Organizing Man

This Washington Post piece is chock full of glowing quotes about "revolutionizing" the presidency and channeling the tech-savviness of the campaign into governing.  But what's really radical about this approach (and that nobody seems to mention) is that, before Obama takes the oath of office, he's already showing how he's going to govern: like a community organizer.  Listening to people; soliciting their opinions; marshaling their passions and energies into the political process: Obama didn't need to be the head of Harvard Law Review to practice those things, as articles often emphasize (though I'm sure it didn't hurt).  Rather, those tools--seemingly innocuous, but also profoundly important to a democratic society.  And that's revolutionary.