Michelle sent me an email with a link to this video.

Oh I’m sorry, you probably know her as Michelle Obama. I keep forgetting everyone isn’t on a first name basis with her, like I am.

Silly me.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics, they will only grow louder and more dissonant. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We have been warned against offering the people of this nation, “false hope.”

But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.