PAUL KRUGMAN: “I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.”

UPDATE: Reader Brendon Carr writes: “Paul Krugman’s pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, the flim-flam man? That’s nice. But I have to say, I already gave up on Paul Krugman, and I suspect rather a lot of other people already have too. Ta-ta, Paul.”