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Paul Krugman on ABC Compares 'Centrist Moderate' Obama to 'Irrational' Tea Party
Times Watch ^ | October 12, 2010 | Brent Baker

Posted on 10/12/2010 12:28:07 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan

During the roundtable discussion on This Week, ABC’s Sunday political talk show hosted by Christiane Amanpour, Times columnist Paul Krugman ridiculed Tea Party candidates as “irrational” and “seriously strange” before he insisted that their irrationality is demonstrated by their inability to recognize that Barack Obama is a “centrist moderate President.”

Krugman asserted: “If we have a Republican Party that actually takes the White House, actually has control of Congress, but contains a large wing of these people, it's going to be incapable of making real choices. These are people who are as irrational as they seem in these ads.”

He soon parodied the views of Tea Party enthusiasts:



There are some seriously strange people running, thanks to the Tea Party....It's not just suspicion of government. We have people out there believing that this basically centrist moderate President we have is a socialist bringing Sharia law to America. None of that is rational.


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1 posted on 10/12/2010 12:28:11 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

I just puked in my mouth a little


2 posted on 10/12/2010 12:30:16 PM PDT by facedodge (Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. ~Friedman)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

FUPK.


3 posted on 10/12/2010 12:30:23 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Paul Krugman on ABC Compares 'Centrist Moderate' Obama to 'Irrational' Tea Party

"Centrist Moderate" my ass! More like member of the Central Committee - aka Politburo!

4 posted on 10/12/2010 12:31:18 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

This guy is desperate...


5 posted on 10/12/2010 12:31:45 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

pffft..Krugman thinks Pol Pot was a centrist moderate as well..


6 posted on 10/12/2010 12:33:20 PM PDT by y6162
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Krugman believes that Obama isn’t liberal enough.


7 posted on 10/12/2010 12:33:23 PM PDT by misterrob (Thug Life....now showing at a White House near you....)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

that fat babbling fool is just another talking head elitist... he is quietly terrified to death of the Tea Party, it’s the beginning of the end for the American political class...

The Silent Majority will never again, be silent...


8 posted on 10/12/2010 12:33:23 PM PDT by keep your powder dry (With your pike upon your shoulder, at the rising of the moon!)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Compared to Krugman, Obama is a centrist.


9 posted on 10/12/2010 12:35:15 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
There are some seriously strange people running, thanks to the Tea Party....It's not just suspicion of government. We have people out there believing that this basically centrist moderate President we have is a socialist bringing Sharia law to America. None of that is rational.

The key definition of socialism is the government ownership of the means of production. Krugman, go check the ownership of GM, Chrysler, AIG and many of the other big banks, then come and talk to me. With health care, initially he's only aiming to control it while maintaining the facade of private ownership so ObamaCare would be more acurately described as Fascist Medicine rather than Socialized Medicine, but that is a difference without a distinction to patients who are told that no treatment other than final pain relief is allowed by order of the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

10 posted on 10/12/2010 12:36:00 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Grblb blabt unt mipt speeb!! Oot piffoo blaboo...)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

I can’t believe any RAT can listen to Krugman without feeling shame. He’s a total idiot and an embarrassment to anybody with the slightest bit of economic knowledge. The fact that he was awarded the politicized Nobel Prize just proves he’s a leftist hack.


11 posted on 10/12/2010 12:38:54 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Nobody thinks Obozo is a moderate centrist....uh...except maybe Krugman and a few other mental case whackjobs.


12 posted on 10/12/2010 12:41:30 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Every time I see this schmuck my hands automatically ball up into fists.


13 posted on 10/12/2010 12:48:39 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Hillary Clinton agrees with the tea party <p. Adminal Mulen is war gaming on Obama’s massive debt <p. Your an idiot.


14 posted on 10/12/2010 1:00:01 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Yes, “centrist moderate” like Brezhnev or Deng Xiaoping


15 posted on 10/12/2010 1:03:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Can you imagine how far they would go with a real ‘Progressive’?


16 posted on 10/12/2010 1:05:00 PM PDT by griswold3 ('Regulation and law without enforcement is no law at all)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

I still can’t fathom why Mommy and Daddy will spend $50,000 a year for Biffy and Buffy to attend Princeton and take lesson from idiots like Krugman and Blinder!


17 posted on 10/12/2010 1:24:25 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Times columnist Paul Krugman ridiculed Tea Party candidates as “irrational” and “seriously strange” before he insisted that their irrationality is demonstrated by their inability to recognize that Barack Obama is a “centrist moderate President.”

...and all 26 viewers across the nation agreed.

18 posted on 10/12/2010 1:25:24 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Hmmm... GWB was a socially conservative centrist moderate.

Obama is a freakishly far left liberal with fascist tendencies.

Krugman should be digging random holes in the desert looking for that last shred of honor he lost when he... Well, let’s not rehash Krugman’s many failings.


19 posted on 10/12/2010 2:23:32 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Why do people still listen to this numbskull? He is never right on anything!


20 posted on 10/12/2010 2:54:23 PM PDT by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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