David, that article provides observations in line with the findings published in Prof. Arthur C. Brooks’ Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (Basic Books, 2006).

As you know, this campaign has apparently everyone in the Old Media thinking in terms of the messiah (and verily, verily, I say unto thee: Gaggeth thou me with a ladle), remember when Jesus praised the widow who gave only two mites, because it was proportionally greater than that given with great show by the Pharisee?

Even then, you will note, the Pharisee made a show of giving his own money. Today?s modern Pharisee takes your money and my money and only then makes a show of giving it.

I love the state motto of North Carolina: Esse quam videri. To be rather than to seem. Schweizer’s article and Brooks’ book provide a good example of the difference between being and seeming.