> "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/
>
>
Heck, read the comments on Krugman's op-ed today... you don't have to have
thought that Obama was going to "do the socialist revolution" to think that
he and his administration have made the mess they were handed worse and done
so at their own cost not to mention the modicum of people who could have
been better served without Obama seeking to overthrow capitalism or act in
an anti-business fashion.