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To: geode00 who wrote (263146)	5/1/2008 11:42:26 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Saying that Krugman writes political hit jobs is not ad-hominem. Ad-hominem would be using the fact that he is partisan or the fact the he writes such hit jobs, as an argument that some particular claim of his is wrong. He isn't always wrong (despite his predicting a recession just about every year since Bush became president), and when he is the fact that he is biased would not prove he is wrong, and is not an argument I have made to try to show how he is wrong. Observations, even negative observations, are not ad-hominem. And the particular observation in question has the advantage of being true.