Health care reform is a big issue for me, so when Paul Krugman criticized Sen. Obama several weeks ago on his health care reform proposals, I took note and even diaried about it. Most know what ensued. Krugman criticized Obama's plan for its lack of mandates. Then Sen. Obama's people responded with an attack on Krugman that many saw as an attack on Krugman's credibility. Then Krugman responded to the attack on his blog. The entire back-and-forth was also debated hotly in the blogosphere with many Obama supporters criticizing Krugman and many bloggers criticizing Obama for attacking an important progressive voice.
Then campaign news turned in other directions, the horse race and Sen. Obama's rising poll numbers took center stage, and that seemed to be that.
But in tomorrow morning's New York Times, Paul Krugman throws down another and perhaps more inflammatory gauntlet. In contrasting Sen. Obama's approach toward negotiating health care reform with Sen. Edwards, Krugman says:
Which brings me to a big worry about Mr. Obama: in an important sense, he has in effect become the anti-change candidate.
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