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Krugman Not Taking Current Events Particularly Well

Obama administration: Not stupid (or evil) like Bush, but pretending to be.
By
Clay Waters
January 29, 2010 - 11:25am

The opening line of respected economist turned political hack columnist Paul Krugman's Thursday morning blog post at nytimes.com, "Pretending To Be Stupid [1], berating Obama for his recent feint toward fiscal restraint in the form of a limited "spending freeze":

When people ask me what I think of the Obama administration, I have a stock answer: they're not stupid and they're not evil, which represents a vast improvement.

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[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/pretending-to-be-stupid/
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[3] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/timeswatch
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[5] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/paulkrugman
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[10] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org