Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:16:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Golden
Subject: Krugman on Obama's supporters

To the editor:

Lately Prof. Krugman has been full of advice to Barack Obama's campaign as
to how it can unite the party.  For some reason, he inevitably ignores what
Clinton and her supporters can do that end.

For example, while Krugman is rightly critical of the excessive reaction to
Clinton's "assassination" gaffe, he is unperturbed by the misrepresentations
Clinton made during that very same interview - namely that in 1992 the
California primary was in "mid-June" (it was June 2) and that Bill Clinton
had not wrapped up the nomination before then (it was actually March when he
did so).

Let's do this: Clinton can stop repeating her shrill hyperbole about how she
is leading in the popular vote (she isn't) and how not seating Florida and
Michigan delegates is somehow akin to slavery or Jim Crow.  Maybe if that
happens, both sides will be able to tone the rhetoric down a notch.

Mitch Golden