oh, West, you’ve got the biggest ego in the world. He ain’t got time to say nothing to you.’ I say, ‘Weeell, I’m not like that. I’m not like that. If somebody does something for you, you take time to say thank you.’ ”

There's more in the profile about West being single after having been married three times (he says women are probably better off without him), his bout with prostate cancer and just how much he loves himself without actually saying he loves himself.

Read here.