Campaigns to Administrations

From Krugman's op-ed today:

But there’s another answer, which may be even more important: how a politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern.
I’m not talking about the theory, often advanced as a defense of horse-race political reporting, that the skills needed to run a winning campaign are the same as those needed to run the country. The contrast between the Bush political team’s ruthless effectiveness and the heckuva job done by the Bush administration is living, breathing, bumbling, and, in the case of the emerging Interior Department scandal, coke-snorting and bed-hopping proof to the contrary.
I’m talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.
And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?
What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.

Well, I think Krugman has a point. If McCain feels okay with lying to the American people to promote an agenda now (we need more drilling!), what's to say he won't lie to enact those policies once in office. He's providing "answers" that aren't answers at all, but a simplification of the issues that actually prevents any real tackling of the issues themselves. Of course politicians are going to pander during campaign season, but they pander in their administrations as well, and if McCain doesn't mind pandering with outright lies, that's something to be concerned about.

However, what does Obama's campaign say about how he would run his administration? Would he be weak an indicisive, as the media is portraying his campaign now? How do we cut to the actual character of a campaign through the media slog, since that is the lens through which we all come to learn about the candidates and their potential administrations?