He doesn't like Obama.  That is not evidence that he is shilling.

If you have evidence, link it.  

journalist and/or a columnist to make distinctions between candidates. Few do that anymore because they want to be part of the cocktail weenie club.

Krugman did not start out as a NY Times columnist talking much about politics.  His view has evolved as the really ugly side of capitalism has taken a firm hold on not only our economy, but on our national psyche.  Greed is going at full throttle.  And he senses the urgency of our dilemma.  It's very urgent.

Krugman was the first columnist in the establishment media to go after Bush big time.  If you read his book, the conclusion he comes to about how our nation became radically fractured was a surprise to him.  He had believed like most orthodox economists that technological change and globalization CAUSED the increasing income disparity.  But now he believes that it was politics and politicians through a concerted effort to unmake the New Deal that caused the class war.

I think the guy has been pretty studious in discussing the various health care plans.  That Krugman has come to look more fondly on Keynesian economics which was very pragmatic and lent itself to giving working people a feeling of worth is what many of us have discovered over the last 6 years.  By seeing the extremes of the Friedman Gospel of Greed, many of us have seen that a lite version of it that we got in the 1990's is not the way to go at this moment in time.  Maybe some other time, but not now.

candidate.  They really think our biggest problems are our partisanship.

... on some substantive points -- but Krugman is attacking indiscriminately, with and without substantive argument.

It's a hack job, and nobody on any side of the question should swallow it.