distillation you can find of change that you can believe in that he talked during the campaign. it is, i think -- this is a microcosm of the obama philosophy and era. people didn't pay a lot of attention to his policy ideas during the campaign, partly because they were interested in his race and his pastor and the ads about paris hilton but partly because a lot of his ideas were standard democratic ideas and there were things that even republicans have been talking about for a long time in terms of cutting taxes for the middle class, in terms of moving toward clean energy, reforming education so it is not just throwing money at schools. and then he suddenly had this opportunity to spend $800 billion and he kind of did it. you know, he had a line in his inaugural address where he sort of went through how we are going to knit the country closer together with high-speed rail and new broadband lines and he went on and on and talked about, you know, all these new things that he is going to do and the recovery act is really where you see it.