On Nov 22, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> "Incidentally, I still have a sympathy for [Obama], so if you ask me,
> frankly I don't like Tariq Ali's book on Obama, and I share this
> dislike with Alain Badiou.... Now here comes the paradox. I agree with
> [Ali's] analysis of Obama, how he's not [a socialist]. But fuck him,
> what did he expect: that Obama will be a communist/socialist president
> or what? It's fundamentally a useless book, I claim. You see, it makes
> us feel good. This is what I want to avoid: 'Oh, a big leftist comes
> and demonstrates that Obama didn't come and do the socialist
> revolution.' It's so cheap; it just confirms your feeling good."
>
> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/11/slavoj-zizek-violence-revisited/
He should get in touch with MoveOn:
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> Remember Barack Obama in 2008? The guy who refused to go along with a "dumb war" and said, "In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
>
> I miss that guy. Imagine if someone told you in 2008 that Barack Obama was actually thinking about signing legislation to extend the Bush tax giveaways for the rich.1 I wouldn't have believed it.
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> Now more than ever, we need the Barack Obama we elected in 2008—the smart, tough, hopeful progressive champion who inspired millions of us—to stand up and say "no" to a millionaire bailout.
>
> Right now, with the change we all fought for hanging in the balance, President Obama needs to hear from those of us who supported him the most.
>
> So we're asking MoveOn members nationwide to record a video message from the heart to tell President Obama to go to the mat to stop any extension of the millionaire tax giveaways—and to bring back the progressive fighter we all knew and supported in 2008.
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> Can you record and share a video message to President Obama today? Click here to get started:
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> http://pol.moveon.org/obamavideo/?id=25271-1795935-18Eb9ex&t=2