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(297,503 posts)got me. Big Deal he said he would be considered a repub in the 80s.. especially on some issues. Do repubs support Gay Marriage, A Woman's Right to Choose.. ? The Supreme Court Justices Obama Nominated?
Krugman's analysis is not of a republican president..
In Defense of Obama
The Nobel Prize-winning economist, once one of the presidents most notable critics, on why Obama is a historic success
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Am I damning with faint praise? Not at all. This is what a successful presidency looks like. No president gets to do everything his supporters expected him to. FDR left behind a reformed nation, but one in which the wealthy retained a lot of power and privilege. On the other side, for all his anti-government rhetoric, Reagan left the core institutions of the New Deal and the Great Society in place. I don't care about the fact that Obama hasn't lived up to the golden dreams of 2008, and I care even less about his approval rating. I do care that he has, when all is said and done, achieved a lot. That is, as Joe Biden didn't quite say, a big deal.
The Rest of Paul Krugman's analysis of the Obama Presidency So Far..
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008