I voted for him twice and can't stand the sight of him anymore. #sellout

@pwhales264

6 жыл бұрын

Mary Walters , So what , almost every other president before him is super rich and lives just like he's doing or even worse.

@marywalters1181

6 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the Obama defenders. They're just like Clinton cultists.

@pwhales264

6 жыл бұрын

Mary Walters , I'm not defending President Obama as a matter fact I'll be the first one to say he has made a lot of mistakes but he's also done a lot of good things too, but the main point I was trying to express was other past presidents have done even worse than President Obama, so if you are going to concentrate on President Obama, then start concentrating on other dirt back presidents that came before him.

@marywalters1181

6 жыл бұрын

You have no idea why I can't stand the sight of him. Go away.

@kenbush6942

6 жыл бұрын

name one good thing obama did with approval of congress

Not surprised, just really disappointed. We need more leaders with integrity and he just didn't have enough.

@deseangibir4764

6 жыл бұрын

ClarkB It’s not going to happen

@eileenmc4746

6 жыл бұрын

he is NO mandela. he is NO MLK. he is NO Malcolm X

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair

Cornell West said it best:"He is [and was] the smiley face of empire.

We need a French Revolution for the whole world.

@monkeyzuul7808

6 жыл бұрын

Why not Russian?

@monte68x

6 жыл бұрын

The day the working people of the world decide to walk away from Capitalism is the day the plutocracies fall.

@Zayden.

6 жыл бұрын

Kropotkin2000 #OctoberRevolution

@tomdasilva2060

6 жыл бұрын

Yup... Let the Guillotine sweep the shit, far and wide...

@olivierlecuyer9344

6 жыл бұрын

Catalyst, why do you think was 9/11 for? (among other things) there will be no successful uprising anytime soon. It will be crushed as homegrown terrorism

Obamas speech sounds like an advertisement for the super rich

We were had.

@Barney-ii1no

6 жыл бұрын

if you are a fan of trump you have been had again

@AlexSmith-lt4it

6 жыл бұрын

All the presidents serve the donor class aka the billionaire class. Presidents/politicians are all puppets. That is why they all say one thing and do another. Nothing will change until by some miracle big money is removed out of politics.

@bachrocktheamericahatersan5799

6 жыл бұрын

Barney, if you are a wage earning LEGAL American citizen, I'd be happy to have you relinquish your tax cut to me....if you are legitimate, that is.

@tomdasilva2060

6 жыл бұрын

Obama fooled a whole lot of people: people thought they were voting, for a "black" man (50/50, actually)... In reality, he is a 100% lilly-white guy; however, so full of shit, that he exudes it, through the skin...

@tomdasilva2060

6 жыл бұрын

Barney Trump is doing a very good job... With a bit of luck, the whole system will implode...

Basically he’s saying, “Please don’t kill us when you uprise. Some of us are okay.”

I voted for Barry the first time, but when he filled his swamp with Wall Street, I went back to the Green Party.

@t814

6 жыл бұрын

Johann Stahl Who he appointed was decided by others before Obama was even elected. You should do better research beforehand.

@jasminaalm

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

So what progressives have been saying since forever has finally been laid bare.

@kinky_Z

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. We're always right in the end but nobody ever listens to us when it might make a difference. Why? Because Progressives are increasingly immune to brainwashing and corporate propaganda but others - not so much. Let's now stay vigilant against "counter-propaganda." They will play every dirty game in the book to ensure the protection of the interests of the bipartisan Donor Class - much to our continued downfall... so let's stay vigilant!

@davidsenderodelsanto

6 жыл бұрын

KInky Couldn't have said it better myself. Let's not forget that Obama instituted an office of pro-imperialist/capitalist propaganda operating out of the State Department and repealed the directive that forbade the CIA from running PsyOps domestically or propagandizing the American People.

That guy is the epitomy of "all talk".

He said that capitalists should pay their taxes and stop exploiting people. And then he acknowledges that the system doesn't allow it.

Great discussion. Waiting for Part 2!

Hypocrite. Betrayal comes so easily to him. Impotent justification is all he has left.

Joins??! Who do you think he has been working for his whole entire life?

"it is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence but their social existence that determines their consciousness." Karl Marx

i belive it was truman who after being president and in retirement was asked to give a speech - he happly obliged but asked if they could help pay the train fare obama retires gives a speech to bankers and recieves $400,000 for a one hour talk

@mistercut8331

6 жыл бұрын

not in 1956

I have to give a big RIGHT ON to Prof. Leo Panitch here!

He was always in the club. He was an imposter just like the others.

@hopetaylor4946

6 жыл бұрын

The End Begins Yep

Prof. Panitch, I read somewhere that after a meeting Obama had with the bank CEOs those CEOs were stunned and thrilled by the fact that he was going to bail them out with no strings attached.

Excellent discussion, thank you. Looking forward to the next part.

Reminds me of that end credit logo from the Chappelle show, "I'm rich Biyatch!"

If I were worth 100 million I would feel comfortable anywhere. Thanks for selling out. Martin Luther King’s nightmare...integration into a burning house.

Money corrupts. He is just human.

His facial expression says it all. He seems detached, probably feeling ashamed to say what he is saying, but knows he is obligated to mouth those platitudes and palliatives.

Great guest, Great interview. THANK YOU >>>> The Real News

Quite symbolic to have Obama in SA singing the old song of neo-liberal fantasies, where few days later the BRICS-plus meeting took place, representing the new rising economic order, one that is far more inclusive and evenly distributed (massive infrastructure investments). Also, when the neo-liberals talk of "lifting millions" out of poverty...who did most of that? China. how? Socialism with Chinese characteristics (something like 700 million lifted out of poverty). In the meantime poverty has increased in both US and EU.

Great talk! Thank you. Love your work

What Obama said starting at 1:00 is absolutely correct. However, his contribution seems to be to have helped the ruling class be a bit more inclusive, not to bring it to heel.

The real question is, how much was he paid for making that speech?!

We as a people have the power to stop them but we must unity to do this we can make America great for everyone but we are divided by everything

great work paul

I hope Obama sees this segment

Obama looks like he wants to laugh at himself whenever he took pauses in his speech.

@nrabinov

6 жыл бұрын

airamona more likely he's thinking man, I can't believe they're paying me millions of dollars to say this shit!

"DING!!!" I could see that Wall St. bell ring coming from Obama a long time ago.

The say most and do least President.

@Zayden.

6 жыл бұрын

Krugzug O he did plenty. Just not for working people. Instead he dutifully and bureaucratically served the capitalists that chose him to be the president of US imperialism. Just like every other US president. That is inherent in the presidential position as it exists now.

WTF! Thanks for sticking it to us again President Obama.

You'll never see the change you cry out for unless you you start walking the path from another direction

Obama is the exact same thing as bush and trump

@deseangibir4764

6 жыл бұрын

Gold & Oil Spot on! And Clinton, Reagan, Bush, etc...... none of these presidents have ever been for the people. It’s no questioning why things are so bad. It’s a well devised plan to be so. And it’s all with the consent of the people because for some reason many don’t see the game being played.

@MrRasZee

5 жыл бұрын

they both got nothing on trump, bush destroyed america and obama was the second hit, hillary would have knocked america clean out

@MrRasZee

5 жыл бұрын

thats right level, trump exposes these rats, i believe trump will fulfill his agenda and drain that filthy swamp

@elizabethgarcia1894

3 жыл бұрын

Never like Trump

The objective of a politician is to close the gap between the State and civil society. Owing to this separation the call for overcoming the gap between them is the guiding principal and reason for the vocation.

You can always tell whom the president serves by who is in his cabinet.

Hope and change!

3:35 unbelievable! He describes corporate greed and corruption then says it's "often done without malice." Shame on you, Obama.

"Yes, we can!" How sad that phrase, which is such a lie, is.

Everyone has a price. He finally hit the jackpot. Don’t hate the player hate the game.

Peter Joseph as a guest please and on a regular basis

There are more people who want to see him in jail then there are people who want to watch him make a speech.

An interesting critique by the real news team . Huge shame that our mains tream media, which is trapped by the forces of vested interests that are failing the public,and either can not or choose not to do the same .

Heres some suggestions: Look up Public Banking, Basic Income, The monetary reform legislation put forth by The American Monetary Institute, Also look up the Group~Positive Money.

Holy shit. It’s like Obama read “Listen Liberal” and just copied down the entire thing.

Spot on analysis. The biggest failure was not in Obama's failures, but in the American public's misunderstanding - and possibly unwillingness - to accept that he was an apologist for american exceptionalism and salesman for global capitalism. Unlike his proudly defiant neoliberal predecessors in the Clinton era New Democrats, Obama and his cadre tailored their message to acknowledge the many failures of US institutions domestically and abroad but then insist that it was sensible and pragmatic to avoid deep analysis that would result in change that overhauled or completely replaced these institutions because they were vital to continued human progress.

If everything is on self destruction, what’s the point!? Except why do we need to be on self destruction?!

Paul, please address third party candidate alternatives. The two party system has FAILED.

walkin' shoes!

That´s change we could believe in.

I love the beard, Paul.

Obama gets the golden boot award for hipocracy . The man loves to listen to himself talk .

This is why we got Trump. That's not an endorsement of him, just a statement of fact.

30 pieces of Silver.

He's smiling while he says these things.... Lock him up!

I wonder if he's going to tell his daughters that he killed women and children on a daily basis for one reason the luv of money

Change we can believe in.

Leo Panitch analyses and tries to give context to Obama and his speech but above all he seems mesmerized by Obama. I am not so easily mesmerized. Obama is like the guard standing on the shore with a life-jacket watching a struggling man in the water and when this man finally washes up on shore nearly drowned , the guard throws him the life-jacket.

Surprise, surprise!

The Cons got sold out by Reagan and Trump we got sold out by Clinton and this Bum. It just don't end.

MORE 👏 DIVERSITY 👏 AMONG 👏 OLIGARCHS! 👏

"Rational evil." Wow. We have meet the monster and he is us.

Jeez, you take this guy jet-skiing and he'll defend anything!

FOLLOW THE MONEY ---- ALWAYS TELLS YOU THE STORY.

God, what a falling off was there. "Aristocracy of old" There you have it. A "decent" percentage consider themselves liberal. All urban. Oh, and "philanthropy." My God, he should really go away. He is doing a service, however, by helping destroy the Democratic party.

@richardburt9812

6 жыл бұрын

I voted for him twice.

Yeah, no shit they're making rational decisions. The problem is that these decisions are good for them and awful for the rest of us. I can't believe people still defend this guy.

I wish there was a way to get a debate with Paul Jay as moderator between Leo Panich and Steven Pinker. Steven then can talk about all the glorious statistics about human progress under globalist rule, and Leo can explain how it all really works. Namely that whatever is great progress and reduction of human suffering is basically an unintended consequence of globalisation. Steven knows the facts and presents them in a way to question those who only talk about doom and gloom, think Hedges. Steven isn’t a bad guy though, he is sort of progressive, still close with Chomsky, but was kind of lured into singing often the elite’s tune, but also chased there by the hyperventilating ultra-left. He is worth saving, and Leo might be able to do the job.

I have to say, though - the comments below give me a lot of hope for the USA. You can even see Obama choking on some of those words in the speech - just imagine his kids asking him: "Why did you bail out the banks, daddy?" or "What is a kill list, papa?"

I'm glad i voted for Nader in 2008.

Shocker

Thinking a president is going to lead us to a better economy and society is probably a significant part of the problem.

As an example, members of the second generation Walmart family have little interest in anything other than travel and personal pleasure. All they know is that money is not a problem. Their great wealth is really a block of capital that is presided over by money managers and hedge funds that are in for a cut of quarterly profits. This group is the driving force behind ever increasing wealth. It is this group that draw from these great fortunes to buy legislation to suspend capital gains or generous tax breaks. These people are not the job creators. They are parasites.

To those that voted him, why? Which domestic policy of his did you support? Which foreign policy of his did you support? Or were you more caught up in his image/personality and treated your election like a reality show? #ThisIsAmerica #VotePoliciesNotPersonalities Democrats and Republicans aren't the only choices. Vote in people who represent policies you support. Their party is unlikely to win but you'll be giving rational, people-centred representatives a greater platform to be heard by other voters. Campaign for *POLICIES* not names. Do something. You've got to start somewhere. In the UK, we want to protect our nationalised healthcare system and other public services. So we campaign for them. The person/party who supports *US* first (not the other way round), gets our support in return. This is how Jeremy Corbyn received 40% (May received 41%. She lost her party it's majority in Parliament so she resorted to bribery) of the votes during the 2017 General Election despite a unified mainstream media smear campaign. It's not the same as Trump who is disgusting. Trump called Nazis "very fine people". He also seemed fine receiving a public endorsement from head Nazi during his election campaign. He's sent a member of his military to give support and take photographs with Nazis in Ukraine. Netanyahu's been sending them weapons. Theresa May supports these two. Corbyn has protested against apartheid and racism his whole life. His parents protested against fascism in the Battle of Cable Street when Nazi supporters marched through a Jewish residential area. We still have the mural depicting the event. As a lifelong anti-racism activist, Corbyn has been invited as a special guest speaker for the annual remembrance event. But he is repeatedly accused of racism by right wing Zionists because he doesn't think criticism of Apartheid Israel is antisemitic. Even when he had dinner with left wing Jews simply because they're leftwing. No one thinks criticism of Arabia, Iran, Syria or Palestine is antisemitic after all. And they're Semites. If you've see the Al Jazeera undercover report, you'll know Israel sent agents to attack the reputations of democratically British politicians that don't obey Israel and write scripts to be read out in Parliament for those that do. And Theresa May simply overlooked it because she's a member of a lobbyist group called Conservative Friends of Israel, the British version of AIPAC. Corbyn has also been accused of being Czech spy and a Russian puppet. The former being because of a nonsensical story published in one newspaper and then repeated everywhere else, including the BBC. The latter was because he asked to be shown evidence that Russia was behind the Salisbury incident that didn't make sense to anyone no matter how hard the minority government and mainstream media pushed it. It got to the point that prominent rightwing criticisers of Corbyn had to defend him despite their differing political views. Because whichever side of the political spectrum normal people are on, most do not want more wars based on lies. Last year the BBC aired photoshopped pictures of Corbyn with bin Laden during the General Election who he's never met or supported, with a Trump cap even though he criticised Trump's election while May eagerly congratulated him and most recently they photoshopped him as a Russian in Russia for asking for evidence when May accused Russia of the Salisbury incident before the investigation had even been concluded. While Trump and the people he's appointed have had meetings with Russians (even on the US's Independence Day). While Apartheid Israel has boasted of controlling the US President's decisions. And he does come out with contradictory statements on his views on Russia. As does May on her views on Trump. You have other options.

Paul, I think you’d have a more in depth analysis and sense-making by speaking about this speech with Yanis Veroufakis and David Harvey.

Obama's speech proves that satire is dead.

He’s an apologist for the capitalist class. He sounds like Hayek here.

Let's not forget who we're talking about... an intelligence community organizer - who's half Cheney-Cousin and half Nigerian Prince... (yeah I know his dad was Kenyan... but he's a full-blooded scam artist).

We all knew that was going to happen!

How is this guy not being arrested for mass war crimes, theft, and corruption, as he leaves U.S. airspace? Bipartisan hatred for him.

Democrat the Prof. Leo Panitch like Obama front as a critical thinker and critic of "the system"/ capitalism and Obama in order in the last analysis defends and promote it!

if we quit talking about him, maybe he'll just go away.

Now he has enough time to meet with the flat earth society! Bud he doesn't! What a Bummer!

And he is still running stuff behind the scenes via certain organization. Still interfering in government affairs.

So paying a bribe isn't a rational response to greed, just a rational response to a balance sheet. Got it. What is the rational response to global enslavement by a small elite, given that the enslavement is not malicious?

Is this a #walkaway friendly environment?

Obama is the best politician that this system can produce and that is the problem.

@t814

6 жыл бұрын

Dante Brown What system?

Despicable .

Another one who became super rich with politic! Kind of people don’t feel shy at tall!

23:00 - Stephen Pinker has a lot to answer to...

Why didn't you show the final part of his speech, when Barack Obama turns round, lowers his pants to reveal his cheeky side and puts his middle finger up to the people who voted for him twice as well as to Nelson Mandela's memory ?!

Maybe he thinks they will help him when he goes to jail.....He is going and he knows it......

I can´t stand that actor with all his promises. The least he could do is returning the Nobel peace price. That is what a real man would do after engaging his country in seven wars.

I love how smooth his speeches are now that he isn't a president. He did that whole Bush Jr thing and pretended to be a bad speaker to make him look less of a detached Super-rich guy. I'm not sure of the name for it but his speeches are like oxymoron. He says liberal stuff, to make the democratic voters happy and at the same time, promotes fascist cooperate (monopolistic) policies. The two don't work together. The problem is that people want to stand up for Obama and simply because he isn't as bad as the republicans. Another problem is that people are in denial. We are not in a capitalist economical system but rather, we are in a monopolistic oligarchy.

Obama joined them back in the '90's.

And I believe his "organizing" was merely to put on his resume in preparation for a presidential run - ambitious, two-faced, phony human.