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Krugman: The President Is Missing
NYTimes ^ | 4-10-11 | Krugman

Posted on 04/11/2011 5:19:48 AM PDT by tcrlaf

What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything in particular?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buyersremorse; krugman; obama; regret
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To: tcrlaf

I just prefer to imagine the title. It was good for a quick moment.


41 posted on 04/11/2011 8:09:53 AM PDT by dforest
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To: sickoflibs

The biggest fraud in american pulled by the media was Roosevelt. 80+% of the american people did not know he was crippled and in a wheel chair.


42 posted on 04/11/2011 8:16:00 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: sickoflibs
I realize that with hostile Republicans controlling the House, there’s not much Mr. Obama can get done in the way of concrete policy.

This is the part I really enjoy: there's no mention of the Democrat-controlled Senate here. It's got to be irksome for Reid and the boys, knowing that Obama's only gonna use them when he needs to shift the blame to somebody -- he's always going to take the credit for himself.

43 posted on 04/11/2011 8:42:57 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
RE :”I realize that with hostile Republicans controlling the House, there’s not much Mr. Obama can get done in the way of concrete policy..... This is the part I really enjoy: there's no mention of the Democrat-controlled Senate here. It's got to be irksome for Reid and the boys, knowing that Obama’s only gonna use them when he needs to shift the blame to somebody — he's always going to take the credit for himself.

What he may be saying which is accurate is that Obama is not going to get any new spending initiatives from the House not already in law. The current battles are about cutting spending inherited from prior budgets and CRs, which he is bemoaning.

You know Krugmann, he was calling for a 3-4 trillion dollar stimulus make works program and said deficits caused by government spending are good. But he knows he wont get that now. His prediction was that the $800B Obama stimulus was too small to work.

44 posted on 04/11/2011 8:52:17 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: tcrlaf; LucyT; little jeremiah; azishot; Fantasywriter
Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything in particular?

One-word answer, ZER0!

Let's not forget, Kruggie, that you took part in achieving a lot of firsts:

The first POTUS who meets the progressive strict conditions below:

- Black (half), check

- h0m0sexual, check

- Brilliantly brainless, check

- Affirmative Action, check

- Uneducated (where are the education records?), check

- Highest-ranking illegal alien (sorry, undocumented immigrant worker who doesn't put a day of work), check

- Atheist, check

- Anti-American, check

AND,

What the hell am I missing?

Hey, Krug man, you thought that you elected a Krugerrand of a progressive messiah (12th imam?) and what did you get? Not even a rusty penny!

You did a magnificent job, my son...don't regret it.

Papa Alinsky, An American Communist Icon

45 posted on 04/11/2011 9:12:12 AM PDT by melancholy (.Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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To: tcrlaf

To me, he’s kind of like the Emperor Claudius. Put in power half as a joke and half as a pawn for those wanted to pull the strings from behind the scenes. The difference is Claudius was actually intelligent, and he didn’t want to be Emperor, while Obama is a bumbling walking stick who wants power but doesn’t know he has no abilities.


46 posted on 04/11/2011 10:38:27 AM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: tcrlaf

Nope, he lives in Dallas and spends some weekends in Crawford. He isn’t missing.


47 posted on 04/11/2011 11:40:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ('As a kid, I got three meals a day: Oatmeal, miss-a-meal, and no meal.' Mr. T)
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To: tcrlaf

I read the article and the comments. I usually categorize liberals as either uninformed and ignorant or just plain evil anti-American moochers. After reading their comments, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is a waste of my time to engage them in discussion or try to convince them with logic, facts, and statistics. They have their own version of those things and they aren’t going to change their opinions or their ways.

So what does that mean for the future of this nation? Compromise doesn’t resolve our differences or even lessen the conflict. One side controlling the debate and making the decisions infuriates the opposing side.

I don’t see a way to amicably split the nation’s resources and boundaries. I don’t see a way for all producers to “Go Galt” and deny the moochers. I don’t see anything but greater conflict and eventual civil war. If Americans can’t make it work with two diametrically opposed world views, how on earth do globalists expect to make it work on a grand scale?


48 posted on 04/11/2011 11:42:29 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
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To: tcrlaf

There’s a saying in programming. Garbage in, garbage out.

And yet another pithy saying, “There is none so blind as he who will not see.” For those who were willing to look, none of this is surprising at all. He is who we thought he was, who we warned he was.


49 posted on 04/11/2011 11:48:06 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: melancholy
But if you ask me, I’d say that the nation wants — and more important, the nation needs — a president who believes in something, and is willing to take a stand.

Poor, Paul. We knew this 3 years ago. However, he'll never turn his back on his "messiah" no matter how much he rants about his "timidity". He'll just call it constructive critcism or something equally dumb.

50 posted on 04/11/2011 11:51:42 AM PDT by azishot (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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Anybody else getting sick of how Uhbamuh runs up any set of steps he has access to in order to show the rest of us how vital he is? I have a feeling if we stuck a massive tax cut at the top of a set of stairs, Uhbamuh would run up the steps to get to it. Maybe that’s how we should work to get him to do things that make sense.


51 posted on 04/11/2011 11:54:24 AM PDT by WillVoteForFood
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To: sickoflibs
Bears repeating.... "Krugman is just a Marxist dressed up by liberals as an economist."
52 posted on 04/11/2011 12:00:00 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: azishot

The Krugmans, Matthewss, the alphabet anchors and union leaders are busy defending 0b0z0 and his Communist junta of Czars, union thugs and h0m0sexuals who are pushing the country to the brink of violence.

The media traitors who are hiding in their gated communities won’t escape what they precipitate.

If the media were at least neutral, the Communists wouldn’t have been elected or if they were by a fluke, they would have resigned in disgrace already!

The media and Soros will harvest what they sow.


53 posted on 04/11/2011 12:25:25 PM PDT by melancholy (.Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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To: tcrlaf
And bear in mind that this was just the first of several chances for Republicans to hold the budget hostage and threaten a government shutdown; by caving in so completely on the first round, Mr. Obama set a baseline for even bigger concessions over the next few months.

Call the waaaaaahmbulance:)

What’s going on here? Despite the ferocious opposition he has faced since the day he took office, Mr. Obama is clearly still clinging to his vision of himself as a figure who can transcend America’s partisan differences. And his political strategists seem to believe that he can win re-election by positioning himself as being conciliatory and reasonable, by always being willing to compromise.

Bwahahahaha....

I’d say that the nation wants — and more important, the nation needs — a president who believes in something, and is willing to take a stand.

With this I agree: Next!!

54 posted on 04/11/2011 12:39:02 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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To: tcrlaf

It’s Krugman, but no barf alert? Newbies might not know this doctrinaire lefty.


55 posted on 04/11/2011 6:25:30 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: tcrlaf

Krugman is only running on a couple of cylinders himself.


56 posted on 04/11/2011 6:51:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Krugman is only running on a couple of cylinders himself.

If Keynesian economics is the answer, what was the question?

57 posted on 04/11/2011 6:55:26 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: okie01
I believe that Krugman has bought into Zer0's Kenyanesian Economics.
58 posted on 04/11/2011 7:08:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tcrlaf

“Lamentations From the Left”, catchy title, don’t you think? Mind if I borrow it for my next best seller, right after “Dreams ...” and “The Audacity ...”. Have your agent contact mine. Freegards, LMAO, good night.


59 posted on 04/11/2011 8:18:27 PM PDT by printhead
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL- man, you made me spit out my coke!


60 posted on 04/11/2011 8:24:30 PM PDT by Individual Rights in NJ (Infidel Inside)
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