In this morning’s NYT, columnist Paul Krugman* writes,
“I used to think that the major issues facing the next president would be how to get out of Iraq and what to do about health care. At this point, however, I suspect that the biggest problem for the next administration will be figuring out which parts of the financial system to bail out, how to pay the cleanup bills and how to explain what it’s doing to an angry public.”Hopefully things won’t get to that. But if they do, this country could face a downward spiral into incivility that few living today dare imagine. Does anyone really want to bet everything they have, including their own and their children’s and grandchildren’s futures, on a candidate whose greatest level of expertise in this area is as “one of the original foot-soldiers in the Reagan Revolution”?
* Krugman’s bona fides: He earned his PhD in economics at MIT, has taught the “dismal discipline” at Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Stanford before joining the staff at Princeton. Previously Krugman worked in the Reagan White House as a staff member on the president’s Council of Economic Advisors.
And it’s precisely “ALL THE ABOVE” that makes Senator Clinton’s highly outrageous and highly divisive below-the-belt antics so incredibly perilous. When she claims that only she and Senator McCain, not Senator Obama, have adequate experience to “answer the phone at 3:00 AM,” that all the Illinois senator has is a speech, do we really need to look far for the fodder that will compose GOP campaign ads?
Hillary’s pillorying, desperate and unrequited, of Senator Obama, worse than smoking several packs of cigarettes a day, could very well be dangerous for all America’s health. It very well could make smoother the path into the Oval Office of Senator John McCain; not a joke likely to leave anyone laughing.
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