Obama has been very clear that he is fighting against cynicism in his Presidential campaign.  A year ago at the DNC Winter Meeting, Obama said that in the upcoming campaign cynicism would be as big a rival Republicans.He reworked that same theme into a speech at an AIPAC conference a few weeks later, elevating cynicism to be an enemy equal to that of terrorists.Having spent a fair amount of time looking at Obama and cynicism (see here, here, here, here, here and here), I noticed a couple of stories that stand out when paired together.Michelle Obama recently gave a speech at UCLA carrying forward her husband’s message of ending cynicism: [Barack Obama] 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.On top of this we add...(Read Full Post)