A few slices of kaya toast and a cup of black kopi always worked for me.

Don't be stupid. Given the way he's has repeatedly suuported her statements and policy, and repeatedly attacked and distorted Obama's rhetoric and record, it's clear who he supports.

He's a weasel who's arguing that because he never said "I support Hillary Clinton," you can't assume he does, even though there is a small mountain of evidence indicating that he strongly prefers her.

Also, this is like the fourth time he's railed against an alleged Obama ad, again using the weasel's excuse that "I don’t have a link to the ad itself, but apparently there’s an Obama ad citing something I said."

I think several of these "ads" have been discovered not to exist, so Krugman's guilty of the same "Some people say" tactics of Fox News and the rest of the Bush rightwing. Which, of course, further cements his suitability for membership in the Clinton camp.

Thanks for pointing out one of the few columns of this guy that I have ever agreed with. Like clinton, he is generally so predictably annoying that I simply bypass his columns. But today he earned his keep!

I've been pretty annoyed at how Krugman slavishly supported hillary for a while there. But clearly she's thrown Krugman under the bus! And she'll throw anyone under there - if it serves her purpose! Brooks' column made that clear too.

Credit where credit is due.

You folk just dont get it, do you? The only thing that's real in politics is the perception of the voters. Nothing else matters. How many votes will economists cast in November? Its not that Clinton's right and you're wrong. It's that the voters are drowning and no one else has bothered to toss them a lifeline.

It doesn't matter if all the economists that can fit on the head of a pin all sing their ethereal opinions. American workers and their families don't give a sh-t. They have a feeling that you and your colleagues are somehow associated with their shrinking paychecks and rising prices. After all, to these bitter, gun-toting, God-fearing folk you've been the ones working behind the scenes, managing things. YOU are perceived as incompetent elitists. By attacking Clinton's misguided proposal they perceive YOU to be making light of THEIR problems. Clinton's the only candidate who's gone out on a limb for THEM and they are rewarding her. The polls show that. Not one of them believes Clinton's idea is a good one but then no one else has stood up for them. Obama's offered lofty ideals with great style and gravitas but lofty ideals never pay for groceries, mortgages or gas. As sad as it is, Clinton's offered a solution. So, in good American tradition, THEY support the misguided woman with the heart of gold, who's offered her hand.

cuz USC has all the hot babes...

quoting bobo ???

that's gonna make you a lot of friends here

did you ever think that those people might be right ???

or do you have the same "industrial strength reality deflectors" that bobo uses ???

Well, I think that Professor Taplin has been a huge disappointment. He has a fabulous background and he's a teriffic writer, but he has come here for the sole purpose of writing anti-Hillary Clinton screeds, and he seems to try and fit in with the lowest common denominator of our readership. Professor Taplin is a tad fancier perhaps than the average Obama right or wronger at TPM Election Central, but that's where his posts belong, i.e. in the comment threads with the other folks nipping at Greg Sargent's ankles.

That said, I am really sorry to hear that the Professor is being harassed by e-mailers. That sort of conduct is absolutely unacceptable and, if it were me, I would ask TPM to assist the professor in tracking down anyone from this community who may have sent such an e-mail. There is no place for that kind of conduct and, as much as the Professor disappoints me, I feel for him if he is being harassed by people who don't agree with what he writes.

I donno what's the big deal. Hillary IS behaving like a cro magnon she-man to project "strength"
I now Brooksie is snobby republican worm, but a stopped clock is right twice a day and all...

Hillary is doing intimidation politics. And frankly I kinda like it, I wish more democrats would do it and I wish Obama would do it too. What worries me about Clinton is that she chooses to peddle falsehoods and bs with her intimidation instead of pushing the hard truths the way FDR or Lyndon Johnston did.
Why is she pushing bullshit with her political talent? That is the crux of the matter and it is THE REASON she is not already the nominee. She makes some really unexplainable political choices.