I think you should reread the early chapters of "Audacity of Hope" where it appears Obama's main opponent is gridlock and his main aims are progressive.
There is evidence (which I will not elaborate at this time) to suggest that Obama has correctly identified the proximal source of our society's disfunction and even a cautious incremental solution not endorsed by either extreme of the liberal-conservative dimension and disatisfying to your run of the mill partisan or casual observer.
Frequently, I use the following quote by Anatoly Karpov to describe my sense of Obama's nonconfrontational circumspect style...
"Let us say the game may be continued in two ways: one of them is a beautiful tactical blow that gives rise to variations that don't yield to precise calculation; the other is clear positional pressure that leads to an endgame with microscopic chances of victory.... I would choose the latter without thinking twice".
Many of us who have languished under regressive malfeasance for far too long may have yearned for more, many have projected their own sense of things into Obama's abstracted rhetoric. This is understandable. Many rightly sense that what Obama is attempting to do is not enough. Even I, who can see the positive side to "the deal", think it is not enough.
Personally, I think something else besides legislative agendas, presidential fiats and unfair dialectics are needed to countervale the regresive message machine. So many people vote against their own interests, unknowingly I suspect, for lack progressive stimulation and outright regressive manipulation. With the announcement of a Newcorps Educational Outreach we know the regressives will continue apace.
What I think we need is idealogical infrastructure. I'm not saying anything new in this regard. I only want to suggest that the new dk4 format seems more able to serve as infrastructure towards those ends. In this current iteration, I feel like an isolated node, providing random comments with intermittant and transient connection to very few people. Hell, I didn't even know I had followers until I went to the beta site.
So when you eventually migrate to the public release of dk4 consider recreating yourself as a self taught expert or themed authority on something. Seek out a group of shared interest, maybe even give it a name, something like "The Institute for Moral Economics" or whatever. It is through groups that action takes form. Become a resource for others via you archive of writings, organization of other contents and get out to reframe the real world. I see that all these things are possible through what appears to be an enhanced dkos format.
Now if I can only be the change is seek...