people into thinking he was a changed candidate who was ultimately there to condition the control of the big six industries and special interests that control so much of the political contributions in this country? i don t know. joining us now is the nation s ari berman who has been asking this question and many more. he is author of hurting donkeys, the fight to rebuild the democratic party and reshape american politics. ari, what is your answer to the question of obama the candidate and obama the president? hey, dylan, well, thanks for having me. i think if you look at the obama campaign, what was so interesting, there was incredible grassroots mobilization for obama and i think obama was expected to be this guy, as you said, come to washington and really shake up a corrupt, broken system and i think instead what happened is he relied on a very conventional top-down insider white house and the whole spirit of grassroots activism part of his campaign hasn t really translated to wa
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