Paul Krugman

[BeyondGeography]

Poll question: Paul Krugman

[Baikonour]

1. Silly me, I almost forgot this is "General Discussion: Paul Krugman" for a second!

:banghead:

[Barack_America]

5. There should seriously be a "Hero Worship" topic forum.

For all of the "OMG ___________ (Krugman/KO/Rachel/Malloy) ROCKS!!!!11!!!11" posts to be moved to.

I think it's great to have liberal icons, but posts about them seldom encourage real "discussion".

[sandnsea]

17. If people have not called Washington D.C.

They by god better not be dickin' around with this poll or any other stupid Krugman thread.

CALL.

[PBS Poll-435]

2. Annoying Back-Seat Driver

:shrug:

[Barack_America]

8. Basically. Have you ever tried to imagine Krugman in Washington trying to accomplish REAL politics?

Every scenario I try to imagine ends with Krugman on the floor throwing a red-faced all out temper tantrum.

He's useful as a critic and watchdog, but not as a real producer of policy.

[Cha]

23. I like this DUer's assessment of Krugman..as well

as yours.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5016016#5016481

[Better Believe It]

3. Whoopppyyy! This is another valuable contribution to the Krugman smear campaign!

Conservative (centrist) Democrats and conservative (moderate) Republicans thank you for your unbiased :) :) poll!

Drink the "centrist" Republican/Democratic Kool-aide!

[AtomicKitten]

7. Krugman is pro cheap labor, pro free trade, and pro insurance mandates.

It appears you are the one drinking the kool-aid.

[Cha]

24. Krugman rags on Obama..

that's enough for some.

[AtomicKitten]

27. That has become apparent, sadly. n/t

[uponit7771]

4. He's pretty good poltically because he knows his history and can track human patterns, humans are...

...pretty consistent in their actions.

[Mass]

6. This discussion is getting sterile. We need to get this country moving and the favorite

topic of some anonymous DUers is whether a brilliant economist is bad because he happens not to worship the path our brilliant president follows.

Get over it. People will disagree. They will see the situation from different angles. And guess what, both may be right. Amazingly, Obama does understand that, but some of his supporters here are so overzealous that they are missing the point. Sad.

In passing, I guess he was also an idiot when he was criticizing Bush and people here were worshiping him as well

[Occam Bandage]

9. "He happens not to worship the path our brilliant president follows."

Finding the discussion too sterile, Mass decides to take a huge unsterilized dump in the middle of it.

[Mass]

12. Thanks for your brilliant input. It is indeeed useful.

[BeyondGeography]

10. "Brilliant economist"...how is that bad?

Like most mortals, the man has his deficits, is all.

[Mass]

14. Political dunce? Why? Because you do not agree with what he says?\nt

[BeyondGeography]

15. No, because his political pronouncements have a tendency to fly in the face of common sense

[Mass]

16. Listen, I have disagreed with him a lot concerning mandates. I disagree less on this topic.

because it has been a longtime frustration for me to see Dems in general start negotiating with a starting point that is too low and therefore having to compromise too much. I am not ready to judge Obama before I see the end result, but it seems to me the starting point was too low, and Krugman is not the only one saying so. Most other progressive economists say the same thing. Krugman may be more agressive saying it, which is a reason I stopped reading his columns a few years ago. I guess I should not have dropped in this topic, but it starts bothering me when I see people I respect go overboard on that.

[BeyondGeography]

18. It'll die down, but PK basically treats Obama like a failed President in his op-ed today

which is outrageous to some of us, especially since his analysis willfully ignores the realities of the U.S. Senate in our time. Hence the pissing party.

[rvablue]

11. Sterile, is right and might I add stupid and stale to that....

Last night I saw Krugman interviewed on ABC News. Basically, he was going head to head against George Will.

He squarely, soundly and repeatedly placed the blame for this mess on Shrub and the GOP policies.

Why are some so eager to hate him on DU, I don't get it??????

We're all on the same side and yet the in-fighting never ceases.

Shouldn't we be using our time, energy and resources to go after the Republicans and their politics of distruction, rather than trying to rip to shreds someone who more or less agrees with us?????

[Captain Hilts]

13. BINGO. And Krugman has praised some of Obama's actions. nt

[Phoonzang]

19. I don't know but I wish I could stop seeing threads with his name on it.

He's not helping. Really.

[stillcool]

20. Human being/Columnist/Economist

no big no small.

[anonymous171]

21. BOTH. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. Whiny dick.

[last_texas_dem]

25. According to some DUers, he's somehow an unrealistic ultra-lefty moonbat

and a bloodthirsty neoliberal anti-labor hack. Sure wish the "my Obama right or wrong" crowd would at least get a set of talking points that didn't blatantly contradict each other...

[Better Believe It]

26. You have to be ultra-conservative to believe that!