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Krugman decries the "venom" in the current Democratic campaign and writes that "most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama." The then offer three examples of attacks on Clinton, but attributes none of them to supporters of Obama. The first and the third -- Whitewater and David Shuster -- have nothing to do with supporters of Obama. The second -- Clinton's praise of LBJ -- he writes "was cast as some kind of outrageous denigration of Mr. King," not stating who did the casting.
He adds "that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality," comparing it to Bush's Operation Flight Suit. But he offers no evidence that Obama, or anyone on his campaign, is responsible for this, whereas Bush obviously was responsible for dressing up as he did. Furthermore, "seems ... close to becoming" does not even charge that it has become a cult of personality.
I don't understand how such an intelligent and level-headed person can be so irrational about Obama, when Obama may be the only hope we have of ending the war and the torture.
