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BurtWorm

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Paul Krugman: The Resentment Strategy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/opinion/05krugman.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Op-Ed Columnist
The Resentment Strategy
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts — the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business — really keep a straight face while denouncing “Eastern elites”?

Can the former mayor of New York City, a man who, as USA Today put it, “marched in gay pride parades, dressed up in drag and lived temporarily with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu” — that was between his second and third marriages — really get away with saying that Barack Obama doesn’t think small towns are sufficiently “cosmopolitan”?

Can the vice-presidential candidate of a party that has controlled the White House, Congress or both for 26 of the past 28 years, a party that, Borg-like, assimilated much of the D.C. lobbying industry into itself — until Congress changed hands, high-paying lobbying jobs were reserved for loyal Republicans — really portray herself as running against the “Washington elite”?

Yes, they can.

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flpoljunkie

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Fri Sep-05-08 07:36 AM
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1. Yes, resentment--fear, smear, divide and conquer. It has worked well for them.

Will the American people figure them out this time? We cannot afford four more years of the same.

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MrMonk

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Fri Sep-05-08 07:39 AM
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2. "the raging rajas of resentment"

I like the sound of that.

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BurtWorm

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:40 AM
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3. kick

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WeDidIt

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:41 AM
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4. You lost me at "Paul Krugman"

I won't read anything written by that hack any longer.

Not even one word.

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joshcryer

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:48 AM
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6. Thanks for letting us know.

:eyes:

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salvorhardin

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:56 AM
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8. Can I ask why?

Just curious.

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BurtWorm

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Fri Sep-05-08 09:00 AM
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10. I'm guessing it's because he was hard on Obama during primary season.

And he remains somewhat hard on Obama--witness the mention of him in this column.

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salvorhardin

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Fri Sep-05-08 09:03 AM
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11. Ah, I see

Failed ideological purity.

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Bill McBlueState

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:59 AM
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9. I see you have your own resentment strategy. n/t

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Sparkly

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:47 AM
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5. That is spot ON!!

Thus Mr. Giuliani asserted that Wasilla, Alaska, isn’t “flashy enough” for Mr. Obama, who never said any such thing. And Ms. Palin asserted that Democrats “look down” on small-town mayors — again, without any evidence.

What the G.O.P. is selling, in other words, is the pure politics of resentment; you’re supposed to vote Republican to stick it to an elite that thinks it’s better than you.

It's amazing that anyone buys into this, but they do.

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joshcryer

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Fri Sep-05-08 08:49 AM
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7. There's a *reason* so many of us are going crazy here. It's freaking working.

It's so damn true.

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alcibiades_mystery

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Fri Sep-05-08 09:04 AM
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12. When you want Obama to lose, any GOP tactic seems to be working

Edited on Fri Sep-05-08 09:04 AM by alcibiades_mystery

Right?

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