Paul Krugman Is Obviously A Racist

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Because that’s what anyone who criticizes President Obama is, right?

Krugman suffered from perhaps the second or third worst case of Bush Derangement Syndrome at the New York Times during the past eight years. That’s a very relative scale, however. The mildest case over there would have been enough to require hospitalization in the real world.

It is, of course, heresy to scrutinize Barack Obama in the Opinion section of the New York Times. Krugman must have some sort of immunity because he has a Nobel Prize and street cred as a full-blown left-of-Castro progressive. How long he’ll be allowed to question the purest-intentioned and smartest of all presidents in the history of politics EVER remains to be seen.

Right now he’s not playing nice at all.

It’s as if the president were determined to confirm the growing perception that he and his economic team are out of touch

This isn’t one of us bitter-clinger blogger crazies stating the obvious now, it’s one of the faithful. Still, the Thoughtful President responded with his now familiar “I know you are but what am I?” pout:

at a press conference, the president, with a slight note of irritation in his voice, invited Krugman (pronounced with an “oo,” not an “uh” sound) to offer a better plan for fixing the banking system.

Rather than thoughtfully explaining his ideas and proposals, Obama now regularly resorts to “You got any better ideas?” It is, to use an old political science label, completely chickens**t.

The president and his people seem unwilling, or unable, to accept the fact that they are in charge now. Their policies are going to have to stand on their own merits all the while facing criticism. The fact that Obama had to face so little of it during the campaign is beginning to show. He is more likely to have a snit than actually explain himself.

The “I don’t have to explain my plans because you haven’t offered any alternate plans” charade he keeps engaging in is more reminiscent of a sleep-deprived fourth grader than brilliant, serious world leader.

Again, this can all be filed under “Not Ready For The Gig”. The fairytale, free pass campaign is over and the administration has to function on this planet now. All but the most hardcore Obamabots will eventually begin to notice if the president, his press secretary and others can only respond with snotty, childish remarks.

And they should be very worried that there’s already been a honeymoon wrecking defector at the New York Times.