Tariq Ali and others on Obama

I suspect Zizek might be the next member of the Left to post something on the web. There are some pre-election thoughts from Mike Davis, Howard Zinn and more, one from Judith Butler, and a response from Bifo that I would have to translate to read, alas. Here is a snippet from Tariq Ali:

If change means that nothing changes and all we have is imperialism with a human face, then those who have put Obama in the White House might decide after a few years have passed that a progressive party in the United States has become a necessity.

It seems many people, myself included, are still soaking all of this in. My neck of the woods on election night reminded me a bit of WTO - except that people were smiling, and there were no rubber bullets or tear gas: