Read Mr. Krugman’s full blog posting below. IMHO he is one of the clearest of the pundits around.
The Economy Explained in 135 Seconds
This is video from MoveOn.org. It features former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who IMHO is one best economists we have in the public forum. The other one I like is Paul Krugman. Both are so dead on that it is scary. Unfortunately, money speaks louder than common sense.
Obama, The Messiah, I don’t think so
I’ve never voted for a Republican, and I am having a hard time getting excited about Obama. The media is fueling some of that lack of excitement. They love to show Obama with some sort of halo around his head. I do not believe him to be the Messiah or a saint.
I also got so tired of the depiction of Hillary as a bumpkin from Arkansas. She is not a bumpkin nor is she from Arkansas. If they were not doing that, they were painting her as a shrewish old woman.
Obviously, he has managed to woo the media and Clinton has managed to alienate them. Or maybe it is as Paul Krugman suggests, racism is declining, but not misogyny.
I really wonder if having news 24×7 on multiple medias is really doing us a service. Especially when they use such broad strokes.
Number 5 has been used in a multitude of news stories.
And now Michelle…
And the broad strokes to paint the Clintons as hillbillies. Well I know hillbillies and they are not hillbillies…to paraphrase someone.
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Credit: Pat Oliphant
Quote for the Day – Paul Krugman
“It’s quite a comedown for Mr. Putin. And his swaggering strongman act helped set the stage for the disaster. A more open, accountable regime — one that wouldn’t have impressed Mr. Giuliani so much — would have been less corrupt, would probably have run up less debt, and would have been better placed to ride out falling oil prices. Macho posturing, it turns out, makes for bad economies.” ~~ Paul Krugman
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