“Paul Krugman Wonders Where The President He Thought He Was Voting For Went To,” Doug Mataconis writes at Outside the Beltway:
Krugman seems to think that he voted for Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman in November 2008 rather than Barack Obama. This, I suppose, is the problem with hooking your trailer onto a guy who was only in the United States Senate for a year and a half before he started running for President. He didn’t have much of a record, so its easy for him to convince people that he is whatever they want him to be. The problem with that, of course, is that once you win, you have to actually perform and the rose colored glasses start coming off. This isn’t Obama’s fault as much as it is an indictment of the naivete of supposedly smart people like Krugman.
Krugman is a self-admitted victim of the liberal cocoon — and in 2008, every paper, every Website, every blog he read was telling him that Obama was the second coming of America’s most transformative and respected presidents — from Lincoln to FDR to Truman to JFK. After all, it’s not like the MSM invents fantasies out of whole cloth, does it?
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