Monday, January 14, 2008

A word of sanity from Paul Krugman

Sometimes it's useful to point out the obvious. Paul Krugman does so on his New York Times blog:
January 10, 2008, 2:30 pm
Tears

So I finally watched the now-famous clip of Hillary Clinton getting emotional — and my reaction was ...

That’s it?

That’s the 1 minute 51 seconds that launched a thousand commentaries?

I think this thing does call for some serious psychological analysis, not of the candidate — who looked and sounded like a normal person — but of the pundits who have turned Hillary into the object of their obsession.
Amen. --Jeff Weintraub