Maggie's Farm

Quoted from Shrinkwrapped:

Barak Obama is a fairly conventional, mainstream Democratic liberal, albeit without the rage, while Mike Huckabee appears to be a fairly conventional Republican populist, also without the rage and with a more overt religious patina than the present occupant of the White House.  Both appear to be offering the Federal government as the ultimate protector against the vicissitudes of modern life and the dispenser of largesse to favored constituencies; neither, at least yet, offers much of a paradigm shift.  (I do not count Huckabee's "fair tax" since any proposal attacked by liberals and conservatives alike is unlikely to be enacted by a Democratic Congress for a Republican President.)

My sense is that Obama and Huckabee are running for Parent in Chief of an anxious and regressed nation. 

Yesterday on FNS, Brit Hume pointed out the contrast between the high percentage of Americans who tell pollsters that they are personally doing well and the equally large majority who report that America is on the wrong track.  Making sense of this apparent paradox is difficult, but allow me to make the attempt.

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