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MORNING PRESS RELEASE WARS.
The Obama camp is celebrating the endorsemet of Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey. The Associated Press reports on a heretofore unknown demographic group!
Obama strategists hope that Casey can help their candidate make inroads with the white working-class men who are often referred to as "Casey Democrats." This group identifies with the brand of politics Casey and his late father, a former governor, practiced - liberal on economic issues but supportive of gun rights and opposed to abortion. (Obama favors some gun-control measures and backs abortion rights.)
Also from Obama this morning comes a link to this Bloomberg News article, which describes Clinton as facing "a widening credibility gap" on issues such as her role in the Bosnian and Irish peace processes and her opposition to NAFTA. Obama's Bill Burton is also hawking a New Hampshire Union-Leader editorial that gets irate over a Bill Clinton statement that questioned New Hampshire's early place in the primary process in order to assert that Florida and Michigan should have their votes counted. But one thing I really can't get worked up about in late March is how New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner feels.
Meanwhile, the Clinton folks are hawking Paul Krugman, who today compares Clinton's economic package favorably to both Obama's and John McCain's.
--Dana Goldstein
COMMENTS (11)
Which goes on to show how far in the anti-Obama deep end Krugman has gone to since Obama's speech of yesterday was literally an endorsement of everything Krugman had been arguing for in the past few weeks.
But somehow the fact Hillary wants Krugman's bete noire, Greenspan, to be the one "solving" the crisis only gets a shrug.
Posted by: Benjamin | March 28, 2008 10:39 AM
With reports this week that Obama's friend and mentor, Rev. Wright, referred to Italians as "garlic noses," I doubt that Obama will do all that well in PA.
Posted by: CMR | March 28, 2008 10:57 AM
Yes, in last week's column ("Taming the Beast") Krugman emphasized the importance of reforming and reinforcing the regulatory regime of the financial industry. This was center piece of Obama's Cooper Union address. Clinton never used the word "regulation" in her North Carolina speech. If she discussed finance industry regulations elsewhere Krugman doesn't mention that. Today's column does confirm his main point, though. You can learn a great deal about candidates in what they say and don't say in their policy statements. You can also learn a bit about the consistency and objectivity of certain pundits too.
Posted by: Reference Librarian | March 28, 2008 11:46 AM
CMR,
Until Obama said those words from his own mouth then what Wright said doesn't count.
Posted by: Micheline | March 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Micheline,
Yes, what Rev. Wright says does count, as far as Obama's judgement is concerned. Obama STILL refuses to disown a man who can't seem to give a sermon or write an article without slamming whites.
Posted by: cmr | March 28, 2008 11:59 AM
Krugman wants the government to bail everyone out so all his assets stay inflated. That's his only objective here. He's not that interested in market regulation if it means he can't toss the dice in the market casino, on top of his securely inflated assets. (So, let's not get too serious about that, okay?)
It stands in sharp contrast to his position on all those "free riders" who can't afford health insurance. Needless to say, the socialization of health costs works to his benefit as well. What it means to people footing the bill doesn't really matter.
He's all about his own interests dressed up as objective economic commentary or wise liberal management.
Don't buy his garbage without giving it a good whiff first.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 28, 2008 12:01 PM
CMR,
Can you honestly say or prove that Obama actually believes those things? There is something specious about the "controversy". I know some people who are anti-Muslim but does that make me anti-Muslim? Of course not. As for judgment, Obama's membership in this church has not lead to the death of 4,000 soldiers.
Posted by: Micheline | March 28, 2008 12:12 PM
CMR - How astute—and prophetic—was Obama on the Iraq war? He had foreseen the strategic blunder of the war and the disastrous consequences with presumably less information than Bush and his cabinet had for making the decision. I trust Obama’s judgment and intellect w/ respect to his pastor. Unequivocally, he has the intelligence to reject what is bad among what is good.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 28, 2008 1:52 PM
"refuses to disown a man who can't seem to give a sermon or write an article without slamming whites."
Well, probably because that is an egregiously false description of Reverend Wright.
Posted by: PaulB | March 28, 2008 2:15 PM
Dwspite of all that is said and done Rev Wright is going no where and will be wiht Obame untill November if he wins the nomination and it will destroy him. He is changing his talk depemding on the situation. He has a creditabity problem now. Mccain all the way
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