Admit it. It’s OK today finally in polite circles. Because Paul Krugman woke up the other night.
And Lo! Verily. So cameth this divine vision down unto his Nobel winning noggin that truly, he who dost caveth before all hath no spine. ‘Why hast thou forsaken your flock?’, he cried. ‘Have we not offered Chenin Blanc and Brouilly both avec Camembert de Normandie‘?
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? (April 10, 2011)
Thus did Krugman hear the reply as if carried on the wind borne by a twin DR-103 stack. But without mid or presence controls and five pre-amp ECC83 and four EL-34 output tubes per head. For the reply did packeth punch without cascading gain sizzle:
“Pinhead.”
And it was good. Around the dried and empty barrels of Kool Aid and blogs, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Down unto his Twitter followers’ great-great-grandchildren.
Silly me. The way I read it was that Obama rolled Boehner. And he’s gonna do it again on the debt ceiling.
Sometimes when we wanna rant about Friedman, we bring up his bad stock picks and how we used to trust him. Now others are recalling the same Amazon flop and the arrogance associated with it – as w/ all else.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5792205/the-new-york-times-thomas-friedman-said-amazoncom-would-never-catch-on
When we 1st heard Obama used the phrase “win the future,” we cringed thinking it was a cheesball-type Newt/Luntz phrase that O himself would have laughed at a few years back – Then we found out that Newt actually had a book named by the phrase. So guess its best to stick with it and then accuse Newt of plagerism just for fun.
This latter part was the most interesting portion of Obama’s speech. He expressed moral outrage in a way I’ve never heard him do before, and in a way I didn’t think he was capable of. After his spokesmen have feebly pawed at Ryan’s plan for lacking “balance,” it was jolting to hear Obama lambaste Ryan with language like this:
Jonathan Chait (April 2011)
(emphasis added for the funny)
When will people learn to watch what Obama does (or avoids doing) rather than hang on his words? If what he said mattered, would we be in this situation? (That’s rhetorical of course).
Krugman even discovers the Goldilocks Paradigm *in 2011*.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/the-budget-speech/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman
Those Nobel brains are nimble.
In similar circumstances in the good old days there’d be Dems chomping at the bit to make a primary run of their own. But Obama probably really **is** the best they’ve got. Somebody please euthanize the Donk, for its own sake.
euskatel — the only thing I don’t understand about your article is that the call is to withhold donations IF he does so and so. By now, I would expect something more like, don’t give the Dems a nickel, period. I know that’s my 2012 donation strategy…..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/12/progressive-group-withold-donations-obama_n_848139.html
Progressive Group To Supporters: Withhold Donations To Obama If He Cuts Medicare, Medicaid
Oh nos!!! Got money on how fast the WH sends out Bubba Clinton to reign in those pesky Progressives. Someone will have to explain to me how the conventional wisdom is that Clinton was a friend to the left.
He really has collapsed like a house of cards, hasn’t he? Pathetic is the kindest thing I can say about him.