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Paul Krugman's Correct About Campaigns

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Here’s a letter sent yesterday to the New York Times:

Paul Krugman is correct: the McCain campaign’s fabrications and
half-truths say much about what a McCain administration would do
("Blizzard of Lies [2]," Sept. 12).  But an Obama administration is
unlikely to be any better.  Sen. Obama eloquently proclaims
platitudes.  He gallivants around the country to perform for adoring
crowds – masses of people stirred by his mere presence and cheering his
empty bromides.  Because it’s true, as Mr. Krugman notes, that "how a
politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern,"
a President Obama would be chiefly a messianic cult leader, promising
miracle cures and salvation-by-the-speech – and daily coming more and
more to mistake his own charisma for character, and his own rhetoric
for reality.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux

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