"He was allowing the court system to operate as if people were being represented when they really were not," said Amy Meselson, an immigration lawyer with the Legal Aid Society.
But by the time it descends into the drummers in Zuccotti Park, and people arguing into the night about which groups are being represented when they go up on the platform and speak, that just illustrates what's wrong with us.
And while still outnumbered, female voices only became more represented when they were also on-camera and their faces or bodies were shown.
UCS frames this disconnect brilliantly, stating, "If companies claim they don't agree with their trade groups' climate position, who are these trade groups representing when they fight against policy action to address climate change?" Yet fight they do.
No one is likely to have forgotten that change is what Obama was selling, what to millions of voters he represented when they went to the polls in droves last November.
It means supporting ideas, and when leaders stop living up to the ideas they purport to represent, when indeed they do the exact opposite of what their rhetoric (and the rhetoric of the party just a few years ago) promised, voters should take note.
