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  • Right wing blowback appends to corporate power, shielded from view (for those not much interested in looking) by public government's apparent democracy. It isn't that the Democrats simply aren't much interested in real reform, it's that those largely calling their shots aren't. WE see the narrow range of what our own "Evil Empire" will allow.

    Yeah, I know, not actually quite that simple. But it's closer to the truth than a lot of the shorthand reports about "who actually runs" the country.

  • McCain is pro,as arnie said "I might play a action hero in my movies,but McCain is a real action hero,yea argh GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!!"

  • I don't understand Mccain, just from hearing a small fraction of his history with the military and the many extraordinary experiences he's been through, you'd think he would be a VERY stern man, what we have instead is a guy who can't keep that many political opinions for more then a year straight.

    I do have a tremendous amount of respect for his many accomplishments in the military, but with politics, it's like he just bends over backwards.

  • Stop analysing the characters, Obama can do nothing for the current structure. If he doesn't do what the banks tell him they can fuck off with their assets to Canada or Mexico or Europe.

  • Stop, stop, stop, stop... You cannot compare apple and tomato. A heck of a lots of bank in Canada and in Mexico are based in USA. And, even if the European market is fine to some need, I will put Singapore at the place of Canada and Mexico.

  • @yohaneuano4 um..no they cant? there would be MASSIVE losses to up and move every facility to a new country....further, america has some of the most lax rules anyways even after this reform

  • @yohaneuano4 banks still need peoples money,yanks have lots of money so the banks will want to stay in america,mexico not much money and europe already stricter with banks than yanks,though not by much

  • I think the "change" Obama was talking about is the 49 cents in my pocket.

    WTF Obama!

  • Good points, Cenk, this coming from a conservative who likes McCain about as much as you like Lieberman.

  • Obama is being disgraceful.

  • come on tyt just give me the news i dont care about what you think on the issue, even if i may agree with you, im gona watch AP over tyt from now on

  • TYT is not a news program, it's a commentary program. That's what they do. They give their opinions on the issues. This is like going to Taco Bell and ordering a pizza.

  • @NuRm69 I completely agree with you about TYT being a commentary program, but you can get a pizza at Taco Bell. Many Taco Bells have Pizza Huts in them and they also have a Mexican Pizza on the menu. That's all I am saying. You should have used a cheeseburger analogy instead ;)

  • And you can also get your news on TYT, but it won't be just pure news, you are going to have commentary with it.

    Maybe I should have used a better analogy, but I'll say this. If I want pizza, it's not going to be Mexican Pizza.

  • Well thats a bit off, cenk OBVIOUSLY lets you know what he likes and supports but he didn make up the facts of the story, mccain is talking about this reform and obama is against it. Thats the facts out of the piece.

  • @benympls

    I never said Cenk makes up facts. All I'm saying is he just gives his point of view of the story. He's not an anchorman, he's a commentator.

    If you want pure news, look for Reuters or AP.

  • Isn't this rather academic as chances of investment arms of banks splitting from commercial operations (branches etc) remote?

    Also, lets say a miracle happens and this is forced on them, do you think the service you get is likely to get better or worse?

    As they wouldn't have your money to play with and they make peanuts (to them) from their commercial operations, they would have little incentive to offer great service.

    They have also been falling over themselves to pay back TARP.

  • Why doesn't Cenk just say Obama sucks ass? seriously cenk, get your nose out of Obama's ass! Obama lied, there is no change and if there is, its for the worse. I know its fun to make fun of the stupid jesus loving freaks, but for the love of god, Obama is no better and neither are the pussy liberal apologist and the pretentious democrats.

  • @Pull0utBoy Have you been paying attention at all??? Cenks been bitching about Obama for months.

  • The outrage he has for republicans and the tea baggers should be on the same Level with Obama, I don't get why he's so soft on him....

  • Cenk has been very critical of Obama numerous times duh! Maybe if you watched TYT you'd know that moron.

  • Why don't you inform yourself more before making a dumbass post like this one? You're really making an ass out of yourself with this. If you really knew Cenk, then you'd know he's really critical of Obama and isn't an Obamaniac lol

  • Obama's two objectives for this term:

    1. Get reelected.

    2. Stay alive.

    Considering the way the right-wingers freak out over even the suggestion of reform, imagine what they'd do if a president actually tried to do real reform.

  • i used to like obama when he made all those campaign promises...but i guess we all saw it coming when he sent all those troops over...and isnt doing much for us at all...but i dont know if mccain would be doing much good for us either

  • It's easier to not buckle under pressure when there's less pressure in the first place

  • That is the McCain I used to know.

  • The ONLY person I trust from either side is Howard Dean.

  • This channel is flooding Youtube with shit videos, i have no idea why i subscribed....

  • You really shouldnt dismiss someone because of thier age. I mean, really the things this president did this month....SMH...WE WERE FOOLED...its so obvious that a 12-14 year old can see.....sad

  • @Mlmn3212 - You took the words right out of my mouth.

  • I think you guys may be getting even more hosed than the right-wing with Bush.

    I'm not g|oating, I rea||y think it's sad that 0bama's such a tremendous |iar and continuing so much Bush era BS and even making it worse.

    Peop|e can't even pretend that he's just dumb, he was a Constitutiona| |aw professor.

    I'm so disgusted with po|itics. The on|y 2 worth a damn are Ron Pau| and Dennis Kucinich.

  • hate to tell you buddy

    Ron paul is as much of a liar as anyother politician

  • I studied him for years, more than any other po|itician. I'|| need more than your say-so.

  • just because were young does not mean we do not understand politics, Ms, or madam , I know that No matter who's elected wont make a Damn difference whos sitting in that Oval office, The Corporations own everything and control everything

    President is just a Piece of shit Title

  • I don't ho|d your youth against you, but I a|so don't give peop|e credit for it.

    If you're 14, you just don't know a |ot of things, it's not an insu|t, just a fact.

    Po|itics is not |ike mathematics or science, it takes someone who's fami|iar with the mi||ions of ways that peop|e can screw you over.

    Good |uck to you as we||.

  • in actuality i am 15 , and that is a not stated as fact because i have been studying Politics and economics since i 5 since my father is a broker , and i am a sophomore in a university studying on the same issues discussed in this video.

    And Good luck to you again

  • 0h, you're on|y 14 years o|d.

    I'm not going to debate things with you when you haven't experienced anything Re|axingSin.

    G|ad you take an interest in po|itics though.

  • No, you probably just don't agree with him.

  • I'd add Howard Dean to that list from current evidence.

  • @Amy31415......if you think Obama is a conservative, I suppose then you will vote for him in the next election? The reason why we know you are conservative is your writing style....long on rhetoric and insults but completely lacking in substance. WHEN PRETENDING TO BE A LIBERAL, YOU NEED TO POST MESSAGES AS A LIBERAL.

  • @Rata4You

    Where did I say 0bama's a conservative? Where did I pretend to be a |ibera|? I think you're confused.

    I never hide the fact that I am a fisca| conservative and a socia| |ibera|--at |east by current definitions of the words.

    And p|ease, get your caps |ock button fixed.

  • Cenk you act like Obama is fighting against health care reform wtf?

  • @jaroncreed

    Um... yeah. That is exactly what is going on with the caving in to the Big Insurance corps.

    I support Obama, (though I did not vote for him) but the White House has been quite clear about their unwillingness to support a strong public option.

    The current health care reform package is FILLED with beneficial language for the Industry, and the American voters will get screwed again.

    Barry has not used ANY muscle to bring about his campaign promises on the PO.

  • You had me until you called him Barry, suggesting that you dabble in conspiracy theories and perhaps listen to whack job alex jones. Go back under your rock idiot

  • I call him Barry, because his family nicknamed him Barry. He was called Barry, like his father was, until he decided to go purely by his African name in 1980.

    This is not a conspiracy theory. It is truth.

    If you had read any of his own writings, you would know that.

    You just openly admitted you would dismiss truth, rather than research it yourself, because of the moniker I used?

    And I am the "idiot"?

    Please. You are apparently not prepared to have a serious discussion on this topic.

  • He is not fighting against healthcare reform, he is just not fighting hard enough FOR it.

    This is very difficult, because billions are being spent against it.

  • John McCain, when he does not think he can win, will go by his principles.

  • What the Hell is going on?

  • Congratulations. TYT nation rules!!

  • obama sucks... all talk no work

  • They both suck

  • I don't care what side of the line the guy is on...If he's going to fight to get shit straightened out I'm all for it! Obama has proven that he's been nothing more than TALK!

  • Hey Liberals hows your favorite pet monkey doing so far. Did Obongo give you the change you wanted. The only change a black man could possibly bring is the one thats in his styrophone cup that he got from people handing them out.

  • Dunno why conservatives are so eager to bash Obama when lots of his policies are leaning towards conservative ideals. Of course, he's left in social issues, which is why I'm in support of him still. I've more or less given up on hoping for progressive policies regarding other issues, such as economics.

  • lovely racist GOP morons like yourself have no say in what goes on in our world moron..

  • And the only change a right wing conservative douchebag like yourself can bring is found under the cushions of your living room sofa where you fuck your hayseed red necked sister/wife, and plant your fat ass night after night watching Fox News in order to boost Glen Beck's ratings and prove conclusively yet again how fucking brain dead you truly are.

  • Woah, two years ago I would never have conceived that I might say this, but go John McCain and Fuck Obama. Day is night, night is day.

  • about fucking time, Glass-Steagall is awesome

  • The change you can believe in is the knife twisting in you back! It has gone from perpendicular from the floor to parallel to it.

  • Obama is just a black Bush he did all the thiungs Bush did.

  • things not thiungs

  • Bush, but minus the chronic stupidity and ignorance.

  • @abcd1to or perhaps regardless whose president, that person is introduce to the people who really run the country

  • @abcd1to

    Lol true. Obama is a black, literate Bush.

  • fuck obama

  • Now all of a sudden this lying pandering piece of shit McCain is now for regulation when all he did was preach free market and DEregulation. Fuckin lame.

  • A lot of that lying was more Faux News than McCain himself.

  • FUCK OBAMA!!!!!!

  • I heard this today and couldn't believe that John McCain was working to add parts of this "glass eagle act".

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  • When I try to discuss subjects like this with my neighbors, you can see their eyes just glaze over and you can see that their mind has drifted over to last night's reality tv show or something.

    Their prowess in financial matters ends at calculating how many beers they have left out of that 30 pack and whether they have enough money to get another one.

    They have no idea of how important this stuff is.

  • I know the feeling.

  • Oh look, it's another person on the internet saying that everyone's stupid and that they're so much smarter than the average person.

  • Hey, I don't know where you live, but that's the reaction I get from people around here. I'm in metro-Atlanta.

    I can't find anyone interested in talking politics with me. So here I am.

    And no, I don't think I'm smarter in politics than other people who are interested in politics. Its just that my neighbors seem to think the politicians will sort it out for them. No need to get too involved.

  • Your whole statement proves that you are smarter then your neighbors at least.

  • Obama has no long term plan for financial reform other than getting re-elected with wall streets money

  • FUCK YEAH MCCAIN.

    I'm a liberal but I fucking love McCain.

  • ... and then he sold out and put Palin in charge.

  • Yeah, undeniably kind of a dick move.

  • Yes.

    YES!

    GLASS STEAGAL FTW!

    Don't let the investor class gamble with our hard earned money anymore!

  • I am disappointed in Obama. He's seriously starting to lose my vote in 2012.

  • @VirusofLife182 hes already lost my 2012 vote and i voted for him this time....because hes not acting like he wants to do anything he said he would.

  • He is just another politician who is the corporate whore

  • Wow... our government is made of greedy fucks.

  • Senator McCain>President McCain

  • all in favor?

    hear hear

  • I heartfully agree.

  • McCain threw the election because he was assured that the agenda would continue with the more popular candidate, Obama. Now that it's over he can continue with his wily ways. /conspiracyoff lol isn't that fun?

  • These progressive commercials are starting to get on my nerves :/ I go on the interwebs to get away from commercials

  • Campaign Reform is needed  to combat corruption

  • FUCK OBAMA...SAID IT ONCE AND I'll ALWAYS SAY IT...FUCK'EM

  • You know what FUCK Obama. I'm so tired of middle class getting shafted again and again. Stop the fucking talking and show some action. He is weak ass leader PERIOD.

  • It occurs to me that Obama doesn't care about being re-elected.... he has me completely confused, I was totally fooled. What a disappointment (°_°)

    Maybe McCain can actually start producing a maverick voting record in the senate, then run as an independent in 2012, if he's still alive... hahahaha!

    The Republican party is dead!

    The Democratic party is pathetic!

    Long live the Independents!

  • Yeah, it's strange, but at the rate Obama is going you'd think he really does not give a shit at all. I mean he was elected because he gave warm and hearty speeches about CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN. While that now sounds like pile of steamy bullshit, I just don't understand how he doesn't realize he is committing political suicide by being so passive and weak. There must be more to this than I know. All I can say is that I'm really disappointed.

  • Maybe they made him an offer he couldn't refuse?

  • For those of you which are unaware, this is what pre republican (2000 and before) Mccain is like.

  • Like Cenk said...

    Mccain abandoned his positions when he got the nomination. That was dissapointing and kinda strange i guess because he didnt have to. After all, where was the right gonna go?

    And i might we'll have voted for him had he not done that...

    But its good to see the old guy doin his thing...

    Stop letting them make outrageous bets with our 401ks!!!!

  • Jonh McCain is a great progressive! lol!

  • lol totally unreal!

  • We need a left wing revolution, end of.

  • DID anyone see the Obama Deception? it speaks about the staff Obama picked and how they're all from wall street.. great film by Alex Jones..

  • haha, or he thinks the american people are morons by picking a woman as some sort of way to pick up Hilary supporters. Either way, I wouldnt want him in charge of the country.

  • It's really really easy to say stuff like that when you're not the one in power. It's just more stupid populism. Cenk if you don't even believe Obama any more (and you shouldn't) what makes you think McCain or any of these guys would do it any differently?

    Simple answer: Of courrrrrse they wouldn't. Some times TYT is painfully naive.

  • what makes you think McCain or any of these guys would do it any differently?

    --If you listened to the whole video, you could recall him saying towards the end "lets keep it real, if Macain was in office he'd do the same" meaning he acknowledges politicians sell out

  • No I know, but Cenk keeps doing that. First he goes on a 10 minute rant on Obama is worse than (fill in the blank, McCain in this case) and then near the end he goes "well not really."

    So what was that rant about then? If you know McCain is just selling BS like any other politician, what's the point? When it comes to Obama Cenk is seriously lacking perspective. Obama never claimed to be some uber-liberal. In fact he said categorically that he wasn't before the election.

  • McCain has the big elphant-rapesupporting-equalit­yhalting-richpeoplesupporting-­monkey not as much on his back, he is free-er to do what he wants

  • McCaine has surprised us a few times man. Maybe he would have been better as president LOL.....

    I mean one of the biggest things for me is that he would havve kept the war going but sop is obama so what's the difference...

  • there isnt one you just came the that conclusion yourself, remember it, and probably more importantly dont kid yourself it things would have been different with mccain

  • Ridiculous Obama. They keep on building more and more banks in my area, in matter of fact, I'm pretty sure there are almost as many banks as restaurants. They're using our money to expand their empires.

    I never truly hated McCain; just thinks he's too conservative for my general tastes. That and Palin would have ended the world.

  • @mathesonguy

    john mccain was in a hotel in hanoi? what? wow if you were any dumber you would forget to breath. you need to stop talking honest your that dumb.

  • Uh o, looks like the end is near.

  • @ecwaufisxtreme

    tool.

  • I totally agree.

    I mean where was John McCain when it was time to fight for his country?

    Holed up in some hotel in Hanoi.

    What a pussy.

    I'm glad Sarah's around to do the real fighting for America.

    It's good that there are people like you around who know the real meaning of patriotism, and sacrifice.

    What kind of puss can't even lift his arms above his shoulders?

    Sarah can do 10X the amount of jumping jacks McCain can. She is that tough.

  • Haha

  • lmao nice troll comment or dumbest things ive heard within memory

  • Dont get your hopes up Cenk. If its good for the people it will nose dive.

  • Why didn't the government just tell us all to take out our money .

  • if this keeps up, I'm joining the Mexican drug cartels in Mexico and make a decent living out of that. fuck this country is turning into a 3rd world one, if it hasn't yet

  • Regardless of what they do in the way of reform, they can stiil transfer your funds?

  • Both parties are funded by the same people. So McCain's actions here are remarkable.

    Campaign reform is ever more important!

  • Why didn't McCain fight for this 10 years ago?

  • @ooMONKEYoo

    Cause there was no 2008 crash 10 years ago.

  • Any shithead with a brain could have seen unregulated banking wasn't a good idea. It's what caused the first great depression.

  • WOW i,m really surprised

    GO McCain !!!!!!!!!

  • John McCain is not back. ..then you havent followed McCain enough since the election, he is a grumpy old vindictive man nowadays.

  • yawn..........................­...............

  • Good job, Cenk!  This is one subject you have totally nailed.

  • mitch mcconnell is trying to over throw compain reform so they can take all the money they want with out making it public so what is mccain really fighting for???? we need reform all the way around thanks to bush bringing our greate country to its knees

  • im afraid your statement is innacurate tenrock382k9, bush did not bring the country to it's knees, he made it kneel down and suck the money out of the banks dicks in a bizzarre capitalist bukkake.

  • oh yeah my bad lol

  • There's some good Republicans, like McCain when he's not being idiotic and Ron Paul.. but if you vote Republicans in what do you think is going to happen? The problem when a people think their government is left is that they can in practice be as right-wing as they like. Poland's Solidarity party, for one, plus numerous instances in Latin America under pressure from the US imperial organs WB and IMF.

  • It's probably just smart politics by McCain. He likes to jump on the good side of something that has no shot of passing, then talk a good game in public, but doesn't do much on it outside of that. I doubt if this had resounding Dem support he would be on board. But now he can say: "Hey look, I am a maverick, I fought for reform, look at this..", it's a classic McCain move. Quite like how he helped get a commission to investigate intelligence, but then helped whitewash the issue from the inside.

  • That's very similar to how I feel about this. My observation about it is there's a number of details in the story that give me the feeling something fishy is at play here; that this reform McCain is now advocating will actually do very little good if it does pass. And McCain is just too schizophrenic for my trust.

  • So no marriage equality. No wars ended. No real HCR. No real banking reform. Someone remind me of what change I voted for?

  • You didn't vote for CHANGE you voted for change, chump change.

    Penny for your troubles sir?

    Learn it know it: Politicians are shit, liberals conservatives alike.

  • Yeah but like on the farm, some politicians are more shit than others ;D

  • agreed - any thoughts on, you know.. a solution?

  • At AllyKaht, I don't like republicans but you are right. It does take a soldier to know war and how to end one

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  • Sounds like McCain & Lieberman should switch places. Ah, who am I kidding.

  • just coz McCain is republican doesnt mean hes crap.. hes quite smart. And hes a war hero so he knows what its like to be in an actual war unlike GWBush...

  • Just out of curiosity - is everyone who is captured by the enemy and lives to tell about it considered a war hero? Sincerely, I just want to know.

  • yah thats pretty much all it takes... or pretty much just going into combat

  • well i think the fact that he went to fight for his country makes him a hero, what i was trying to say is that McCain allthough is still a republican, has more knowlage and my personal repect than Bush

  • Yes its very admirable but that he is always referred to as heroic - I just don't understand what he did that is indicative of heroism. Hero is usually reserved for people who do something heroic. But OF COURSE he's a better man then W could even think to be.

  • How is bombing Vietnamese people from a plane "fighting for your country"?

  • BEST QUESTION E-E-E-E-EVER!!!!!

  • How sad is it that McCain is "bucking the system" by aligning himself with the "Change" Obama promised, but is failing to fulfill?

    Maybe Obama is the smartest one of all? The GOP will dig their heels in against ANYTHING Obama supports, so is Obama playing reverse psychology? Sadly, I doubt it!

    I believe that if Obama initiated legislation to restore the GlassSteagall Act, McCain would not have supported him.

    MONDAY MORNING QUARTER BACKING to prep for 2012! Don't believe the hype!

  • As a man who voted for Obama i couldn't agree more. What kills me though is the outrage from the right. What are they really so upset about? The socialistcommunistliberalnazi agenda they think is being rammed down their throats is nowhere near happening. Obama is just another in a long line of presidents beholden to the military and corporate power structure. Be upset about that.

  • LOL that would require rational thinking from the right.

  • All Obama has to do, (as he has done with other whores, [err, "politicians"]), is to give McCain a few hundred million dollars not to oppose his strategy.

    It seems to have worked on his other programs.

    Hoax & change some believed in.

  • Hundred million ???? no politicians are way way cheaper than than.

  • "change" my ass,

  • mine too - could use a firmer version.

  • I never had a problem with McCain at the begining of the 2008 elections. I cringed at his views on abortion rights and a few other things, but figured he wouldn't really go there. I might've even voted for the old McCain. Where I shifted was when he brought Palin on board and started cow-towing to the social conservatives. Everything I'd admired about McCain was gone, almost overnight. I think that's when he lost a lot of Independants like me.

  • AGREED!

  • McCain was all about deregulation and now he's got reform religion now?

    Never trust a flip flopper like McCain.

  • The "long term"-argument for Obama's "great plan" ran out of steam months ago.

  • Let's not get too excited about McCain. He's probably doing this just because he's not on the bankers' "bonus list" like Obama is. As soon as he gets on the list, he'll flip.

  • that's what he said on the video, but thanks..

  • Republicans won't pass financial reform either. But they do a damn good job of calling out Obama's bluff and making him look bad here. Call it 2012 election strategy for the Republicans, and a pretty brilliant way to harness popular vote.

  • i can see where cenk is coming from with this. i dont like john mccain, i think hes a washed up fail, but he maes a decent point here. this side of john mccain is the most rational thing ive ever heard john mccain support.

  • Obama is no fdr or even lbj. obama=FAIL

  • mccain rox

  • tiger tiger woods yall....

  • What is it, opposite day? Oh it is only opposite day for McCain. Obama is just normally being a shill for the banks and insurance companies.

  • Maybe he should give his seat to Biden, because Biden actually has balls! You go John McCain! I didn't vote for you, but you're right on this issue!

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  • oh come on. you didnt see this coming from obama? glad to see youre waking up.

  • there's no such thing as reform. just more robbery.