Yo, B, my man Krugman has been dissing Obama for a solid 8 months. I am cool with folks stepping up and saying, "I don't like this brother because..." but what troubles me about Krugman is the off-handedness with which he disses Obama and today's column is a perfect example. I wrote him an e-mail today, but this topic is one that needs to be addressed in your blog immediately and if you don't, I'ma have to put you on blast, too.
I definitely don’t want that.
I guess it always stings a little more when the opinion hounds turn their usual bag of tricks on someone or something you care about. So why is it that PKnyt is hell-bent on taking cheap shots at Obama, whenever possible? It’s not like Obama or his supporters are arguing in favor of the decrepit health care system that we have currently. And it is not like Clinton and her surrogates haven’t opened the door with even more cynical and supercilious attacks from their camp. My guess is that this is similar to an academic dispute in which two extremely intelligent professors start out at odds with one another based on a difference of opinion. Because it is a matter of opinion and not fact, neither one can empirically prove the other wrong, yet each knows that their counterpart is wrong. As my father–in-law is fond of saying “That’s my opinion, but I know it is right because if it weren’t right it wouldn’t be my opinion.” To admit otherwise is not possible. So the differences quickly escalate and the two colleagues become rivals. Nothing the other does can ever have any merit, because this would call into question the whole premise of the original argument. This easily devolves into the kind of counterproductive sniper fire that hinders any real progress.
As mcdaddy puts the question to Krugman:
Why are you kicking that away with silly potshots at someone who may not be on your team right now, but is certainly on your side?
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