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In reply to the discussion: In Defense of Obama by Paul Krugman [View all]Cha
(297,378 posts)50. It's really strange.. "the deafening sound of crickets" on Krugman's Rolling Stone article. They
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"There's a different story on the left, where you now find a significant number of critics decrying Obama as, to quote Cornel West, someone who ''posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.'' They're outraged that Wall Street hasn't been punished, that income inequality remains so high, that ''neoliberal'' economic policies are still in place. All of this seems to rest on the belief that if only Obama had put his eloquence behind a radical economic agenda, he could somehow have gotten that agenda past all the political barriers that have con- strained even his much more modest efforts. It's hard to take such claims seriously."
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Paul Krugman knows exponentially more about what the President has done than Cenk the Whiner.
Cha
Oct 2014
#11
THANK YOU PAUL KRUGMAN......for saying what I have been trying to say.....
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#3
But THEY are the REALLLLLL Democrats.....even though they now support a NON-Democrat!
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#6
Well, if you mention the congress that has blocked EVERYTHING this President has tried to do..
zappaman
Oct 2014
#10
Good! This cacophony of background noise they create....accomplishes NOTHING except to
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#21
Which is why it's a silly argument. Krugman's saying that the failure to punish Wall St. is valid
Chathamization
Oct 2014
#27
Agreed. But he's still wrong. As I and many of us have explained many times...
Liberal_Stalwart71
Oct 2014
#39
"It's hard to take such claims seriously." What the remaining smart folks here have been saying
Number23
Oct 2014
#32
It's really strange.. "the deafening sound of crickets" on Krugman's Rolling Stone article. They
Cha
Oct 2014
#50
Or maybe it's because this one was a dupe thread. There was a much nicer one posted Wednesday.
Electric Monk
Oct 2014
#59