Word of the Day: Accountability

huffingtonpost.com — President Obama delivered a strong populist, pro-middle class speech Tuesday night. But underneath the surface, below the headlines, something else incredibly important happened last night, and in the days leading up to the speech — something that I believe will have a lot more to do with the President's re-election than the SOTU speech. If he wants to run against Wall Street in this campaign, he needs credibility to do it, and he took a big step toward getting it Tuesday night. The key word of the day is accountability. The progressive movement in this country came together to firmly and aggressively hold this President accountable, and he responded by announcing something that has the potential to finally — finally, finally — hold the big banks on Wall Street accountable.

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