He was saying some smart things about the war, and then Obama started going meta again in his Houston rally speech.  Now he’s talking about the “meaning of hope” and his family background.  “If you talk about hope, you’re fuzzy-headed, you’re not realistic, you’re peddling in false hopes.”  He then repeats his boilerplate about what hope is not.  Now he’s bad-mouthing cynics–that doesn’t sound very unifying to me!