“There are still voices, even within our own community, that focus on what might go wrong,” Michelle Obama said in a speech yesterday. “It’s not just about fear, people. It’s also about love. I know people want to protect us and themselves from disappointment and failure, from the possibility of being let down again — not by us, but by the world as it is. A world that we fear might not be ready for a decent man like Barack.”

Obama and Hillary Clinton are the only presidential candidates who currently have Secret Service protection.