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Deluded Pols Think They Run Markets

LIKE THE ROOSTER WHO THINKS his crowing makes the sun rise, politicians are cocksure what they say and do makes the world work.

John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Wednesday credited the latest $10 a barrel drop in crude oil prices to President Bush's lifting of a ban on offshore drilling. McCain, who previously has acknowledged that economics isn't his strong suit, said at a town meeting in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., that Bush's action affected the psychology of the crude market.


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