It's election time! Do you know who you're electing?

I'd forgotten about this quote from Michelle Obama:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

I'm not sure how Barack is going to make us shed our cynicism when he can't help that with his own wife.