Krugman - a Blizzard of lies

[Doctor_J]

The TImes has taken Krugman's muzzle off and let him use the word "lie"

Still, how upset should we be about the McCain campaign’s lies? I mean, politics ain’t beanbag, and all that.

One answer is that the muck being hurled by the McCain campaign is preventing a debate on real issues — on whether the country really wants, for example, to continue the economic policies of the last eight years.

But there’s another answer, which may be even more important: how a politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern.

I’m not talking about the theory, often advanced as a defense of horse-race political reporting, that the skills needed to run a winning campaign are the same as those needed to run the country. The contrast between the Bush political team’s ruthless effectiveness and the heckuva job done by the Bush administration is living, breathing, bumbling, and, in the case of the emerging Interior Department scandal, coke-snorting and bed-hopping proof to the contrary.

I’m talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[bemildred]

1. LOL.

Tell them what you really think, Paul.
:thumbsup:

[Doctor_J]

2. Yes, this is one of his best.

Now until Nov 4 should be good reading.

[RedEarth]

3. Keep pointing out the lies of these low life assholes