Reply #4: I remain a Krugman fan

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and yet I am also an Obama believer. Perhaps it is just my addled senior brain, but I don't understand why some on DU believe that one can't be both.

I also get tired of the cherry-picking of Krugman's comments that I see in some threads here on DU. So maybe he doesn't get every single thing right ... he's still pretty darn good. I have seen with my own eyes exactly what *'s eight years of policies did to the US's reputation abroad ... it is *, his group of war criminals and all their enablers who helped us to lose it. It wasn't Obama's policies that failed us ... it was theirs. So yes, Krugman is right; Obama has an uphill row to plow and it won't be easy. Merely recognizing that shouldn't detract either from Krugman for saying it or from Obama who is making sincere efforts to improve the situation.