Paul Krugman¹ is aghast that John McCain would pander. Is McCain not a politician? Would he not say or do whatever it took to get elected? Does the end of political power not justify the means?

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¹“Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults” (Daniel Okrent, “13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did,” The New York Times, 22 May 2005).