Cenk talks to Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchmen and Audioslave, about his high hopes for President Obama — they’re both half-Kenyan, have Illinois roots, went to Harvard, were on the cover of “Rolling Stone” — and what Morello learned about the influence of campaign donations during his two-year stint as a scheduler for Sen. Alan Cranston.
“I admit that I was swept up in some of the euphoria around the [2008] election, in part because I never imagined there would be an African-American president,” Morello says. “That blinded me to the fact that it was a Democratic president more than it was some sort of Camelot knight waving a progressive magic wand to right all of our wrongs. I’m a firm believer in street politics, not Congressional and presidential politics.”
