It is a very cute and powerful rhetorical trick to take two seemingly-extreme positions and place yourself in the middle or outside of the two factions. "Ignore these two bickering children: we're the mature adults in the middle."

Recall that both Obama and McCain tried mightily to position themselves as outside of the usual left-right beltway squabbles. Each of them claimed to be the "maverick middle." It's very powerful to claim oneself as the "sane center" between…

If you don't know about possibilionairism you should watch this video.

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Guido: "Brother! Brother! Our country as been invaded by barbarians! They intend to take away our rights, and especially the rights of our homosexual and female neighbors. We must fight them!"

Luigi: "Yes, I see that this is a big problem! What should we…