And there’s another thing happening, Obama appealed to us to imagine an alternative to the conventional, to turn over the fossilized and failed politics of the past. We bought that image, we want it, but it is in danger of being lost. The depression upon us is as serious as serious can be, it’s scary. Yet the proposals coming from Geitner and Summers are more of the same, perhaps another side of a coin, but that bad penny, should be thrown down to the ground. We must, as citizens, empowered by the recent election, with its two-way network enabled discourse, hold Obama accountable to the dream he offered.