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Political Play of the Day: Huckabee says crying toddler must be for Romney The Associated PressPublished: January 15, 2008 WARREN, Mich.: Confronted by crying toddler on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee quipped the child must be for his rival Mitt Romney. "He's not the happiest boy today," Huckabee said, smiling for a picture with the boy and his brother and sister. "I think he must be a Romney voter. Look at him. He's so sad." Huckabee greeted their mother and other supporters outside a polling place Tuesday in Michigan, where he was hoping for a decent showing but where GOP rivals Mitt Romney and John McCain were vying for first place. Huckabee's wife, Janet, pelted him with snowballs as he shook hands, taking advantage of her last chance to play in the snow before heading to South Carolina Tuesday afternoon. Her husband scooped up a couple of handfuls and returned fire as she darted toward the campaign bus.

People this scares me. I am a die hard Catholic Christian. I NEVER want to hear this from someone from any side of the isle. This is not only scary but stupid. GO AWAY HUCK LEAVE MY FREEDOM BE AND MY PARTY ALONE. I'm sure he dont believe in the HOLY EUCHARIST. Is he going to take that away from us out by changing the Constitution? The end of Transubstantiation cause ol huck don't believe in it. WAKE UP

"Above these [citizens] an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living? Subjection in small affairs manifests itself every day and makes itself felt without distinction by all citizens. It does not make them desperate, but it constantly thwarts them and brings them to renounce the use of their wills. Thus little by little, it extinguishes their spirits and enervates their souls." Alexis de Tocqueville