San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 6, 2008 by Tyche Hendricks, Matthai Kuruvila, and Leslie Fulbright
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/06/BAIV13USV3.DTL
Leadership is important, agreed Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and a member of Obama’s transition advisory board, but Obama’s instinct, as a former community organizer, is to encourage Americans not just to look to him to solve their problems but to look to themselves and their neighbors. “He wants the lesson to be that as individuals and communities, we have the power to create change and there are countless ways to do that, not just in Washington but in our local communities,” said Edley, who was Obama’s professor at Harvard Law School.