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McCain, Obama could learn from local politicians

C ome on, candidates. Your thinking is stuck in the box. The names tossed out for Treasury secretary this week by This One McCain and That One Obama were investor Warren Buffett, proclaimed world's richest man by Forbes this year, and Meg Whitman, former chief of eBay. Sure, these sounded like rational choices when uttered during Tuesday's debate. But a money crisis like no other in a generation...

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