"The Nobel Prize-winning economist, once one of the president’s most notable critics, on why Obama is a historic success." To sum this column up, it's all the Republican's fault.
Paul Krugman
Paragraph 1: The introduction to Krugman's own thoughts on Obama.
Paragraph 2: ..."Republican greed, the GOP's unwillingness to make even token concessions."
Paragraph 3: ..."Economic management has been half-crippled by Republican obstruction" ...
Paragraph 4: ..." the onslaught from the right, which has never stopped portraying him as an Islamic atheist Marxist Kenyan."
Paragraph 5: ..."There's a different story on the left, where you now find a significant number of critics decrying Obama as, to quote Cornel West, someone who ''posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.'' They're outraged that Wall Street hasn't been punished, that income inequality remains so high, that ''neoliberal'' economic policies are still in place. All of this seems to rest on the belief that if only Obama had put his eloquence behind a radical economic agenda, he could somehow have gotten that agenda past all the political barriers that have con- strained even his much more modest efforts. It's hard to take such claims seriously." http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-
Paragraph 6: "Finally, there's the constant belittling of Obama from mainstream pundits and talking heads." ...
Paragraph 7: "But this bashing is misguided even in its own terms – and in any case, it's focused on the wrong thing."
Paragraph 8: " ...(in which Republicans never, ever have a good word for a Democratic president, and vice versa),"...
"And so on, as the above is just the tip of the Krugman iceberg, which includes thoughts such as:
" ... John Roberts...nonetheless opened a loophole that has allowed Republican-controlled states to deny coverage to millions of Americans."
...
Paragraph 1: The introduction to Krugman's own thoughts on Obama.
Paragraph 2: ..."Republican greed, the GOP's unwillingness to make even token concessions."
Paragraph 3: ..."Economic management has been half-crippled by Republican obstruction" ...
Paragraph 4: ..." the onslaught from the right, which has never stopped portraying him as an Islamic atheist Marxist Kenyan."
Paragraph 5: ..."There's a different story on the left, where you now find a significant number of critics decrying Obama as, to quote Cornel West, someone who ''posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.'' They're outraged that Wall Street hasn't been punished, that income inequality remains so high, that ''neoliberal'' economic policies are still in place. All of this seems to rest on the belief that if only Obama had put his eloquence behind a radical economic agenda, he could somehow have gotten that agenda past all the political barriers that have con- strained even his much more modest efforts. It's hard to take such claims seriously." http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-
Paragraph 6: "Finally, there's the constant belittling of Obama from mainstream pundits and talking heads." ...
Paragraph 7: "But this bashing is misguided even in its own terms – and in any case, it's focused on the wrong thing."
Paragraph 8: " ...(in which Republicans never, ever have a good word for a Democratic president, and vice versa),"...
"And so on, as the above is just the tip of the Krugman iceberg, which includes thoughts such as:
" ... John Roberts...nonetheless opened a loophole that has allowed Republican-controlled states to deny coverage to millions of Americans."
...
"Of course, this success story makes nonsense of right-wing predictions of catastrophe."
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