On Krugman and Shark-Jumping

by Alegre
from DailyKos

I’m sure you’re all aware of the way Sen. Obama’s taken after Paul Krugman for critiquing and (to some extent) criticizing his healthcare reform for its lack of individual mandates. Krugman had this to say on Nov. 30th in Mandates and Mudslinging..

From the beginning, advocates of universal health care were troubled by the incompleteness of Barack Obama’s plan, which unlike those of his Democratic rivals wouldn’t cover everyone. But they were willing to cut Mr. Obama slack on the issue, assuming that in the end he would do the right thing.

Now, however, Mr. Obama is claiming that his plan’s weakness is actually a strength. What’s more, he’s doing the same thing in the health care debate he did when claiming that Social Security faces a "crisis" — attacking his rivals by echoing right-wing talking points.

I had a few things to say about this dust-up in my diary - Paul Krugman Weighs in on Mandates.

And now someone from our side is going after Krugman and basically calling him a liar by saying Krugman didn’t always have a problem with Obama’s omission of mandates in his healthcare reform plan?

Jerome Armstrong had this to say over on MyDD the other day – starting off by pointing out that Robert Gibbs (who’s on Obama’s staff) has a tendency to go after other dems around this point in an election cycle, and this year it’s no different. Sadly, Obama doesn’t seem to have a problem with that. He goes on by saying...

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