Legal Commentary

What Krugman Said

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Paul Krugman speaks for me:

[T]he suggestion that the American heartland suffered equally during the Clinton and Bush years is deeply misleading. In fact, the Clinton years were very good for working Americans in the Midwest, where real median household income soared before crashing after 2000.

[I]f I were a Democratic Party elder, I’d urge Mr. Obama to stop blurring the distinction between Clinton-era prosperity and Bush-era economic distress. . . . [L]et’s hope that once Mr. Obama is no longer running against someone named Clinton, he’ll stop denigrating the very good economic record of the only Democratic administration most Americans remember.

To the "Creative Class," that might mean I am "not a Dem." But it is what I think. I am glad to be in Krugman's company on this.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).