Kate, I think that’s the underlying problem with the Obama campaign. Underneath the gaseous platitudinous uplift – “We are the change we have been waiting for”, “Learning to love yourself is the greatest change of all”, etc – Barack and certainly the missus are a bit of a downer, and, for a couple who’ve soared so high so young, very pessimistic. Right now, the sonorous vapidity’s a more likely path to the White House than Edwardsian despair in a more appealing package.