Give Paul Krugman one hour, Mr. President

[babsbunny]

http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=1955

I won’t even try denying it. When compared to the brainy insider types, people like Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner, who are running Barack Obama’s economic policy — and let us all stand with our mouths appropriately agape in awe and wonder at the very mention of their names — those of us supporting disreputable (and socialistic!) things like growing the stimulus package and nationalizing failing banks are a fairly motley bunch. Who can blame Obama for wanting to keep us at arm’s length?

I mean, some of us are even of that lowest of all breeds — quick, lock up the children and the womenfolk — the bloggers. And Obama made it crystal clear in his recent interview with The New York Times that he has little use for such reprobates:

[Pirate Smile]

1. Obama reads Krugman's columns. Krugman is a columnist. He has a blog but he is mainly a columnist

and Obama reads it.

I'm sorry your feelings got hurt. Stop acting like he personally called you trash.

[TheCoxwain]

2. How do you know that? .

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3. He reads the NYT and says he especially reads the columns that disagree with him.

He has brought up Krugman himself by name.

[edhopper]

4. Krugman

is a Nobel Prize winning Economist and a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, has co-written the standard textbook on international economics and is one of the most influential Economist in the World. He write a column for the NY Times as well.
David Brooks and Maureen Dowd are columnist. Krugman is much more.

[GreenTea]

5. Nobel Prize winner - Paul Krugman is among the 50 most influential economists in the world today

Paul Krugman has done extensive work in international economics, including work on international trade, economic geography, and international finance. According to the Research Papers in Economics project. Krugman's International Economics: Theory and Policy, co-authored with Maurice Obstfeld is a standard introductory textbook on international economics. He also writes on economic topics for the general public, sometimes on international economic topics but also on income distribution and public policy.

Paul Krugman a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics...

Who the fuck are the clowns working with the banks, bailouts and on our economy? The fuckers (Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner) used to work for Goldman Sachs and other corporate banks?

Get fucking real dude...these clowns are the problem they worked in republican administrations and believe in status quo, breaks & bailouts for the INCOMPETENT banks and their idiot greedy CEO's.

What the fuck is your problem with "One Hour"?

[ThomWV]

6. No, he is a Professor of History and Economics and a Nobel Laureate, the columnist is part time.

two or three days a week at best.

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7. My point was that he isn't a blogger. He blogs but that isn't his title. Obama saying he doesn't

read blogs wasn't about Krugman.