I'm pretty bitter. I'm bitter about 4000 dead Americans and tens of thousands of dead Iraqis. I'm bitter about the price of gas, the price of food, and the foreclosures in my neighborhood. I'm bitter at Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and George W. Bush. I'm bitter at a lot of things, but nothing makes me quite as bitter as turncoat liberals who tolerate right wing smears.
Paul Krugman, New York Times op-ed columnist and the self-declared conscience of liberalism, has spent the better part of five months lambasting Senator Barack Obama for being too conservative. His favorite topic is Obama’s health care plan, which he believes is inferior to Clinton’s, but a close second is his criticism of Obama for using "right wing talking points".
Sometimes he's on target (I still feel queasy about Obama's Hary and Louise mailer) and most of the time he's off base (like when Krugman railed against Obama for making a historic reference to Ronald Reagan). Krugman has repeatedly called Obama out for the usage of right wing rhetoric and tactics.
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