The lessons of  MPs should be learning from Obama's projects to
include and inspire ordinary citizens – not voting to conceal
their expenses  He has talked about everything from saving banks
to saving the planet. But, this weekend, and just before his
inauguration on Tuesday, Barack Obama made his most exciting
announcement yet.  The doubters said he could never take his
"movement" into government. He would, they said, have to leave
behind the millions who knocked on doors and wrote $20 cheques.
But, in a YouTube video to supporters, he found a way to open up
government to include them through a new body, "Organizing for
America", that will use the internet to help "people like you
who fought for change during the campaign to continue fighting
for change in your communities". It's a brave and potentially
radical move. This will be the mothership for Obama 2.0.  Now
compare this to events here in the UK. How are our political
leaders seizing on citizens' new appetite for involvement and
information about polit