"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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| In a previous article, "C J Campbell"
said:
| Maybe our first choice should be people of impeccable behavior,
regardless
| of their political leanings.
|
| My first choice would be people of impeccable principles. You got any
| candidates like that? John McCain is the closest I've sean, and even he
| tends to follow the political winds.

For all his "impeccable principles", McCain is a statist thug.

There are no such candidates left, if there ever were any. The political
parties are so obsessed with power that only the corrupt can survive.

"There can be no doubt that the old regime in Iraq was horrible. The Hussein
regime was a classic example of how the worst get on top of any system where
the government attempts to control and plan the entire economy. As FA Hayek
taught us (1945), those who are best at wielding power are the most brutal,
rather than the most humanitarian, people among us. President Bush surely
means well in his efforts to build a new Iraqi government and in supplying
billions in aid to it, but he will likely empower a new political elite with
this policy. This new elite need not be as tyrannical as the Hussein regime,
but it may not be much better, and will hardly be capable of promoting
economic efficiency."
Slaves to the Marshall Myth
by D.W. MacKenzie
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1374