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To: Sam who wrote (44560)	12/17/2007 12:42:15 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 540820

Krugman is stuck in the Hillary camp where politics can never be anything more than counterpunching in the gutter with the other guy. When you look at how Obama put a leash on his staff going personal against other candidates, it tells us he could have a new message and a better kind of politics to offer an electorate that is sick of all the partisan squabbling.

To: Sam who wrote (44560)	12/17/2007 2:42:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 540820

And nothing Mr. Obama has said suggests that he appreciates the bitterness of the battles he will have to fight if he does become president, and tries to get anything done. My guess is that Krugman is right on this one, at least the portion that says the battles will be very bitter. Whether Obama appreciates that is hard for me to say. Were Obama to get the Dem nomination, I would not be surprised to see the Reps ratchet up every bit as vituperative a campaign against him as they will do should Clinton get it. I think the Gingrich DNA is now deeply embedded, the one that says if the Dems have a candidate who can clearly make a large difference, you have to demonize them. He said that both about Jim Wright as the new House Speaker and Clinton in 92. I don't think anything has seriously changed on that score since then. Except the Dems are now getting armed to do the same. Not much future for nonpartisan politics in all this I'm afraid.