Campaign for Character

Prof. Boudreaux writes a great letter to the editor today.

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," 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