Cave! Hic Dragones

Paul Krugman apparently does not like Barak Obama much. He goes out of his way to criticize him and praise Hilary Clinton. Both Obama and Clinton endorse the Dodd-Frank plan to expand FHA authority, so how can it be that Obama’s “proposals for aid to the victims of the current crisis, though significant, are less sweeping than Mrs. Clinton’s”? Krugman criticizes Obama for promoting middle-clas tax cuts (actually, a $1,000 tax credit), but Clinton has proposed a ream of similar credits but receives no similar criticism from Krugman for it. At the least, Krugman’s research on their plans is sloppy; at worst, he’s being intentionally deceptive.