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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 09:52 AM
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Edited on Thu Aug-12-10 10:03 AM by Kurt_and_Hunter
My bad. I read the posting time as 9am and checked osts since that time, but it was actually 9pm from last night and was posted then by yhissyspit
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 09:57 AM
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1. Krugman is spot on.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 10:02 AM
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2. Krugman's not wrong, but he's a funny one to be lecturing about skin thickness
as his non-stop whining about the response of all us meanies to his criticsms of Obama's health care plan amply demonstrated, he doesn't have any.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 10:10 AM
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3. Criticism Is Warranted...Constructive Criticism Is Needed
In an effort to kumbaya the beltway political establishment (which failed miserably), this administration has let the media...the "professional right" and "Left" to pummel them on many issues. On the right most of the criticism is intended to hurt this administration and obstruct any real reform. It's distracting and distoring issues with death panels and 14th ammendments. The administration tried to placate then ignore and eventually caved to the criticism out of shell-shock. The Shirley Sherrod incident is a case in point...afraid of the possibility of a media shitstorm, she was fired sight unseen (other than a doctored Slimebart tape) and it backfired on them.

The criticisms on the left are another manner. I hear many of the "professional left" on the teevee handling a lot of what this administration has done, or not done, with kid gloves. They've tried to agree but disagree, however the list of unfulfilled of half-assed "solutions" has piled up and the criticisms of this administration become not only warranted but necessary. We hear of a lot of voter discontent and the "professional left" is expressing their concern, but the thin skins inside this administration have become so touchy that it is attempting to beat up on those who offer valid criticisms to offset the charges that are purely partisan. Instigating this further only divides and moves further the channels of communications so needed at this difficult time.
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