“Once”: Still Great
Ever since it won the Oscar for Best Song, I haven’t been able to get it out of my head:
“Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
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Paul Krugman Is Wrong Again
I like Paul Krugman. I think he’s good people. I think he tends to have smart, insightful, and concise op-eds and certainly deserves his column more than Thomas “I Rape Your Brain with a Metaphor” Friedman. But lately, his Hillary-love has gotten absolutely bizarre and taken him away from recognizing some facts with Obama. He did it back in January when he couldn’t understand that when Obama said of Ronald Reagan, he had a “sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.” And while you can hate Ronald Reagan to pieces for all his horrible policies, there’s no denying that he was one charming motherfucker. It’s clear that Obama is trying to be the Reagan of the progressive movement. Krugman saw it as a cynical attempt to woo moderate conservatives and then launches into an attack on Reaganomics which clearly Obama wasn’t praising. You’d have to be fucked in the head to think that any serious Democrat would pursue that failed economic strategy. Mr. Krugman appears to be fucked in the head.
He lends credence to this theory with his latest article where he makes numerous mistakes. He first says that Obama is divissive among progressives because he’s willing to reach out to Republicans. And yet, in visiting some of the more liberal opinion sites on the Internet on a daily basis, including Crooks and Liars and The Huffington Post, I don’t see any progressives decrying Obama. If anything, they’re cautious about Clinton because they remember that “New Democrat” is code for “Republican-lite”.
Second, Krugman believes that the Republican Attack Machine will come out in full-force against Obama. I have no doubt that it will. But unlike Hillary, it has to make that argument where as with her, it only has to reinforce it. Obama has already shown himself adept at countering, as he showed last week when he made sure to be in the same news-cycle as the stories doubting his patriotism.
But the argument that really frustrated me was this one:
Bob Somerby of the media-criticism site dailyhowler.com predicts that Mr. Obama will be “Dukakised”: “treated as an alien, unsettling presence.” That sounds all too plausible.
Okay, let’s just do a photo-op. Here’s the famous one of Dukakis looking like a doofus:
Now look at these photos of Obama doing things that would probably look dorky if Dukakis or John Kerry attempted them:
Krugman needs to do a little more legwork if he thinks that Obama will be Dukakised, and that McCain’s “aw, shucks” persona will out-play Obama’s dynamism. I understand he’s wary of Obama and I can understand that. He may very well be all smoke and mirrors. But Krugman needs to make a better argument if he’s going to keep sticking to that story.
Time For Me To Live Abroad
Note to Self: Move to New Zealand.
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