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Paul Krugman dishonest in attacking Obama

Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 09:12:02 PM PDT

Everyone's noticed that Krugman dislikes Obama and attacks him at every turn, but he is plain dishonest in his latest column.

This wasn’t the way things were supposed to play out.

Mr. Obama was supposed to be a transformational figure, with an almost magical ability to transcend partisan differences and unify the nation. Once voters got to know him — and once he had eliminated Hillary Clinton’s initial financial and organizational advantage — he was supposed to sweep easily to the nomination, then march on to a huge victory in November.

Actually, that was not the Obama prediction at all.  They leaked a spreadsheet showing a narrow victory by delegates in a battle extending all the way to June.

The sad thing you learn by paying attention to blogs is that the pundits published in our top media areas literally don't know what they are talking about.  Krugman may be a top economist, but he is dishonest on this primary.

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