Elizabeth Kolbert writes a comment in The New Yorker on John McCain's sad slide into demagoguery on oil, and cuts to the heart of the matter: "If the hard truth is that the federal government can't do much to lower gas prices, the really hard truth is that it shouldn't try to."
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Posted 2:12 PM on 5 Aug 2008
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caniscandida Posted 5:44 pm
05 Aug 2008
Toward the end, she says, "Recent history suggests that Presidential campaigns don't reward integrity; the candidate who refuses to compromise his principles is unlikely to have a chance to act on them." Was presidential politics always like that?
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