In an article in today's New York Times, Paul Krugman takes a cheap shot at Barack Obama and his campaign, all in a piece allegedly aimed at expressing concern about the level of unnecessary bitterness being spread in the Democratic presidential primaries. Witness the following passage:

"I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again."

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