Op-Ed Columnist - Obama Versus the Corporations - NYTimes.com So where does that leave the president and his party? Mr. Obama wanted to transcend partisanship. Instead, however, he finds himself very much in the position Franklin Roosevelt described in a famous 1936 speech, struggling with ?the old enemies of peace ? business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.? ....sos, backed by bubbaism
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But won?t the grass-roots rebel at being used? Don?t count on it. Last week Rand Paul, the Tea Party darling who is now the Republican nominee for senator from Kentucky, declared that the president?s criticism of BP over the disastrous oil spill in the gulf is ?un-American,? that ?sometimes accidents happen.? The mood on the right may be populist, but it?s a kind of populism that?s remarkably sympathetic to big corporations.
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You would think that by now, Krugman would have figured out that Obama is on the take too. Apparently he's still seeing unicorns and rainbows.
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You would think that by now, Krugman would have figured out that Obama is on the take too. Apparently he's still seeing unicorns and rainbows.
No. I think Obama fits in nicely with Krugman's one-world, zero-sum viewpoint.
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attack the messenger
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