Vincent Harding,  in an article in Sojourners,  on the way forward after the experience of many who have felt let  down from the expectations and hopeful luminance of the election of Obama:

The question is, what do we do now? We know what we shouldn’t do now, in terms of dependence on the Democratic Party, as it is, on the president, as he is. How do we move us and them to another place, so that the richest country in the world will not have more than 20 percent of its children in poverty?

http://www.sojo.net/magazine/2012/03/do-not-grow-weary-or-lose-heart

This also taps into the positive experiences of Occupy.  It is “we” who do the moving.  A president is only as good ,  as a maximum,  as the demands of the people.  How do we “move us and them to another place” where the wider stories of the people where we are is heard once again and we receive back from our leaders the mechanisms aimed at  building something of that shape?