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Skwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 11:45 AM
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Idiot Krugman was a cheerleader for "free" trade.
Edited on Fri Apr-18-08 11:47 AM by Skwmom
Of course he is going to bash Obama and cheerleader for the free-trade (ship American jobs overseas while allowing for world-wide worker exploitation) Clintons.

He was critical of industrial policy (an approach Clinton later dropped under the influence of Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers) and argued in favor of free trade. (He writes on p. xxvi of his book The Great Unraveling that "I still have the angry letter Ralph Nader sent me when I criticized his attacks on globalization.")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman

Free trade - free from worker rights and protections and environmental regulation.

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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 12:14 PM
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1. Idiot Obama voted FOR the Peru Free Trade Act
The AFL-CIO opposed it but he still voted for it.
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 02:37 PM
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2. Ad hominem.
Even if he was a "cheerleader" for "free trade", it doesn't mean that what he says on other topics is false.

Nice try at distraction, though.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 02:43 PM
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3. Calling Paul Krugman an idiot
Edited on Fri Apr-18-08 02:44 PM by JoFerret
is bankrupt. Take today's op ed - what did you find inaccurate - specifically?
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