"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/
^^^^^^^^^ CB: Who is this Zizek ? I think he's reading my posts on this.